. The Forest products laboratory; . the facilities of the laboratory at once raised acritical financial situation that needed solution before expansion could A Decexxial Recokd 39 be authorized. While the very hniited appropriation for the regularstaff could be devoted to war time work, the amount was fixed. Rec-ognition of the situation by the Forest Service resulted in transferringsmall amounts of money created by adjustment of work in other fieldsand also in the sending of experienced personnel to assist in the en-larged program. Despite these adjustments, but little progress couldhave been
. The Forest products laboratory; . the facilities of the laboratory at once raised acritical financial situation that needed solution before expansion could A Decexxial Recokd 39 be authorized. While the very hniited appropriation for the regularstaff could be devoted to war time work, the amount was fixed. Rec-ognition of the situation by the Forest Service resulted in transferringsmall amounts of money created by adjustment of work in other fieldsand also in the sending of experienced personnel to assist in the en-larged program. Despite these adjustments, but little progress couldhave been made without the allotment of funds from the various co-operating bureaus in the Army and Navy departments. From thesesources came the bulk of the funds used for carrying on the importantwar program. Additional space, as needed, was made availablethrough the patriotic cooperation of the University of Wisconsin, anumber of whose buildings, in whole or part, were vacated and turnedover to the laboratory during the period of the PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENTS AT THE LABORATORY—JULY 1917 TO JULY 1920 Of the many difficulties encountered in carrying on the necessarywork, the matter of personnel was ever present. The dearth of prop-erly trained men who could be secured at the comparatively low sal-aries which the laboratory was able to pay was always most acute, andwas largely responsible for many irksome delays in expanding theorganization. This expansion went forward, however, at a reasonable 40 The Forest Products LxVboratory rate, and on armistice day the entire force numbered 458 that time, the personnel was gradually reduced, and much of theemergency M-ork dropped. However, certain of the projects, espe-cially those of importance in peace-time developments, have beencontinued, support for them being largely furnished by the cooperat-ing bureaus. The w^ar expansion and the relative personnel situationtoday and in 1917, prior to the sudden groMi:h of the laboratory
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