Pots and Pans Into Planes

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1942, Page 2

Pots and Pans Into Planes

New York Times.

Anyone who goes on a buying spree is sabotaging the war, Secretary Morgenthau said recently.. Figures released by the War Production Board show Why. Practically every article of ordinary household use or of everyday wear competes with the war effort for vital materials. The rubber that went into one month's supply of baby pants last year will make. 2800 rubber life rafts of the kind that navy fliers lived on for 34 days in the mid-Pacific. The steel used last year for bobbie pins will make 16,000 one-ton aerial bombs. The cork in beer and pop bottles will make 4;000,000 life preservers. One lady's handbag is the. equivalent of a pair of aviator's gloves. The steel in one set of golf clubs will make 30 hand grenades. The aluminium from 7700 ordinary pots and pans will make a pursuit plane. A gallon of gasoline saved by giving up the Sunday drive will put a bomber one . mile closer to the enemy target. The list goes on and on. Up to now we have actually had to sacrifice very little because we have been living on accumulated stocks, but from now on the job is to turn bobbie pins into bombs, baby oants into life rafts and pots and

pans into planes.-