| Show punts plants Reflect Prosperity of Defense Aims I e The Tho urgency of Industrial s i es Arai Fd the g 0 Cn ed Sut Industrial Ui V record of production a JS JUlI I new to 10 the jear eare of thereto depre Ww j pep rrt l American merely P f life r rt t described ot the tor In y If M be Dr w d of a Uriel series of ot fire fin e articles 0 Whitehead ae Don BY B 1 20 The Tele Tele- 11 t FV YORK Aug Special News Service Service- Urns prams pram's rams of war and the urgen- urgen be e of fP specter national atonal defense are being q in the skies above the Unit- Unit t n ts Britten states ates with the black plumes f of smoke oke pouring from chimneys o V f industries producing a at record levels le The M-he American industrial coloss colos's colos- colos tl aroused as never before I is s J JS pace of production steadily I r being tan e n stepped higher and higher violence lence of the transition from h pe lethargy tar Y of p pai peacetime deprespe depres- depres fa to sudden pro prosperity shaken Ui a vir viral aI ai al wartime wartime economy has shaken nation into new patterns of e thought bought and action IThe impact of war and defense industry first because war jell leU 1 on en el day is essentially a battle of mames mas ma- ma mes s with ultimate vIctor victory likely ly goto w the nation or combination w nations nation with the most and best besty r germany Germany y had a year seven-year start starton on the world in in producing cuts of war and now the wh wheels els American a industry are turning ita I dizzy pace ace to cut ct cut down this fair Prods Activity The be war waE prodded industry into creased activity with orders from and France for planes ament munitions and supplies men n our own defense program it forward under the impetus im- im petus of billions of dollars in contacts con con- WIUS Ii meta ls for goods and materials If The vaunted genius of American fu for lor mass production is isi icy i i put tc to the test test and and early results molts show it is living up to adi ad- ad i- i billing Production is hitting y Gov Go economists et ct that by next j year rear ear it will 49 40 per cent greater greate than the them m year of 1929 a 1929 a year of goldIn gold- gold M In production which stood through as a gauge of prosperity Strikes bottlenecks inadequate planning fanning shortages of materials ui ud dozens of other snarls have I rowed owed the machines yet jet ton on Increases Remember the despair and gloom settled over the nation a wade fode d ade ago ago The factories were punt gaunt and lifeless The breadlines retched endlessly and the country coun coun- try learned of the forgotten man I unemployment rose Capital was in m biding Farmers were desper desperate te With till th the same sort of desperation that gripped everyone Many industrial cities became ghost towns We were w ere at pe peace ce but panicky and the medie medi- medi e cne men flourished with political nd od economic cure alls K Income Rises Ltd And now now national Income is sing riSing toward the time all all all- time high of and the government economists predict it may touch W next year Factories are producing at caty ca- ca laity ty and are expanding facilities Se en even eyen greater output Employ Employ- 5 cent tnt t in no nonagricultural agrIcultural work has Cached almost a new rord rd and breadlines have dis- dis reared eared Farmers Farmers' income is up i Eg only desperation is In the then n ency to produce more goodstone goods ii tone one has time to listen to the theo o men a few months the young joung craft industry boomed into a time giant The industry ex- ex banded Mea beyond the wildest dreams O illation n enthusiasts It still is owIng Growing E Eighteen en months ago there were W men nien employed by the air- air ct Wt raft t industry Today loday there are I note ore than Thousands more Ji 3 being schooled for the special- special lane battle ze zed work W work of fashioning battle battle- Mes anes engines and propellers two 11 l o years ago the industry pro pro- a 2404 military planes of all pes jy Yf r. r S S. 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S Knudsen of the office of production Auction management predicts hat t airplane production will reach 9 w a month next year exceed- exceed ng ii n ty 50 per cent the production any any other nation including ermany Training schools are turning out pilots lots by the thousands The army a a goal of fliers a year the navy You cant can't j tt t men to e be pilots A flier must lave ave a love for the f flying and n. n outlook ok to go with his J physical cond condition jion Urgently N Needed heeded ceded Just t as as urgent urgent as the need for forthe hips hips' P of the air was the need for hips Ps ps at sea when the threat of war Pushed pushed across across the horizon At t the end of 1939 the United tales l tes had gross tons tons' of of merchant shipping and only 2 2094 o I w gross tons were used for forc foro for- for c commerce the other being reate In coastal o and reat Lakes rakes shipping Great Brit Brit- alit n i v had gross tons By last t May l 1 the British admiralty ad- ad nazi an announced the he nazi undersea under- under sea S. S ea raiders den h had a d. d sunk a toss tons of the ships of Britain and Kf her allies a rate of loss greater the caPacity of United States States' in n and u Britain's S shipyards to replace UI them hem em But now the United States' States shipYards ship ship- Yards ards M are booming In May 1940 in there here Were slipways available this ate country but this year there lre and others oters under under construe construe- lion Uon Ion |
