GREATER OUTPUT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 3

GREATER OUTPUT

WANTED FROM U.S.A. WAR INDUSTRIES MR DONALD NELSON’S DRIVE. PRODUCTION OF AIRCRAFT & SHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 8. The Washington correspondent of the "Daily News” reports that the chief of the War Production Board, Mr Donald Nelson, is launching a drive to increase production in the three major war industries —aircraft, steel, and shipping. Mr Nelson is convinced that the greatest trouble in the aircraft industry is poor management rather than lack of materials. He is therefore placing engineers from the War Production Board in aeroplane plants in order to speed up the present lagging production. Mr Nelson has obtained evidence that certain steel mills are selling steel to private customers without priority certificates on such a widespread scale that war production is being seriously delayed. As a result punitive action is now being considered to set an example to the rest of the industry. The War Production Board feels that the present goal of two ships a day in the shipbuilding industry is not enough and wants the present scheme of 8,000,000 tons of shipping a year greatly increased. It is anticipated that Mr Nelson will have to use all his war time powers in order to achieve the desired results in this vital portion of the United States’ war effort.