McNair Paper Number 50, Chapter 3, Notes, August 1996

1. Marvin A. Kreidberg and Merton G. Henry, History of Military Mobilization in the United States Army, 1775-1945 (Washington, DC: Headquarters, U.S. Army, 1955), 497-498.

2. Terrence J., Gough, "Origins of the Army Industrial College: Military Business Tensions After World War I," Armed Forces & Society 17, no. 2 (Winter, 1991): 270-271.

3. Gough, "Soldiers, Businessmen, And US Industrial Mobilization," 70. Gough cites works published by Burns and Davis. His view is supported by Joanne E. Johnson, "The Army Industrial College and Mobilization Planning Between the Wars," unpublished executive research paper (Washington, DC: Industrial College of the Armed Forces), 1-43. Johnson used archival sources often different from Gough's to come to the same conclusion.

4. The former quote was from the Washington News, 1 November 1938, and the latter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, 5 May 1939; both are cited in Johnson, 20-21. This demonstrates that the belief that the War Department and soldiers in it would run industry permeates the thinking throughout the period.

5. Gough, ASoldiers, Businessmen and US Industrial Mobilization,A 72.

6. Johnson, 1-43. Donald Nelson wrote that the Industrial College produced a Areserve of practical experience and research,A but that it was not used by the early groups Roosevelt appointed to manage industrial mobilization (Donald M Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946), 92).