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Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards: Records of the President's Air Policy Commission (Record Group 220)

1947-1948

[Administrative Information | Folder Title List]

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

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Processed by: Jerry N. Ness (1961); David Clark (2012).

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

Box 1

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: General Administration

  • General
  • Production board for work control
  • Budget and finance
  • Minutes of meetings
  • Directories

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Organization

  • Appointment of Commission
  • Biographical material
  • White House social list
  • Organization charts
  • Background information

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Personnel

  • General
  • Data re staff possibilities: General (A-Z)
  • Data re staff possibilities: Consultants (A-Z)
  • Staff personnel files (A-Z)
  • Security investigations

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Hearings Before the Commission

  • General
  • Schedules: Daily, with weekly recap
  • Schedules: Public hearings
  • Schedules: Executive sessions
  • Reporting service

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Records and Reference Service

  • Security of information
  • Access to records
  • Information notebooks
  • Disposition

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Reference Material

  • Material in Commission library
  • Classified material borrowed from other agencies

Box 2

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Publicity re Commission

  • Press Conference
  • News clippings (July & August 1947)
  • News clippings (September 1947)
  • News clippings (October 1947)
  • News clippings (November 1947)
  • News clippings (December 1947)
  • Pictures of Commission
  • Broadcast

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Relations with other agencies

  • General

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: Relations with and information re Congressional Aviation Policy Board

  • General
  • Organization and background
  • Staff memoranda
  • Hearings
  • Reports

Box 3

PUBLIC HEARINGS

  • September 15: Air Transport Association: Land, E.S., et. al. [1 of 2]
  • September 15: Air Transport Association: Land, E.S., et. al. [1 of 2]
  • September 16: American Airlines: - Smith, C. R.
  • September 16: American Overseas Airlines: - Slater, John

Box 4

  • September 16: Chicago and Southern Airlines: - Putnam, Carleton
  • September 17: Braniff Airways, Inc.: - Braniff, T.E.
  • September 17: Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke, & Whiteside: - Brophy, Gerald
  • September 17: Commerce Department: - Alison, John R.
  • September 17: Eastern Air Lines: - Rickenbacker, E.V.
  • September 17: Capital Airlines: - Monro, C. Bedell
  • September 17: Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.: - Cohu, La Motte T.
  • September 22: Air Cargo, Inc.: - Glass, Fred M.
  • September 22: Air Freight Forwarder Assn.: - Dean, Allen

Box 5

  • September 22: Council of Local Service Airlines: - Garside, Joseph
  • September 22: Independent Airfreight Assn.: - Slick, Earl
  • September 23: Burden, W.A.M. (former Assistant Secretary of Commerce)
  • September 23: International Civil Aviation Organization: - Kuter, Laurence S., Maj. Gen.
  • September 23: National Aviation Trades Assn.: - Howard, Beverly, et. al.
  • September 23: United Air Lines, Inc.: - Patterson, W. A.
  • September 24: Aeronautical Radio, Inc.: - Rentzel, D. W.

Box 6

  • September 24: Atlantic Airlines, Inc.: - Solomon, S. J.
  • September 24: Independent Air Carriers Conference: -- Klak, John J.
  • September 24: Pacific Overseas Airlines: - Brent, Joseph
  • September 24: Sea-Air Committee: - Ford, Tirey L.
  • September 29: Aircraft Industries Assn.: - Echols, Oliver P.

Box 7

  • September 29: Bell Aircraft Corp.: - Bell, Lawrence D.
  • September 29: Cessna Aircraft Co.: - Wallace, Dwane L.
  • September 29: Curtiss-Wright Corp.: Richardson, L.B., Adm.
  • September 29: Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.: - Ward, J. Carleton, Jr.
  • September 29: Republic Aircraft Corp.: - Peale, Mundy I.
  • September 29: Sikorsky Aircraft Div., United Aircraft: - Sikorsky Igor I.
  • September 30: Allison Division, General Motors Corp: - Hazen, Ronald M.
  • September 30: Bendix Aviation Corp.: - Ferguson, Malcolm P.
  • September 30: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.: - Lombard, Albert E.

