| Show AMERICAS WALLOP INDEX now that this nation is really swinging into its national defense program there is a good chance to look around and judge some of the factors that would give any possible aggressor pause before it or he went looking for trouble with the united states examining the facts of the case the conclusion is inescapable that it is the industrial might of this country that is our best insurance against getting embroiled with any other nation in the world col willard M chevalier publisher of business week has for instance collected some very pertinent statistics on the subject col chevalier has estimated I 1 americas wallop index based on the national capacity to produce the essentials necessary to carry on a modern war items like coal oil steel autos and electric power setting at the german ca j i lacity to produce these resources our own capacity would figure at 1242 he declared stacked up la against the totalitarian I 1 the united states still lias has the edge despite the recent industrial and agricultural acquisitions of hitler and his axis partners citing the steel industry as an all example the noted analyst con finues the capacity of U S mills at the beginning of 1040 1940 was tons this is nearly twice last years output in germany and the countries that have come under german control where mills wore were operating at a feverish pace it is 50 per cent greater than the production of the rome berlin tokyo axis and it falls alls only tons short of the output of the entire world outside the united states but including russia and the british empire industrial production alone does docs not make a country strong national faith and national unity are vital too but when all work together the result surely is fore ordained |
