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Gamble on 1953. Actually, there had never been any plans to expand production fivefold this year. The Defense Department, gambling that Russia will not be ready to attack until 1953, concentrated on getting the plane manufacturers to expand their plants and get ready for a big jump in production if needed in two years. For example, Northrop Aircraft, loaded with a $300 million backlog chiefly to produce the Air Force's Scorpion F89 all-weather interceptor, had rearranged its plant "to create more efficient flow lines," had thus channeled men and materials away from current production. In Santa Monica...
Primary iron & steel production has more than doubled since 1939, electrical equipment manufacturing has tripled, aluminum production has increased fivefold. Canada has become an exporter instead of a consistent importer of such hard goods as machine tools and aircraft. Said Abbott: "We are in fact now selling some of the products of our manufacturing industry in the markets of the most highly industrialized countries of the world...
Like a sales manager giving a quiet pep talk, he urged British industry to go out and grab a larger slice of the dollar market. He proposed two "practical, realizable goals"- a fivefold increase in the number of British firms engaged in exporting to the U.S.; and a threefold increase of British exports to the dollar market (from $600 million to $1.8 billion...
...Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal at 18,000 new "assurances," more than fivefold the 3,340 it has received in the last eight months under the Displaced Persons...
Winthrop's quintet yesterday smashed out of a first-place tie with Eliot by downing the Mastodons 26 to 22 and claiming undisputed lead in intramural basketball. The game highlighted a fivefold inter-House field...