MAKING EXPLOSIVES
CANADIAN OUTPUT INCREASED. NEW PLANTS CONSTRUCTED. OTTAWA. “In 1941 Canada will be producing explosives at an annual rate more than twice as great as the entire production of this country in the Great War,” said the Hon C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply. “Our present chemicals and explosives programme,” he continued, “now involves capital expenditures of some 60,000,000 dollars and includes the erection of 10 plants, several of which equal in magnitude anything of a similar nature existing in the Empire today. With the development of this programme, the Canadian output of explosives will be substantially increased within the next few weeks.” A very large shell filling plant is presently being constructed which will employ some of the production from the explosives plants. Plans are under way for the further enlargement of of the shell filling capacity of the Dominion. The construction work on all these plants is proceeding well up to schedule and, in several instances, substantially ahead of schedule, said the Minister. The output of explosives will include both propellants and high explosives of several types.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 8
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182MAKING EXPLOSIVES Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 8
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