Show That's Real Speed F FIVE A months ago it was announced th that t the United States government would build a small arms ammunition plant in Salt Lake City Next week the first machines to be used in the manufacture of cartridges will be installed in in- in- in S. S stalled in one of three loading cartridge-loading buildIngs build build- S Ings in pr process cess of construction at the plant That's real speed This week at the Ogden ordnance d depot p jt t men den and women are being called for duty in inthe the new 37 millimeter shell-loading shell plant S 1 They will begin actual production with output output out- out it put steadily increasing until in from three to six weeks it is expected the first unit of the plant will be in full production n empl employing yin about persons It is less than a year S since it was decided to build that plant yet already the first unit of buildings is all v completed and ready for production many have been trained in the plant for forthe forthe the work they will perform and a second unit which when completed will double production production production pro pro- is under construction 1 That too is real speed S We can read all the stories in the world about American defense activity but there Isn't anything like hand first-hand knowledge of actual accomplishment to prove that we are as a nation making real progress on defense We know of the speed with which the small arms plant and the millimeter shell load ing plant have been built Its It's nothing less than astonishing And listen What Uncle Sam is doing h re in the Salt Ogden Lake-Ogden area is being duplicated in scores of communities and industrial industrial industrial in- in areas all over the nation It proves Uncle Sam Isn't so slow And from now on S Sas as as this defense program rolls along faster and faster gathering momentum and weight i and strength like a snowball Hitler r is going to to find it out |