Abstract
C ONCENTRATION of the production of essential civilian goods in a few plants in each industry is a step which a nation at war may be forced to take when the need for resources becomes so critical that wasteful uses cannot be tolerated. When the War Production Board announced on July 23, I942, that it had approved the principle of concentration of production as a means of furthering the war effort,2 it was adopting a policy which has played an important role in the British war production program since March, I94I. In Great Britain some fifty industries had already been concentrated into nucleus plants by the middle of I942, and about 250,000 workers and over 55,ooo,ooo square feet of floor space had been released for other purposes.3 In this country, on the other
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