Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...4. Cancellation Section. All functions relative to contract cancellations and adjustments other than those handled by the Assistant in Charge of Cancellations. At the time of reorganization (May 1, 1919) there were 700 employees in the division. On June 30, 1919, the number had been reduced to 600. Field organization.--The country was divided into five supply and sales districts, with headquarters as follows: New York, suboffice at Boston. Philadelphia. New Orleans, suboffice at Jacksonville. Chicago. Portland, suboffices at Seattle and San Francisco. Sales Section. The Sales Section acts as a central agency for the maintenance of records as they exist and is the direct communicative source with the corresponding section of the District Supply and Sales Office to facilitate the work. It receives, reviews, and presents to the Sales Review Board all sales transactions sent in by the District Supply and Sales Managers for approval. It is further charged with the interpretation of policies and sales procedure of the Corporation as applied to individual transactions. The sales activities of the Corporation began on August 19, 1918, when orders were issued authorizing the Supply Division to handle the resale of raw material, equipment, and supplies owned by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which should be resold in the interest of the Corporation. The sales made by the Supply Division, under this order, were almost completely of scrap material left over in the manufacture of boilers. On December 5, 1918, orders were issued establishing the Division of Cancellations, Adjustment and Salvage, one of the duties of this division being to dispose of any material resulting from the adjustments of cancellations. A summary of the result in the sale of...