HELPING TO WIN WAR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 40, 19 January 1943, Page 7

HELPING TO WIN WAR

WHY YOU MUST DO WITH LESS

SOME SENSIBLE REASONS

For handy reference, here is ;i list j of some of the things we have thus | far been asked to cut down, and why. It's the why that's important, j There are several hundred other items made of iron and steel which we normally expect to find in shops, buti we are learning to do without. To provide the smokeless powder for 47 more rifle cartridges to shoot at the enemy, you arc asked to do without a pound of sugar, the sugar making the alcohol to make, the smokeless gun-powder for the cartridges. Because a fully-loaded Flying Fortress uses as much petrol in an hour as the family motor car does in six months and because, the Army needs, all the tankers. Because there's enough stecil used in. the making of one new automobile to make 26 heavy machine, guns. Because, one bomber tyre has as much, rubber in it as seven motor car tyres. Because more metal, more labour and more machine hours go into: the making of one. Garand automatic rifle. Because the cuffs: of 21 pairs of pants have enough wool in them to make one Army uniform. Because it 'takes the silk of. 100 pairs of silk stockings to< make one parachute for a paratrooper. Because the solder and alloys in a medium tank require as much tin as it takes to pack 10,000 cans; of food. Because the rubber in a raincoat equals the rubber in a gas mask. Because there's enough zinc in a Zlzlb toy locomotive, to make the carburettor on a jeep. Because there is as much plastic in the cowling of a pursuit ship as there is in 40 average records; there's enough shellac in 6 gramophone records to water-proof the primer cups, on 100,000 rounds of . 30-calibre cartridges. Because there's as much steel in the tail assembly of the 2,0001b. bomb as there- is in 12,000 razor blades.. Because, a pair of Army shoes takes 2% times as much leather as a pair of. civilian OxfordsBecause all the wool needed to clothe and equip a soldier for a year is equal to the wool in 25 pairs of blankets. 15ecau.se. there's enough copper in a .'-Sib kettle for 84. rounds of ammunition to lire from an automatic rifle.