Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1943 You will notice that our job is, by brief and limiting description, the same as it was last year. That is because we assumed the job of marshaling the Nation's natural resources on the very day that Pearl Harbor was bombed. But despite identical labels, this year's work has differed from last year's. It is one thing to conceive and launch a great new program, and a quite different thing to push the program through when the obstacles loom in front. This has been the year of the big push, and execution has been a real test, as I have said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.