lumber and hardware for tent frames, and POL storage facility equipment were purchased and shipped in conjunction with amt in addition to H & ¥ programmed requirements. Copies of all receiving reports were forwarded to the SupplyOfficer of the Seventh Engineer Brigade inmediately upon receipt of materials, and the first shipment of these supplies in excess of those available at the Jobsite was scheduled for March 3, 1950. This period also marked the beginning of the paving construction work with the purchase and shipment on April 10, 1950, of 850,000 gallons of bitumuls, together with the necessary handling and transfer equipment. The second tanker load of 900,000 gallons of bitumils followed in June. The 75-foot and 300-foot steel towers and the 300-foot aluminum tower were all completed in this quarter. Additional requirements for construction machinery, plant conveyors, and heavy-duty low-bed trailers were placed on the procurement schedule. Because of the greatly increased volume of active orders and the urgency of the need for augmentation in the flow of supplies, four members of the Purchasing Department were placed on full time expediting of materials orders. Early in the third quarter of 1950, a major transportation problem arose as a result of the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. A year ear- lier, in July 1949, a similar unforseen transportation setback had oc- curred when 60,000 cubic feet of Holmes & Narver cargo space was cancel- led and allotted to the U. 8. Post Office Department as the result of the maritime strike in the Territory of Hawaii. Despite this setback, the shipment of the required equipment and supplies had continued om an increasing scale and efforts were being continually made to enlarge space allocations. As shown in Figure 13.2-3, the total monthly weight of June 1950 shipments had risen to over seventeen million pounds of freight when hostilities began in Korea. The Navy Department was forced to cancel all allocated shipping space, and a total of six vessels were scheduled and cancelled before cargo space finally became available again for an August 25th sailing. The outbreak of the Korean War occurred at the time when the peak of material shipments had been scheduled and the facilities made available to H& HN at Naval Supply Center quickly became jammed with materials scheduled for Eniwetok; whereupon the Center was forced to refuse receipt of any additional quantities. To relieve the situation, Holmes & Narver obtained other storage space in the Oakland area and temporarily suspended shipment of its material by means of telegram and telephone notification to the various vendors. The expeditors had to completely reverse their field of action in an effort to halt the flow of all the scheduled material. Some precautions had been takem against contingencies of this nature, including the provision at Jobsite of refrigerated storage space suffi- client for a full month's supply of foed. In addition, shipments of food supplies prior to July 1950 had been se scheduled that this space vas filled to near capacity at all times. This circumstance proved of great value during the shipping shortage, as H & N's total allocation of ship- ping space during this period was confined to 240,000 pounds shipped 13-17