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Show iA LESSON FOR DICTATORS As the great dictatorships of Germany, Japan and Italy crumble on their rotten foundations, it is with a feeling of pride that we in the United States point to the production records of free enterprise, compared with the much boasted efficiency of the totalitarian governments. The output of American industry has even surpassed our most cherished hopes. Take oil, for example. In no place on earth except in America where the system, of freedom of enterprise has been recognized, could such a record have been made. After Pearl Harbor, American refiners were informed by government that the then 40,000 barrels daily production of 100-octane gasoline would have to be increased to about 200,000 barrels daily by the end of 1942 to supply military operations. The oil industry went to work on a construction program which involved 450 domestic oil refineries and 189 separate projects of various types of installations necessary to the manufacture of special ingredients essential in making the finished product. Today the Allied flying forces, less than three years aftei Pearl Harbor, can tap wellsprings of high octane aviation gasoline for 500,000 barrels daily. Commenting on this, W. R. Boyd jr., chairman of the Petroleum Industry War council, says: "It is in truth an accomplishment ac-complishment resulting from the teamwork of this typically American industry of ours and our government, the fruits of a program in wlhieh management, patriotic workmen ana techndlogists organized ;by the Petroleum Administration for War and supported by the army and navy and such civilian civil-ian agencies of government as the War Production Board and Dt-cr.Gc Plant Corporation, each were assigned a role which everyone played magnificently." |
