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Show vTo Make Poor Adolf Dizzy" War with Hitler will toe the price of laxity in arming the United States, declares Mayor La Guardia di New York, who adds that defense material is coming off assembly lines "far better" than many government officials are hinting and predicts pre-dicts that in a few months this country will toe producing enou.gn planes, tanks and ships to ''make poor Adolf dizzy." It is also revealed' that about tOO tanks 'have ibeen delivered to the British toy American man-u.ucjjrers. man-u.ucjjrers. The American tanks nave oeen approved on the basis of exhaustive tests in Libya, Lib-ya, .under the same conditions that wrecked the toest designs produced in Great Britain. Most al the tanks, sent to the British, have been of the light variety, ranging from thirteen to sixteen tons. .Another item, of interest to those concerned with the defense de-fense program, comes from Detroit, De-troit, where Chrysler officials intimate that mass production ,or de.ense has been reached. At the tank arsenal, where the tom:ja"iy was expected' to produce pro-duce Live thirty-two ton tanks a day, three production lines are "fully up" to schedule and substantial increase is expected. The company is also producing anti-aircraft guns and airplanes. From such glimpses it is no 'wonder that Noel Monks, Lon-i.oii Lon-i.oii aviation editor, after inspecting in-specting American plants, is confident that the increased number of American planes going go-ing to England will enable the British Royal Air Force to "dish, it out ten times as well this Winter Win-ter as last" and that, in six months, the United States will be flooding England with planes. |