Show washington WASHINGTO N N S aw 41 19 FROM OUR congressman CON W WK K GRANGER from the war department the american soldier of today gets twice as much milk as the sold ier of 1917 the milk abet was stepped up to assure a sufficiency of vitamin B 2 and calcium the daily milk is divided equally between milk served in natural form and milk used in cooking or served in processed foods such as cheese defense projects the commissioner reported defense expenditures of nearly halt half a billion domars during the fiscal year ending june 30 with workers or almost 30 per cent of the on the rolls at work june on airport highway and other construction related to the defense program american troop carrying gliders larger than those of germans troop carrying gliders to be tow ed by airplanes are being built lay y the hinted states and are much larger than those used by germany in the battle of crete in crete germany used gliders carrying six men each in trains of as many as eight behind a plane with the graduation of a number of army officers to operate cargo troop carrying gliders with a capacity of form eight to fifteen armed men it is no longer a secret that the air corps is in the process of training military personnel to operate car so go type gliders or that provision is being made for glider borne troops as a military accessory to air ground operations progress of our national defense program some of the highlights are as follows in the month of june a total out put of 1476 airplanes were manufactured which is a new high in planes the plane production right now is at the rate of a year and we are only getting started on a huge plane program we are now producing light 13 ton tanks a month next month production will begin on the new 26 ton medium tanks the new garand rifles are being made at the rate of 1000 a month 50 caliber gun genii 1 1000 a month 30 caliber machine guns at the rate of a month gunpowder production is now at 50 per cent of intended capacity but already equal to the peak of world war days merchant ships now more than nine million tons and production at a high rate ten ships delivered in may |