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...rose North American Aviation President James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, a purple talker. Before a trainload of newsmen ogling his vast Kansas City plant, he flatly accused the automakers of fumbling their part of the plane program. Said he: "After 16 months we have not yet received a single part made by the automotive industry. . . . The biggest mistake ever made was to try to break in high-production organizations to airplane-manufacturing methods. ... If they don't catch up soon we're going to start turning out the parts ourselves...
Hurrah for the Dallas Morning News. It made Sam Rayburn mad and official Washington grumble, but the people of the U.S. got some news -3,300 planes a month, a trainload of tanks a day and from just one factory...
...them for weeks, had not dared to tell them. But the Speaker of the House is not subject to censorship. Said Sam Rayburn: "More than 3,300 planes are pouring out of our factories monthly . . . tank production is ahead of schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily. . . ." He said that the U.S. now has six times as many soldiers on the world's battlefronts as General Pershing had in 1918 after ten months of war,* that enough Garand rifles are on hand to equip every man who needs...
Chrysler already has three assembly lines of olive-drab tanks moving through its tank arsenal (soon it hopes to ship a trainload of tanks a day). Guns, shells and motors are at last in mass production. General Motors, once biggest of all automakers, is already producing arms of all kinds at the rate of a billion dollars a year. Packard and Studebaker are making airplane engines; Hudson makes anti-aircraft guns; Nash is at work on engines and propellers...
...where Tsar Alexander's Imperial Army almost captured Napoleon. An offensive on the Oka River cut down the crack tank Army of Colonel General Heinz Guderian, broodingly handsome pioneer of modern mechanized warfare. Russian forces cut his Panzers to shreds, took vast supplies of arms and material,-a trainload of newly arrived German tanks...