ALLIED PRODUCTION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 5

ALLIED PRODUCTION

Enormous Lend-Lease Figures 1

(British Official Wireless AMn,) (Received g England and America the Empire Produce^ pia _ y u a ? Alexander in a speech at Sheffield’ “ “Hourly production last year aver S' ra JU «'•» equipments, nearly l? 6^ W n^ ua “ enr i y ti0 Mr Alexander said that Britain’s plane last rear reached Russia with millions a? tons of cargo, thousands of plane* and tanks, and tens of thousands of vehiC 1 The United Stamps will produce more than 70,000 million dollars worth of munitions and war supplies during th-, rmninz year. said Mt. Donald 'V • vice-chairman of the United States Mrat Production Board, speaking in Bmstoir This is almost equal to the total • production of the rest of the world put together, friend and foe alike. In a message to Congress today President Roosevelt asked for an appropriation of 3450 million dollars for lend-leasedol-ing the fiscal year ending June 00, JJ+o. to provide industrial products veqUirel for the production of planes, tank®, guns and other war supplies in Allied countries, and also for the food and other agricultural products required to maintain their soldiers and war workers. He asked that the unexpended balances of the previous lend-lease appropriations should also be made available, a total of over 7188 million dollars, during tnc next fiscal year. Congress, has already appropriated 24,653 million dollars since lend-lease began in 1941.