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...machine-tool industry, which up to 1940 had never produced more than a half billion dollars worth of products, turned out $1.3 billions. Alcoa, damned and doubly damned for the aluminum mess of 1941, smashed the ingot shortage and ended the year by producing about 88% of all aluminum in this country. Bethlehem Steel under the close-lipped Eugene G. Grace proved itself as finely tempered a war instrument as under the flamboyant Charlie Schwab. Detroit smothered some of its bitter labor-management rows under an uncataloguable output of tanks, Oerlikons, bombs, shells, time fuses and jeeps. The aircraft industry...
...still plagued by the scrap shortage. In August, for example, they operated at only 95% of capacity although they could have hit close to 103% if enough scrap had been available and small plants had been fully utilized. At peak output steelmakers could have made 500,000 additional ingot tons of steel last month...
...planners changed signals again on steel last week, recommended that ingot capacity be boosted from the present 88,569,970 tons to 98,279,970 tons by mid-1943, even if it takes more than 4,000,000 tons of steel desperately needed...
...possible? The U.S. has close to 50% of all the world's steel capacity, enough at full blast to roll out 90,000,000 ingot tons this year. How could this fail to be enough? There are all kinds of reasons-all of them shocking or tragic or both, none of them conclusive...
...result was the final absurdity of confusion: nobody in Washington could tabulate sense-making essential needs for even 85,000,000 ingot tons, but still practically no essential needs were being wholly filled. Sample confusion...