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Industrial Mobilization Plan covering personnel procurement for the armed forces.  Instead, there was included a statement to the effect that a selective service system was under consideration to be used in case the character of a future war should warrant it. [[footnote]]10  Fortunately, the Selective Service Act was passed in 1940, and the armed forces were assured qualified personnel in adequate numbers.  Unfortunately, however, the operation of Selective Service alone, without a complementary provision for industry, created almost insuperable problems for industry and was almost certain to prevent the development of any form of military-economic balance.  This fact is best expressed, perhaps by Mr. J. Carlton Ward: [[footnote]] 11 

"....It brings out one of the greatest headaches of industrial mobilization, selective service.  Anyone today engaged in scientific manufacturing activities is faced with a drastic shortage of engineers and technicians.  That shortage, in turn, was caused by a deficient selective service policy in World War II.  We, of all the nations in the world, attempted to put to work a concept which is unworkable; that is, that we are all like the rest of us and therefore, no line should be drawn as to who carries a gun......So what did we do?  We took gentlemen studying electronics and taught them how to march in close-order formation, and we took milk-wagon delivers and put them in electronics schools.  We took pre-medical and pre-dental students and students partly through their dental and medical 

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[[footnote]]10 R.F. Layton, [[underline]] Manpower Resources of the U.S., [[/underline]], p.2.

[[footnote]]11 J.C. Ward, [[underline]] Recommendation for Adequate Industrial Planning, [[/underline]] p. 11f.

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