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...Plane production is behind schedule. Mr. Knudsen had expected 1,133 planes in October, now hopes to get 900 to 950 (be cause, said he, manufacturers have had to concentrate on plant expansion at the expense of current deliveries). His future schedule: 1,250 a month by Jan. 1; 1,500 by next July 1 ; 3,000 a month by early 1942. Production last month...
...Army Ordnance Association is an organization of civilian engineers and executives whose companies make military supplies. Last week A. O. A. members, who know too much to be fooled, heard a progress report on U. S. preparedness from Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen; from the Army's Chief of Ordnance, Major General Charles M. Wesson; from Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson...
...Commission has arranged to build eleven new plants to make powder, high explosives, ammonia, and to load shell cases. Five more are planned. Said Mr. Knudsen: "I need not tell you gentlemen that the powder question was awfully late in getting started. . . ." Last week Army men murmured that Franklin Roosevelt caused some of the delay by holding up contracts for new munitions plants. The Navy meantime allotted $96,000,000 to 15 ship and naval armor makers, to expand their production facilities...
...Contracts have been let for the bulk (more than $9,000,000,000) of a little over $12,000,000,000 in Army-Navy funds. Said Mr. Knudsen: ". . . Some time late next spring or early summer we will have something to show." "Miles ahead, miles behind." Last week the business-minded McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.'s Factory Management & Maintenance examined U. S. defense, printed these conclusions...
Positively, Wendell Willkie favored conscription; coordination of U. S. defense with that of Canada; appointments to defense posts of "capable men" irrespective of political considerations. One capable man he specified: William Knudsen. But, he insisted, such capable men should be given authority to be effective, there should be no withholding of authority, as at present, when the Defense Commission lacks a chairman and President Roosevelt keeps all power in his own hands...