Chapter 26
[Major General George] Goethals’ best work had been the Panama Canal…He took over a demoralized crew with seemingly insurmountable problems and molded them into a unified organization [where] he controlled supply organizations and used scientific management. [Then recalled from retirement to lead the Army’s supply system in World War I] in 1917 he once again found confusion but could never duplicate his earlier power to deal with it. He and his assistants worked hard to push the Army’s supply organization toward a better, more rational operation suitable for the 20th century…[but] he could never succeed in centralizing the supply activities of the War Department…was not able to effect any substantial permanent reforms…[and] ...
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