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Thus last week did the President launch the biggest production program in world history. For 1942, U.S. industry is asked to produce 60,000 airplanes, 45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns, 8,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant ships. For 1943, 125,000 planes, 75,000 tanks, 35,000 anti-aircraft guns, 10,000,000 tons of merchant ships...
...Saves 13% deadweight in a ship's hull, and proportionally increases the vessel's carrying capacity. Weight reduction comes from elimination of 1) overlap of a ship's plates-welded they lie butt to butt, 2) angle-pieces often required in riveted joints, 3) the rivets themselves...
Baby of the new fleet is the C1, 413418 ft. long, of 7,500-9,000 deadweight tons, a cruising range of 10,000 miles, a speed of better than 14 knots...
...Giant motor busses and trailers have been built in the U.S. with a deadweight saving of four to five tons through magnesium alloys...
...were five of the new Ugly Ducklings, rechristened Liberty Ships; seven fancy cargo-&-passenger ships of the Maritime Commission's prewar building program; a tanker; an Army transport. And they were only a small part of the program: 1,200 new merchant ships, of 12,500,000 deadweight tons...