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Show Production of Rifles and Ammunition Meets All Requirements Rifle and cartridge production in the United States has developed in volumne and in quality on a scale assuring as-suring the satisfactory equipment of the Army, according to a statement authorized by the Secretary of War. To achieve the rifle and ammunition ammuni-tion production program the Government Govern-ment has expended or has obligated itself to expend, during ten months of war, $400,000,000 and 200 officers, offi-cers, 80,000 men, and 10,000 women have been engaged exclusively in the manufacture of rifles and cartridges. Two government plants and three privately owned plants are engaged in making rifles and one government plant and nine privately owned plants are engaged in cartridge manufacture. man-ufacture. Ordnance experts in this country and in Europe are in agreement agree-ment that the United States Army is being equipped with two of the best three rifles in the world. |