Industrial demobilization

That women have been an undoubted success in this branch of industry, is proved by the fact that notwithstanding so many of the men (who are now demobilized) have resumed duty, a large proportion of the women who desired to stay on have retained their positions to the present time.33... 

With the coming of peace in November 1918, the industrial and collegiate laboratories assisting the CWS dropped war projects and returned to their normal scientific research. At American University the volume of research subsided as the staff of more than twelve hundred technical men, among whom were many of the finest chemists in the United States, dwindled away until only a handful were left. The dismemberment of the service proceeded so rapidly that by 30 June 1919, 97 percent of its military personnel had been demobilized. In a short time the CWS would have disappeared completely had not Congress on 11 July 1919 ordered the War Department to retain the service as an independent branch of the Army for another year. Under the National Defense Act of 1920 the CWS became a permanent branch of the Army. ... 

On 27 October 1943 the ASF directed the technical services to submit by 20 December 1943, at least in skeleton form, plans for partial demobilization in Period I. Headquarters, ASF, furnished a guide in the form of a control chart listing operations considered necessary to accomplish demobilization objectives. These operations included the disposition of industrial facilities, the curtailment of industrial construction, and the disposition of supplies. After submitting the skeleton the CWS added flesh... 

Minutes Interdepartmental Group on Materiel Demobilization Planning, Dir of Industrial Demobilization ASF. (2) Brig Gen W. F. Tompkins address before Army Industrial College, 5 Jan... 

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