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...Hercules and Du Pont contracts were only a start. Before this empty breech of U. S. defense is properly loaded, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, has many an other contract to allot. Congress has already appropriated and authorized $244,000,000, is now ready to lay out $700,000,000 more for powder plants, for great factories where smokeless and high explosive will be loaded into small-arms ammunition (pistol, rifle, machine gun), aerial bombs, artillery shells. The Army has laid out plans for building 33 plants in five U. S. areas, has specified that...
Standard capacity of each of the 18 plants making explosives will be 200,000 lb. in an eight-hour day. Not until all are built, not until the 15 supplementary loading and fuse plants are completed, can General Wesson and his staff of technicians breathe easily. They will not breathe easily for a long time. Best estimate is that Du Pont and Hercules, starting their building almost together and putting on full steam, will not be in production for twelve or 13 months. How soon other contractors would volunteer to take on the building and operation of other similar plants...
...Surface units cannot of their own resources cover, protect and defend the areas of vital interest without the assist ance of strategically located coastal or island shore-based aircraft.") The most revealing thing about U. S. Defense was a little slip of the tongue by Major General Charles M. Wesson...
...General Wesson's job as Chief of Ordnance is to keep the Army supplied with the best & latest weapons. Before a Congressional committee, which published his testimony last week, he recited current Army shortages (TIME, May 27). The Congressmen were thoroughly alarmed by his testimony. But what might well have shocked them was his casual statement, in response to the Congressmen's cries of alarm: the figures should be "emblazoned on the sides of the Flatiron Building...
...Army, the horse up to last week was still holding its own. The Chief of Cavalry (which includes the Army's only mechanized brigade) was still a horseman (Major General John K. Kerr), who gets the heaves when he has to think about gasoline engines. General Wesson's offhand remark told more than he knew about the attitudes which underlie, enmesh, explain the Army and Navy...