Speeding Up the Program

As the publication program began to gain momentum, there appeared danger that it might bog down unless something was done to reduce the excessive time lapse between the initial approval and the final distribution of a printed pamphlet. In the case of some CWS manuals, the interval ran to as much as eight months. 

This time was consumed in three ways first, in writing and illustrating  

Although the prewar list of publications was small, it was possible for the individual officer to be acquainted with all manuals relating to chemical 

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Various options are available to further speed-up the program, but possibly at the expense of alignment sensitivity. For example, it is possible to reduce the maximum possible length of the fragments that the program uses to compose output alignments. 

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