WAR PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1943, Page 4

WAR PRODUCTION

IMPRESSIVE AMERICAN FIGURES. BIG INCREASES IN NEAR PROSPECT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright; RUGBY, December 8. American overall war production in 1944 will be 80 per cent above the 1943 record. The latter has been 50 per cent above 1942. Revealing this today in New York, to the National Association of Manufacturers, Mr Charles E. Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the United States War Production Board, said the present schedule would be followed unless the war took an unexpectedly favourable turn in 1943. The production of aircraft, he added, would be about 140 per cent higher than in 1942. The current rate was 235 per cent above 1942, and for 1944 it was expected that the figure would be raised to 325 per cent higher than in 1942. In number of planes the United States was approaching top level. In naval ship production, the 1943 output would be over 75 per cent above 1942 and in merchant ship production 100 per cent above 1942. “I think it will not be long,” said Mr Wilson, “before we strike our enemies blows so staggering that no defences will be able to resist them and the war will progress as swiftly as possible to our final triumph,”