WAR PRODUCTION
PROGRESS IN UNITED S TA’i ES. DEVELOPMENT OF FACTORIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 18. Mr. Knudsen told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee that 784 manufacturing plants were available to produce defence,materials. He added that the Government was spending 1,574,000,000 dollars to construct and renovate 302 plants which will produce materials worth 126,000,000,000 dollars. The British were financing 61 plants and 421 were financed privately by Americans at a cost of 393,0001000 dollars. The Government plants were the following: Ammunition, 1; warplanes. 20; warplane accessories, 66; warplane engines, one; shells, bombs and torpedoes, 18; munition loadings, nine: machine-guns, five; artillery, 27; small arms, two; ships, 40; tanks, 5; armcurplate, 12; machine tools, 20; optical instruments, nine; metals, seven; pumps and blowers, five; ship engines, three; rehabilitation arsenals, miscellaneous. 20.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 6
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137WAR PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 6
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