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Show Report on Lend-Lease Farm Machinery Less than 3 per cent of the United Unit-ed States production of farm machinery ma-chinery went for Lend-Lease between be-tween March 11, 1941, and November Novem-ber 1, 1942, according to the President's Pres-ident's report to Congress on Lend-Lease Lend-Lease operations. Allied need for farm machinery was increased because be-cause of military demands. American Ameri-can flying fortresses now use airfields air-fields which four years ago were among Britain's best farms, thus necessitating reclamation of marshes marsh-es and rough hill land for farm acreages. When Australia was threatened by Japanese invasion early in 1942, thousands of Australian Austra-lian farm tractors were conscripted for construction of military roads and airfields. Moreover, British and Australian farm machinery manufacturing manu-facturing facilities early in the war had been converted to ordnance production. |