Surplus Property Board

Another important outcome of the Baruch-Hancock Report was the enactment of the Surplus Property Act of 3 October 1S>44. This act created a Surplus Property Board of three members. Appointments to the new board were completed in January 1945 and the board s regvdations were made available to the ASF in April. In September the board was abolished and a single administrator appointed. ... 

While the CWS conducted its surplus property functions under the general supervision of Headquarters, ASF, it also had direct contacts with the Surplus Property Board and later the Surplus Property Administration. The Property Disposal Branch in the chiefs office formulated pro-... 

On 1 October 1945 the Surplus Property Administration took over the functions of the Surplus Property Board. On 31 January 1946 the President under Executive Order 9689 transferred the hmetions of the Surplus Property Administrator to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the War Assets Corporation. This same Executive Order provided that as of 25 March 1946 a War Assets Corporation be set up to handle all surplus property functions. 

Among the most important of property disposal procedures was the compiling of complete descriptions of each individual item to be disposed of. It was not possible, for example, to sell a gas mask production line as such. Instead, a complete description of every item going into that line, such as motors and sewing machines, had to be made. After the description was drawn up it was circulated to likely military branches, such as the Ordnance Department or the Corps of Engineers. If these had no use for the item and it was less than 100 in value it could be sold to a war contractor. In September 1944 an innovation was introduced in that items for sale were disposed of through the service command, which had more facilities for effective sales. The items that were not sold were declared surplus to the Surplus Property Board and later the Surplus Property Administration. ... 

Diluting the resin with a surplus of water causes precipitation of parts of the resin. These parts preferably contain the higher molar mass molecules of the resin and their relative proportion increases at higher degrees of condensation [22]. Information on correlations between the molar mass distribution (degree of condensation) and mechanical and hygroscopic properties of the boards produced, however, is rather rare and often equivocal [7,19,27 29]. 

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