"the whole nine yards" 1942 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Don't get us all excited like that.

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> Investigation of the National Defense Program: Hearings
> Before a Special Committee Investigating the National Defense
> Program, By United States Congress.
> Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense
> Program, part 12, U.S. Government Printing Office,
> Washington,1942, page 5192.
> (Google Books provided the title and page number but gave no
> text; WorldCat indicated the page was in pt. 12; the rest is
> from the paper publication.)
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> Senators and Admirals on Thursday April 23, 1942 were
> discussing a rapid increase in construction of Liberty ships.
> Senator Harry S. Truman was chairman.
>
> [page 5191]
> ....
> Senator [Harold H.] BURTON....therefore you see a possibility
> of actually increasing the percentage of gain by 50 percent
> in these yards as a whole.
> Admiral [Howard L.] VICKERY. In the yards as a whole.
> Senator BURTON. And the yards that are below 12 percent now
> there would be more than a 50-percent gain because they are
> below that average at this time?
> [page 5292]
> Admiral VICKERY. Yes, sir.
> Senator BURTON. So that you have involved here a tremendous
> expansion in production, and you are shooting for a
> 50-percent increase or more than a 50-percent increase in
> seven out of nine plants.
> Admiral VICKERY. That is right, and they have got to make
> that to hit the schedules.
> Admiral [Emory S.] LAND. You have to increase from 7.72 to 12
> for the average at the bottom of that fifth column, for the
> whole nine yards.
> Senator BURTON. That is pretty nearly twice.
> Admiral VICKERY. That is what we have got to do.
> Admiral LAND. That is what we are up against here, and they
> aren't up against anything that the rest of the United States
> and all its armed forces are up against.
> ....
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> Stephen Goranson
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