Box 8

  • September 30: Boeing Aircraft Co.: - Allen, William M.
  • September 30: Curtiss-Wright Corp.: - Vaughan, Guy W.
  • September 30: Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: - Hunt, Ralph V.
  • September 30: Martin, Glenn L., Co.: - Martin, Glenn L.
  • September 30: North American Aviation, Inc.: - Kindleberger, James H.
  • September 30: Northrop Aircraft, Inc.: - Northrop, John K.
  • September 30: United Aircraft Corp.: - Horner, Horace Mansfield

Box 9

  • October 1: Engineering and Research Corp.: - Berliner, Henry A.
  • October 1: Continental, Inc.,: - Fulton, Robert E., Jr.
  • October 1: Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.:-Swirbul, Leon A.
  • October 1: Murray, Roger F. (Bankers Trust Co., N.Y.)
  • October 1: Pan American Airways System: - Trippe, Juan
  • October 2: Pan American - Grace Airways, Inc.: - Roig, Harold J.
  • October 14: Aircraft Industries Assn.: - Echols, Oliver P., Maj. Gen.
  • October 14: Allison Div., - General Motors Corp.: - Clevering, Richard B.
  • October 14: Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp.: - Ward, J. Carleton, Jr.

Box 10

  • October 14: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.: - Gross, Robert E.
  • October 14: Piasecki Helicopter Corp.: - Piasecki, F.N.
  • October 14: Rosenheim, H. H. (formerly of Army Air Force)
  • October 14: Sperry Gyroscope Co.: - Bassett, Preston R.
  • October 15: Aviation Maintenance Corp.: - Stunkel, Reagan C.
  • October 15: Cal-Aero Technical Institute: - Mosley, C.C.
  • October 15: U.S. Flying Boats: - Schildhauer, G.H., Capt
  • October 15: Weber Showcase & Fixture Co.: - Buckley, Charles B.

Box 11

  • October 20: Civil Aeronautics Administration: - Wright, T.P. [1 of 6]
  • October 20: Civil Aeronautics Administration: - Wright, T.P. [2 of 6]
  • October 20: Civil Aeronautics Administration: - Wright, T.P. [3 of 6]
  • October 20: Civil Aeronautics Administration: - Wright, T.P. [4 of 6]
  • October 20: Civil Aeronautics Administration: - Wright, T.P. [5 of 6]
  • October 20: Civil Aeronautics Administration: - Wright, T.P. [6 of 6]

Box 12

  • October 20: National Assn. of State Aviation Officials: - Cornish, C.F., et al.
  • October 20: Port of New York Authority: Buckley, James C.
  • October 20: Port of New York Authority: Law, Hervey
  • October 21: Air Reserve Assn. of U.S.: - Lewis, William C.
  • October 21: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe R.R.: - Gurley, F.G.
  • October 21: Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: - Raymond, A.E.
  • October 21: National Aeronautics Assn.: - Pogue, L. Welch

Box 13

  • October 27: Civil Aeronautics Board: - Landis, James M., et al. [1 of 3]
  • October 27: Civil Aeronautics Board: - Landis, James M., et al. [2 of 3]
  • October 27: Civil Aeronautics Board: - Landis, James M., et al. [3 of 3]
  • October 27: Post Office Department: - Aiken, Paul, et al

Box 14

  • October 28: Minnesota, University of: - Akerman, John D.
  • October 28: Association of American Railroads: - Fletcher, R.V., Judge
  • October 28: Boston and Maine Railroad: - Glacey, George F.
  • October 28: Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad CO., - James, Russell B.
  • October 28: Illinois Central Railroad: - Webb, R.A.
  • October 28: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: - Dryden, Hugh L., Dr.
  • October 28: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Victory, John F.
  • October 28: Railway Express Agency, Inc: - Merritt, K.N.
  • October 28: Research and Development Board: - Bush, Vannevar, Dr.
  • October 29: De Florez Engineering Co.: - De Florez, Louis
  • October 29: Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: - Douglas, Donald W.

