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Show ON THE HOME FRONT AMERICA'S WAR MACHINERY SWITCHES INTO HIGH GEAR AS PRESIDENT GIVES SIGNAL The President gave the signal and America's war production machinery, already rolling, switched switch-ed into high gear. Today we are moving at constantly quickening speed along the only sure highway high-way to victory - the hard and rocky road of self sacrifice. There's not one of the whole 131,000,000 of us, probably - man, woman or child - who won't have carried some part of the burden of this war" before it is oter, before be-fore the Japanese are slapped back into their own islands and disarmed, before Hitler and his stooge Mussolini and their followers fol-lowers - willing and unwilling -j have been made harmless. Expressed Ex-pressed in terms of cold cash, the huge 1942 program for tanks and guns and planes and ships will cost more than $400 for every citizen of these United States. So far the crisis in materials needed for this vast production program has been reflected chiefly chief-ly in the nation's auto salesrooms and auto supply stores. So far it's been primarily a matter of cars and tires. But already other changes are under way, changes which will be reflected in the products displayed dis-played on the shelves of tradesmen trades-men in thousands of towns and villages vil-lages when present stocks are exhausted. m |
