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Show THE LARGE AND SMALL OF IT The United States is'extremely proud of its big industries, steel and automobiles and the rest. Our mass production abilities have made us respected in every part of the world. Every other nation has imitated imi-tated and envied the ways in which we handle the raw materials of industry and shape them to our will. On that account, it caused violent tremors in the capitals of the world when it became plain that American industry was devoting its full energies to the task of producing armaments for our own defense and also for the other democracies. demo-cracies. Now, it seems, it turns out that observers haven't even really appreciated the half of it. Of course we have the biggest industries ever conceived by mankind! man-kind! But now the small companies of this nation-tens nation-tens of thousands of them are also joining up for the vast rearmament task ahead. They're being asked to pitch in as sub-contractors for the larger companies being asked to make many of the small parts that go into the big completed jobs for the Army and the Navy and they're being urged to help in this task by-William by-William S. Knudsen and other in his Office for Production Pro-duction Management. - Helping to make this "sub-contracting" as effective as possible was the survey recently completed com-pleted by the National Industrial Council, with tens of thousands of plants of every size giving the Council complete information on their defense de-fense facilities. This is a job industry did 6n its own hook in the service of the nation. And with the survey completed, this country possesses the picture of large and small companies working down to the last lathe in the smallest shop to achieve the largest task ever set for American industry. It has already been proved that the private enterprise system of a free nation is handling, and can handle, this assignment supremely supreme-ly well! |