Box 15

  • October 29: Western Council of Local Service Airlines: - Hicks, Gwin, et al
  • October 29: Willis Air Service, Inc.: - Willis, Chas. F., Jr.
  • October 30: Goodyear Aircraft Corp.: - Litchfield, Paul W., et al
  • October 30: Rosehdahl, C.E. -(Vice Admiral, USN (Ret)
  • November 11: Army, U.S.: - Eisenhower, Dwight, Gen.
  • November 11: Brownell, George A. - (Brig. Gen., USA (Ret))
  • November 12: Navy, U.S.: - Nimitz, Chester W., Adm.
  • November 17: Air Force, U.S.: - Spaatz, Carl, Gen.
  • November 17: Columbia University: - Berle, Adolph A.
  • November 18: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: - Compton, Karl T.
  • November 18: Patterson, Robert P. (formerly Assistant Secretary of War)

Box 16

  • November 24: American Airlines: - Damon, Ralph S. November 24: United Steelworkers of America: - McDonald, David
  • November 28: Nelson, Donald M. (formerly of W.P.B.)
  • November 28: Air Force, Department of: - Symington, W. Stuart
  • November 28: Commerce Department: - Harriman, W. Averell
  • December 1: de Seversky, Alexander P. (as an individual)
  • December 1: National Air Council: - Davison, F. Trubee
  • December 1: State Department: - Lovett, Robert A.

Box 17

  • December 2: Airline Pilots Assn.: - Behncke, David L.
  • December 2: Army, Department of the: Royall, Kenneth C.
  • December 2: Navy, Department of the: - Sullivan, John L.
  • December 3: Gates, Artemus L. (formerly Assistant Secretary of Navy)
  • December 3: Defense, Secretary of: - Forrestal, James

EXECUTIVE SESSIONS, INFORMAL MEETINGS, AND BRIEFS AND STATEMENTS FILED WITHOUT HEARING

  • August 18: Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • August 19: Lovett, Robert (Under Secretary of State): Symington, Stuart (Secretary of Air Force Dept): Vandenberg, Gen. (Army Air Force)
  • August 22: Aircraft Industries Assn. - Echols, Oliver P.
  • September 8: Harriman, W. Averell (Secretary of Commerce)
  • September 8: Norton, Garrison (as Chairman, Air Coordinating Committee)
  • September 8: Norton, Garrison (as Assistant Secretary of State

Box 18

  • September 8: Foster, William C. (Under Secretary of Commerce); Alison, John (Assistant Secretary of Commerce)
  • September 8: Landis, James M.; Ryan, Oswald; Lee, Josh (Civil Aeronautics Board)
  • September 9: Webb, James E. (Director, Bureau of the Budget)
  • September 9: Brown, John Nicholas (Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air)
  • September 9: Symington, W. Stuart
  • September 16: Air Force, Army - Spaatz, General, et al
  • September 17: Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department
  • September 17: Northwest Airlines, Inc. - Hunter Croil
  • September 18: Harper, Robert W. (Maj. Gen., Air Transport Command, U.S. Army)
  • September 18: Reeves, J.W., Jr. (Rear Adm., Naval Air Transport Service)
  • September 18: Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department
  • September 25: United Aircraft Corp. - Rentschler, Frederick B.
  • September 25: Army Air Force - re Procurement
  • September 29: Stanford Research Institute
  • September 30: Central Intelligence Group
  • October 1: Gulick, Luther (Institute of Public Admn.)
  • October 3: Veterans of Foreign Wars
  • October 6: Brookings Institution - Meriam, Lewis, et al
  • October 7: Brownlow, Louis (Public Adm. Clearing House)
  • October 8: Flavin, Thomas J. (Judicial Officer, Dept of Agriculture)
  • October 9: Coy, Wayne (WINX Broadcasting Co.)

Box 19

  • October 10: Budget, Bureau of the Jones, J. Weldon, et al
  • October 10: David, Paul (International Civil Aviation Organization)
  • October 10: Pois, Joseph (Signode Steel Strapping Co.)
  • October 13: Army, U.S.- Generals Eisenhower, Devers and Quesada
  • October 14: Harris, Luke
  • October 15: Betts, Allan W. (Executive Research)
  • October 16: Tibbitts, Kennard W. (National Credit Office, Inc.)
  • October 16: Damon, Ralph (as an individual)
  • October 16: Emmerich, Herbert (Public Administration Clearing House)
  • October 20: Mooney, James D.
  • October 20: Wright, T.P. (as an individual)
  • October 20: Davis, Paul R. (Gulf Airways, Inc.)
  • October 21: National Association of State Aviation Officials - Lazarus, William C., et al
  • October 21: Gallery, D.V., Admiral (Navy Department)
  • October 23: Interstate Commerce Commission - Aitchison, Clyde B.
  • October 23: Appleby, Paul H. (Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship, Syracuse University)
  • October 23: Dubuque, Jean H.
  • October 23: U.S. Maritime Commission - Smith, W. W., Vice Admiral
  • October 23: Nelson, Donald
  • October 23: Federal Communications Commission - Denny, Chas. R., Jr., et. al
  • October 24: Air Force, U.S. - Training Division
  • October 24: Navy Department - Naval Air Training - Moss, J.B., Capt.
  • October 27: Air Force, U.S. - Craigie, William, Maj. Gen., and Gillespie, J.M., Col.
  • October 27: Callery, Francis
  • October 23: Douglas Aircraft Co. (re Rand Project)

