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== Directive 10-289 ==

== Directive 10-289 ==

In April of 1929, [[Mr. Thompson]], [[President of the United States]], personally authorized [[Wesley Mouch]], Senior Coordinator of the Bureau of Economic Planning and Natural Resources, to promulgate [[Directive 10-289]]. This was an effort to freeze all economic inputs and outputs at present levels, to stop the economy from deteriorating any further.

In April of 1957, [[Mr. Thompson]], [[President of the United States]], personally authorized [[Wesley Mouch]], Senior Coordinator of the Bureau of Economic Planning and Natural Resources, to promulgate [[Directive 10-289]]. This was an effort to freeze all economic inputs and outputs at present levels, to stop the economy from deteriorating any further.

Point Four of this Directive included the shutdown of the [[Register of Copyrights]] and the [[United States Patent Office]]. [[James Taggart]], one of several men present at the final planning meeting, pointed out that all private research institutions would have to close. Wesley Mouch asked Ferris whether he would be able to take on at least some of the students who would be effective, and he answered, with relish, {{cquote|Some—those who prove co-operative.}}

Point Four of this Directive included the shutdown of the [[Register of Copyrights]] and the [[United States Patent Office]]. [[James Taggart]], one of several men present at the final planning meeting, pointed out that all private research institutions would have to close. Wesley Mouch asked Ferris whether he would be able to take on at least some of the students who would be effective, and he answered, with relish, {{cquote|Some—those who prove co-operative.}}

Point Three was a provision by which the inventors of any major discoveries would each sign a "gift certificate" placing his invention into the [[public domain]]. Dr. Ferris warned everyone present that a certain type of man, whom he called "the guiltless man," would never cooperate. But James Taggart said, "Are you talking about Hank Rearden? Don't worry. He'll sign." Ferris would later hear directly from Mouch what James Taggart had had to share: that Henry Rearden and [[Dagny Taggart]] were having an illicit affair, and had been having this affair since the opening of the John Galt Line.

Point Three was a provision by which the inventors of any major discoveries would each sign a "gift certificate" placing his invention into the [[public domain]]. Dr. Ferris warned everyone present that a certain type of man, whom he called "the guiltless man," would never cooperate. But James Taggart said, "Are you talking about Hank Rearden? Don't worry. He'll sign." Ferris would later hear directly from Mouch what James Taggart had had to share: that Henry Rearden and [[Dagny Taggart]] were having an illicit affair, and had been having this affair since the opening of the John Galt Line.

Accordingly, in May of 1929, Ferris confronted Rearden in his office with hard, written evidence of the affair, in the form of records of [[hotel]] stays in and near Starnesville and Rome, [[Wisconsin]], that occurred shortly after the John Galt Line had opened. As Taggart and Mouch had confidently predicted, Henry Rearden signed the "gift certificate" and surrendered the rights to his Metal.

Accordingly, in May of 1957, Ferris confronted Rearden in his office with hard, written evidence of the affair, in the form of records of [[hotel]] stays in and near Starnesville and Rome, [[Wisconsin]], that occurred shortly after the John Galt Line had opened. As Taggart and Mouch had confidently predicted, Henry Rearden signed the "gift certificate" and surrendered the rights to his Metal.

If Ferris tried again to get a supply of Rearden Metal for Project X, the novel does not say. Orren Boyle ''did'' try to make Rearden Metal, now known as Miracle Metal, at his mills on the coast of [[Maine]]. But the notorious [[privateer]] [[Ragnar Danneskjold]] destroyed those mills. Neither Boyle nor anyone other than Rearden would try to make Rearden Metal ever again.

If Ferris tried again to get a supply of Rearden Metal for Project X, the novel does not say. Orren Boyle ''did'' try to make Rearden Metal, now known as Miracle Metal, at his mills on the coast of [[Maine]]. But the notorious [[privateer]] [[Ragnar Danneskjold]] destroyed those mills. Neither Boyle nor anyone other than Rearden would try to make Rearden Metal ever again.