“Stuart Chase wrote in 1933 that Howard Scott's revived group, renamed Technocracy, had with the courtesy of Columbia University and the American Institute of Architects put some fifty unemployed draftsmen to work on an 'Energy Survey of North America', whose conclusions had made Technocracy a household word.”

Context. Later histories, notably Akin (1977, not read directly here), describe the rapid collapse of the vogue early in 1933 and the split of Scott's group.