Box 20

  • October 28: Bureau of Aeronautics - Navy Department, Pride, A.M., Rear Admiral
  • October 29: Skytrain Airways, Inc. - David, Roy B.
  • October 30: Pogue, L. Welch (former Chairman, CAB)
  • October 15: Pennsylvania Aircraft Syndicate, Ltd. - Wilford, E. Burke
  • November 1: Aircraft Industries Assn. - Personal - Aircraft Council - Geuting, Joseph T., Jr.
  • November 3: Forrestal, James (Secretary of Defense)
  • November 5: Saunders, George P.
  • November 5: Lee, Paul F., Rear Admiral (Chief of Naval Research)
  • November 10: Air Force, U.S. - McConnell, J.P., Brig. Gen.
  • November 11: Hargraves, Thomas J. (Chairman, Munitions Board) Hill, Arthur M. (Chairman, National Security Resources Board)
  • November 12: Bryan, Leslie A. (National Assn. of University Administrators of Aviation Education)
  • November 13: Marshall, George C. (Secretary of State)
  • November 14: MacArthur, Douglas, General
  • November 19: Bryant, Leland A.
  • November 19: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • November 26: Payne, John Howard
  • December 1: Baldwin, Hanson (New York Times)
  • December 9: Air Force, U.S. - Rawlings, E.W., Lt. Gen
  • December 16: Krug, Julius A. (Secretary of Interior)
  • December 17: Marvin, Langdon, P., Jr.
  • December 19: Ehle, Harry A., (International Resistance Co.)
  • December 22: Galvin, Paul (Motorola, Inc.)

Box 21

TRIPS TAKEN BY THE COMMISSION, AND DATA AND COMMENT SUBMITTED THROUGH CORRESPONDENCE (WITHOUT HEARINGS): Trips taken by Commission

  • Visit to Langley Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - 8/26/47
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Allison Division, General Motors
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Boeing Aircraft Co.
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Ames Laboratory, NACA
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Cessna Aircraft Co.
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Douglas Aircraft Co.
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Hughes Aircraft Co.
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Ryan Aeronautical Co.
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Wright Field, U.S. Air Force
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: United Helicopters, Inc.
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Wichita
  • West Coast Trip to manufacturing plants- 10/5 to 10/12/47: Northrop Aircraft, Inc.
  • Visit to Norfolk to board Aircraft Carrier MIDWAY - 10/22/46
  • East Coast Trip to visit manufacturing plants- 11/6/47

Box 22

TRIPS TAKEN BY THE COMMISSION, AND DATA AND COMMENT SUBMITTED THROUGH CORRESPONDENCE (WITHOUT HEARINGS): Correspondence with Government Officials: private organizations and persons

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R

Box 23

  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W

GENERAL BACKGROUND MATERIAL

  • Extracts from Publications
  • "Aviation Week"
  • From various publications, illustrating extent to which national defense information has been published
  • Digests of briefs and testimony

Box 24

  • Digest of Public Discussions, September-December 1947: Part 1
  • Digest of Public Discussions, September-December 1947: Part 2
  • Digest of Public Discussions, September-December 1947: Part 3
  • Aeronautical charts

AVIATION IN GENERAL AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY: General and Miscellaneous

  • Air Coordination Committee statement of certain policies re aviation
  • Budget Bureau staff report on civil aviation and national defense
  • Morrow and Howell Boards reports- analysis by Commission staff

AVIATION IN GENERAL AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY: National defense-general

  • Miscellaneous articles, reports, statements
  • Legislation
  • Budget and finance: data
  • Executive review of national defense budget

Box 25

  • Procurement: Estimated requirements
  • Procurement authorization and appropriation procedures (5-year program)
  • Disposition of surplus aircraft

AVIATION IN GENERAL AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY: National defense - organization

  • General
  • National Security Resources Board
  • Aeronautical Board
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • War Department in general
  • Army Air Force
  • Air transport services
  • Air transport maintenance
  • Navy, U.S.

