DISPOSAL OF WAR SURPLUSES.

The article focuses on the disposal of war surpluses during the transition to a peacetime economy in the United States. The Baruch plan authorizes a Surplus Property Administrator in the Office of War Mobilization to oversee the disposal of consumer and industrial surplus products, create a Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and allow the Treasury Procurement Division to manage consumer-goods surpluses. Alternative policies are destroying surplus materials to remove them from the domestic market, keeping supplies for future use, applying overstocks such as food to relief programs in other countries, or selling items in foreign markets. Topics include the origin of surplus government property and the challenges of finding new uses for overstocks of strategic or raw materials.