| OCR Text |
Show SUPERIOR POWER IN AIR SEEN WITHIN SIX MONTHS Overwhelming air superiority over the Axis powers will probably prob-ably be evident within the next six months. Production of planes in the United States is estimated by Speaker Rayburn at 3,300 a month and other sources indicate that the president's goal of 60,000 planes in 19-12 will be met. From Great Britain comes re-' re-' ports that British production is equal to that of Germany and, in addition, the United Nations have the advantage of Russia's not inconsiderable in-considerable output. Production of other weapons of war, including tanks and guns, is reassuring but the shipping situation situ-ation continues to be the bottleneck bottle-neck of the war aganst the Axis. Spectacular submarine campaigns have inflicted heavy losses upon the United Nations but this threat should be considerably diminished before the end of the present year. In connection with the shipping 1 1.3 the loss of Axis ships. Japan has suffered serious blows in the Far East. Italy has been painfully mauled in the Mediterranean and Germany has lost many ships in the waters of the North Atlantic. |