Box 26

AVIATION IN GENERAL AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY: National defense - security

  • Information re Russian activities
  • Security against the atomic bomb

AVIATION IN GENERAL AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY: Aviation in general

  • Training
  • Safety
  • Airports, airways, traffic control, and landing aids

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: General and miscellaneous

  • Sources of information (staff memorandum)
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Compiled statistics and charts (3 loose-leaf books)
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Procurement levels data (1 loose-leaf book)
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Recommendations for industry section
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Industry backlogs (replies to industry questionnaire)
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Industry data (replies to McCone questionnaire)
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Aircraft Industry Planning and the High Cost of Planes
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Navy Department data
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Air Force data

Box 27

  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Budget Bureau data
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Reports
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Correspondence
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Recommendations data
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Industry section- miscellaneous
  • H. E. Weihmiller Files: Miscellaneous important data (including data from military sources)
  • Hearings, data re

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: Industry

  • Industry in General
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry in Great Britain
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry: Finance-General
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry: Operation expense
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry: Aircraft component expense
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry: Profit limitation
  • Volume of business and statistics
  • Patents

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: Industrial mobilization

  • General
  • Air Coordinating Committee's report of October 22, 1945
  • Army Air Force "Report No. 530" on Industrial Preparedness in the Aircraft Industry
  • Army Air Force - Wright Field - Industrial Planning Project

Box 28

  • Armed Forces Industrial College - Industrial Mobilization Course
  • Army Air Force - Wright Field - Minutes of Conference on Industrial Mobilization Planning, October 20-21, 1947
  • Aircraft Production Board - Report to President, July 1945, and President's letter to Secretary of War, August 8, 1945
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AVIATION: Research and Development
  • General
  • Definition
  • Bibliography
  • In foreign countries: General
  • In foreign countries: England
  • In foreign countries: France
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AVIATION: Research and development agencies
  • Finance
  • Air Force research agencies
  • Navy - Bureau of Aeronautics
  • Civil Aeronautics Administration
  • Bureau of Standards
  • United Aircraft Corporation
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AVIATION: Aircraft and related instruments
  • Description and characteristics of aircraft
  • Produceability
  • Lighter-than-air craft
  • Guided missiles
  • Nuclear propulsion of aircraft
  • Wind tunnels
  • Transport aircraft
  • Personal aircraft
  • Airfreight aircraft
CIVIL AVIATION

Box 29

  • General
  • Statistics
  • Finance
  • Government regulation: General
  • Government regulation: Procedures
  • Government regulation: routes
  • Canada
  • Great Britain
  • International aspects
CIVIL AVIATION: Foreign Aviation
  • U.S.-Foreign aviation
  • Single-instrument in foreign aviation
CIVIL AVIATION: Control by surface carriers
  • General
  • By railroads
  • By steamship companies
CIVIL AVIATION: Aviation services
  • Air line schedules (dependability)
  • Free meals on airlines(elimination)
  • Feeder lines
  • Air cargo

Box 30

  • Freight rates
  • Carriage of the mail
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE
  • Bibliography: Government organization
  • Extracts from publications [1 of 2]
  • Extracts from publications [2 of 2]
  • Mr. Cook's memos. of conversations
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [1 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [2 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [3 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [4 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [5 of 14]

Box 31

  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [6 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [7 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [8 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [9 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [10 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [11 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [12 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [13 of 14]
  • Working papers of R.F. Cook, Advisor on Government Organization and Procedures [14 of 14]
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE: Hearings before the Commission
  • General
  • List of witnesses, schedules of hearings, and correspondence
  • Biographies of witnesses

Box 32

  • Questions asked of witnesses
  • Summaries of testimony
  • Digest of discussions: by subject and by witness
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE: Government organization
  • General
  • Principles
  • History of reorganization
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE: Present Government Organizations
  • General

