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...some departments of his new plant on three shifts. Because Rustless sells only ingots, billets, slabs, bars, rods and wire, does no fabricating, "Tut" is not sure what percent of his sales go into defense. But stainless steel is used for turbine blades in warships, for the barrels of Garand rifles; in bomb sights, landing gear, machine-gun mounts, control equipment and other aircraft parts...
Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Johnson is a tall, gun-happy young Bostonian who invented a semi-automatic rifle, then outraged the Ordnance Department by insisting out loud that his weapon was better than the Army's Garand rifle (TIME, April 8). The Army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., after many bumbles, last week had Garand production up to 2,300 per week. After a year of agonized effort to tool up for the complex Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson...
...machine-gun outlook. Colt, the only U. S. builder, is working almost full time for the British. Three General Motors plants are tooling up to plug the gap, but quantity production of machine guns is a year to 14 months away. The Army is now getting 2,000 Garand semi-automatic rifles a week, confidently expects 5,000 weekly by Jan. 1, 1941, but at that rate it would require four years to turn out a million rifles...
...There were few .50-calibre anti-aircraft guns. The shortage was made up by lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented by the day from civilians to fill out the National Guard's complement of rolling stock...
Though the test was to be conducted by the Garand's sponsors, the new Winchester had an advance testimonial from the boss of the Marines. Said General Holcomb last month: "We have seen a demonstration of one of these rifles and it appeared to us to be a complete answer to what we need. It will cost about half the cost of the Garand rifle...