"the whole nine yards" 1942

[Mark Mandel]

Good grief!

m a m

On 7/9/07, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
> 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.
> ....
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
>
>

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