FROM CARS TO TANKS
U.S. Production Figures
(British l.lllivial Wireless.i RUGBY. August 25.
Mr. George Myrell. bead of the United Slates mission to India, said in a broadcast that the motor-car industry in America would produce 45,000 tanks this year, and one plane wa.s being turned out in every minutes.
Mr. Roosevelt’s estimate of 60,000 planes a year would be exceeded, and Mr. Henry Ford's factory in Michigan was turning out one four-engined bomber every hour. ’Twelve and n half million workers were employed in war production in America, and in a year 17.000.000 workers would lie producing for victory. The shipbuilding industry was turning out three ships a day, and the daily output would soon be four ships.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 6
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119FROM CARS TO TANKS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 6
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