Indians Told Of America's Rising War Production
British Official Wireless.
Rec. 11.15 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 24. Mr. George Myrell, head of the United States mission to India, in a broadcast said the motor car industry in America would produce 45,000 tanks this year while one plane was being turned out every 84 minutes. President Roosevelt's estimate of 60,000 planes a year would be exceeded and Mr. Henry Ford's factory at Michigan was turning out one four-engined bomber every hour. Twelve and a half million workers were employed on war production in America and in a year 17,000.000 workers would be producing for victory. The ship-' building industry was turning out three ships a day and the output would soon be four ships..
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1942, Page 3
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