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Last week answers were given to five Administration spokesmen-Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Stimson, Knox and OPM Director General Knudsen-who fortnight ago said on behalf of the Lend-Lease Bill that the U. S. was in imminent danger if Britain fell (TIME, Jan. 27). Summoned by Republican minority members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, opponents who did not believe that the U. S. would be greatly endangered if Britain fell paraded in & out of a jampacked committee room, thumping desks, shaking heads, pointing fingers, answering one overstated case with equal overstatements. The committee was prepared to report the bill...
...mass-production genius into the job of building airplanes for national defense? Fortnight ago, Ford and Chrysler announced that they would help with the business of building bombers. Last week the rest of the answer came from G. M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson (successor to Big Bill Knudsen). General Motors was going into the bomber business, too. From the three, the U. S. should get its bombers at the rate of 5,000 a year, by March...
Meanwhile from Washington Big Bill Knudsen added a word. The four assembly plants, he told newsmen, will all be finished by winter. By early 1942 the Defense Commission expects a monthly production from them of 300 medium, 125 heavy bombers. Bill Knudsen said he had not yet given up hope of 33,000 planes by July 1942 (19,000 for the U. S., 14,000 for Britain) although "we were slow getting under way." The biggest part of aircraft's tooling up will be finished by April or May. said he, and in the long...
...Bill Knudsen, working hard and conscientiously at a tough job, might have excellent grounds for hoping to set a production total of 33,000 by mid-1942. But since the U. S. had loafed into its armament program, it had learned a lot. About production it had learned what the experts knew all along: that expansion is a slow, complicated business. It had learned that the war may be decided by the German push in the spring. It had seen in black & white the fateful figures: should Britain be defeated the Axis will outnumber...
Farm to Factory. Four months ago the site of the Detroit Tank Arsenal was a farm, turning brown and sere under a hazy autumn sun. During the summer Big Bill Knudsen had called bulky K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., and asked him, as one motormaker to another: Could Chrysler build the Army a medium tank? "K. T." said, sure. Could he see one to get an idea what it was like...