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Show COMMENTS The work done in our shipyards will have a tremendous bearing on the length of time it will take to win this war. THE BATTLE OF PRODUCTION This country is at last winning "the battle bat-tle of production." We haven't lived up to all our hopes and forecasts. But the instruments of our war are rolling out of the plants in a steadily increasing stream. That stream will soon reach flood proportions. The next job is to win "the battle of ocean transportation." We're trying to keep the actual combat fronts away from this continent, con-tinent, but we can't do that unless we can produce the vast amount of shipping and transport and serve and supply United Nat ion's troops on all the far-flung wartrouls of the world. This isn't a matter of producing enough ships to offset losses. .Our rate of production must be far greater than our loss rate, especially espec-ially in the matter of tankers. So far ship production has been under the schedules previously pre-viously laid down. Strenuous efforts are being made to bring it up to the necessary level. |