Box 33

  • Air Coordinating Committee
  • Civil Aeronautics Administration
  • Civil Aeronautics Authority
  • Civil Aeronautics Board
  • Coast and Geodetic Survey
  • Coast Guard
  • Commerce Department in general
  • Federal Communications Commission
  • Interdepartmental Committees
  • International organizations
  • National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Office of International Trade
  • Post Office Department
  • Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics
  • State Department in general
  • Telecommunication Coordinating Committee
  • Weather Bureau
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE: Proposed reorganization
  • General
  • Department of Transportation
  • Department of Commerce

Box 34

PREPARATION OF REPORT: The Report
  • General correspondence and memoranda re report to the President
  • Draft of letter from the President to Congress, transmitting the report
  • Original signed typewritten report as submitted to President
  • Page proof of printed report
  • Summary of report as released to press
  • Charts and graphs used in report
  • Proposed classified report

Box 35

PREPARATION OF REPORT: >Drafts of sections of report
  • Air power and national defense
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry
  • Research and development
  • Civil Aviation

Box 36

  • Government organization [1 of 4]
  • Government organization [2 of 4]
  • Government organization [3 of 4]
  • Government organization [4 of 4]

Box 37

PREPARATION OF REPORT: Correspondence of Thomas K. Finletter, Chairman
  • Re: Air Policy Commission: Analysis of National Aeronautic Association
  • Air Policy Commission-Summary of the Report
  • Pamphlets
  • Miscellaneous A
  • Miscellaneous B
  • Miscellaneous C
  • Miscellaneous E
  • Miscellaneous F
  • Miscellaneous G
  • Miscellaneous H
  • Miscellaneous I
  • Miscellaneous J
  • Miscellaneous K
  • Miscellaneous L
  • Miscellaneous M
  • Secretary George C. Marshall
  • Miscellaneous N
  • Miscellaneous O
  • Miscellaneous P
  • Miscellaneous Q
  • Miscellaneous R
  • Miscellaneous S
  • Miscellaneous T
  • Miscellaneous U
  • Miscellaneous V
  • Miscellaneous W
  • TFK-Personal

Box 38

PREPARATION OF REPORT: Classified Material
  • Personnel: Security investigations
  • Congressional Air Policy Board: Hearings
  • Harper, Robert W. (Major General, Air Transport Command, U.S. Army)
  • Reeves, J. W., Jr. (Rear Adm., Naval Air Transport Service)
  • Central Intelligence Group
  • Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy
  • Air Force, U.S. - Training Division
  • Air Force, U.S. (Craigie and Gillespie)
  • Douglas Aircraft Co. (Rand Project)
  • Lee, Paul F. (Rear Adm., Chief, Naval Research)
  • Air Force, U.S. - McConnell, J. R. Brig. Gen.
  • Hargraves, Thomas J. (chairman, Munitions Bd).; Hill, Arthur M. (National Security Resources Board)
  • MacArthur, Douglas, General

Box 39

  • National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • West Coast trip to visit manufacturing plans, 10/5 to 10/12/47
  • Hlobil Universal Cargo Aircraft
  • Budget Bureau staff report on civil aviation and national defense
  • Information re Russian activities
  • H. E. Weihmiller - Compiled statistics and charts [1 of 3]
  • H. E. Weihmiller - Compiled statistics and charts [2 of 3]
  • H. E. Weihmiller - Compiled statistics and charts [3 of 3]

Box 40

  • H. E. Weihmiller - Procurement Levels Data
  • Weihmiller: Recommendations for industry section
  • Weihmiller: Industry backlogs - replies to questionnaire
  • Weihmiller: Industry replies to McCone's questionnaire
  • Weihmiller, H.E.
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry: Finance - general
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry: Aircraft component expense
  • Aircraft manufacturing industry: Volume of business and statistics

Box 41

  • Army Air Force "Report No. 530" on industrial preparedness in the aircraft industry
  • Research and Development: General
  • Research and Development in France
  • Research and Development agencies: Finance
  • Air Force research agencies
  • Guided missiles
  • Nuclear propulsion of aircraft
  • Wind tunnels
  • Civil aviation: Financing
  • Civil aviation in Canada
  • Civil aviation in Great Britain
  • International aspects of civil aviation
  • U.S. - Foreign aviation
  • Proposed classified report
OVERSIZED MATERIALS
  • Reports and Charts
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