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Presidential Agency: Owmr, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion

Presidential Agency: Owmr, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion

By Herman Miles Somers

Harvard University Press, 1950, 238 pp

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Presidential Agency: Owmr, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion

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By Herman Miles Somers

Harvard University Press, 1950, 238 pp

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A pioneering examination of the World War II experience with that most critical problem, national economic mobilization.

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