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Show Ca juicily for War Found 110 Heady Mitch of Federal-Owned I'IiiiiI, ('.mi. Now I'roilttcc. WASHINGTON.- Morn than lit) per rent of the country's lyivernment-(hianced lyivernment-(hianced war plant was finished by the end of June, the .year':; half-way mark, Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production board, said. On January 1 only 111 per cent bad been built and n year aco only '.'A per cent. Now, out of a total ot $i.,r.i!2, (inn, nno, some $1 2, o:;ii, 000,000. 1 worth of plant for the production of ammunition, weapons, synthetic rubber, .ships and hij.;h octane gasoline gaso-line is in place. Of $.r;, 000,000, 000 of privately financed new war plant, about 00 per cent is complete. Of the facilities constructed last year, 70 per cent went into the building of facilities for the production produc-tion of ordnance, aircraft and ship-way, ship-way, while only 21 per cent went ' Into those for the output of raw materials. ma-terials. This year 40 per cent of the facilities scheduled for completion comple-tion will make raw materials and 50 per cent will turn out finished products. The extent of the advance in raw materials facilities was illustrated by Mr. Nelson with the statement that the synthetic rubber plant pro-. pro-. gram, which was only 3 per cent ', finished a year ago, was 61 per cent complete by the end of June. The largest percentage gain In the half, however, was registered by the 100-octane gasoline program, 39 per cent of which was complete by the half-year, as compared with less than 1 per cent on January 1. Even greater progress has been made by the privately financed high-octane program, 63 per cent of which Is now ready. |