ABSTRACT
Like everything else in post-war Poland, the process of national economic planning had started under difficult circumstances. Records had largely been destroyed, the simplest necessities for new record-keeping were at first lacking. The Office of the Plan for the Rebuilding of Warsaw, for example, began without typists and typewriters, without sufficient desks, chairs, paper, and even pencils. Trains were not running, and before coming to his office the director would have spent some time standing in line for water to bring his wife for her household. Production itself was at first chaotic and prices wildly unstable. Moreover, among the survivors of the Occupation and war there was a great lack of planning personnel. Statisticians and clerks alike had in no small part to learn their tasks on the job.
