Educational Order Program

The CWS took steps, under the guidance of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War, to implement the educational order legislation enacted by Congress in June 1938. This legislation had as its objective the training of selected industrial concerns in the manufacture of a half-dozen Army items, one of which was the gas mask. The first educational order contract was written by the Chemical Warfare Service in late 1939 and several more were awarded in 1940 and 1941. The educational order program was the first real step, as far as the CWS was concerned, in the direction of industrial mobilization in the emergency period. 

For more details on the educational order program in the CWS, see Brophy, Miles, and Cochrane, From Laboratory to Field. 

The activities of the emergency period led to an increase in the number of employees in the Chief s office. About a dozen civilians were added to the rolls as a result of the educational order program. Several of these were engineers and the remainder were clerk-stenographers. During 1940 and... 

The fact was that the planners in the CWS had been discussing the educational order programs for a number of years and had well formulated ideas by the time the legislation was finally enacted. Those manufactur-... 

If the educational order program jjermitted the CWS to take the first faltering step in an accelerated procurement program in the emergency... 

AG Memo for Record on CWS Educational Order Program, 8 May 41. CWS 314.7 Educational Order Program File. 

Table 4—CWS Educational Orders Program, FY 1939, 1940 1941 Summary OF Awards...

Source All the data in this chart, with the exception of the Goodyear Tire A Rubber Co. assembly contract, were taken from a study prepared by the Purchase Policies Branch, OC CWS, in 1945, entitled Analysis of Chemical Warfare Service Pricing Record World War II, p. 34. CWS 314.7 Educational Order Program File. This study makes no reference to the Goodyear assembly o>ntract, which was the first contract under the F.ducational Order Program. The data on this ntract were obtained in 1949 in a file of the Procurement Agency, Army Chemical Center. 

Both the CWS and the contractors assembling gas masks had trouble procuring components. Under the educational order program the CWS had... 

But if one gas mask program was marked for conclusion after war came, another was suddenly and vigorously resuscitated. The period of educational orders had witnessed a small-scale trial production program for noncombatant gas masks. In 1940 the Chemical Warfare Service selected five firms, none of them experienced in such items, and contracted to set up complete noncombatant mask production lines in each for turning out a single educational order of gas masks. On the basis of this experience... 

Undertake an Intensive Educational Program. A program of information on health benefits derived from the wise use of pesticides and the health hazards associated with their misuse is greatly needed. The educational facilities of the American Medical Association, consisting of ten professional journals and the lay publication, Today s Health, will be available to the committee. In addition, the inquiry service which is conducted by the various departments, councils, and bureaus of the American Medical Association will be coordinated in order that letters of committee interest will receive their mutual attention. 

PN regimens for adults can be based on formulas (Fig. 60-2), computer programs, or standardized order forms. Order forms are popular because they help educate practitioners and foster cost-efficient nutrition support by minimizing errors in ordering, compounding, and administering. 

In order to produce the expected and desired results, programs and strategies must be devised for the development and application of chemistry, and must involve explicit support from national governments to networked organizations that are involved in research, educational/academic, and industrial systems. This interaction is fundamental to the production of long-term and durable benefits. 

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