Army & Navy - Boiled Down

Army procurement regulations were 1,500 pages long, weighed 18 lb. Then Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of SOS, came along. He got Colonel Albert J. Browning, who once resigned from SPAB because he could not stand red tape, to boil the regulations down. New size: 100 pages, one pound.

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