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Show DEFENSE DEMANDS CUT PAPER SUPPLY will use approximately 5,000 carloads car-loads of paper during 1941. Steel plants use paper to the extent of 3,0C0 carloads for the purpose of interleaving armor plate. The most critical thing facing the mills today is the matter of chemicals. An important chemical used in the production of paper is Tha Goverrfment declares federal I requirements must be filled before civilian needs. i Figures from the O. P. M. office ' at Washington, showing some of tha paper purchases since the start t of the Defense Program: j 7,600 tons (or 375 carloads) Mimeograph paper j 3,500 tons ( or 125 carloads) Type- ! writer paper. I 34 MM sheets carbon paper. ' 2,000,000 rolls toilet tissue for each army camp. 50,000,000 paper file holders. I, 000,000 paper milk bottles per day at the present time for the camps. ' 100,000,000 lbs. paper for soldiers i handbook ( this amount of 1 handworks, if stacked, would be j sixteen times as high as the Wash- ington Monument). ' , 30,000,000 albums for defense stamps. 100,000 pounds of paper for soldiers handbook covers. 15,000 tons (or 550 carloads) target tar-get paper. 14,000 pounds asbestos paper for each crusier of which G4 are now boing built. 1 carload of blueprint used in the construction of each battleship II, 000 tons (or 550 carloads') paper each mouth for wrapping shells. 1,000.000 envelopes for lease-lend work. chlorine; The curb in uses of chlorine chlor-ine means the writing paper, payer napkins, hooks and magazine:; soon will hae a yellowidi appearance. appear-ance. Chlorine is used not ony to hleach paper, but al.so to make dry-cleaning dry-cleaning materials, anli freeze compounds and premium gasoline. Also it i ; u for siaokl .-s powder, powd-er, gasses ami smoke screen materials. mater-ials. A reliable estinnie ii'.d:e.-:tes that, merchants iliis car v. iil receive 90 perivnt of 'he ton;u.p,v tiu-v received re-ceived in 19:0. The same estimate I points out th..t deliveries in i9t2 may he redm cd to as little as a: peiveut of 1M-I (onrms.v In A mil the mills oi. u-aied at 9il.4 percent of capacity. In Jlay they t-uprv,l up to 99.2 percent, of capaeiiy. In June and July it is indicated that, production was over ion percent. July v. as the 5!h con .'-calico month in which orders received at the mills were in i xces.; of li-n pere. nt of production. Copied - Yikama. 1.000,000 pounds water-proof paper to cover equipment sent to Iceland. 80.000.000 grocery bags. 50,000,000 corrugaed cases o ship canned goods to England. And this is only the beginning. The government Printing Office |
