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...steel mills centred around Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham so vast that the four largest can produce more steel than all Germany. The automobile industry which in a year produces 2,500,000 motor cars and could produce about 6,000,000, which directly or indirectly employs 6,380,000 workmen, which in a year uses 176,000 tons of iron, 329,900 tons of rubber; 63,000,000 square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales of cotton...
Great Britain. The BBC, to the much-enduring Britishers, has been a wishy-washy washout, broadcasting mainly late news, and such humdrum as the state of the wallabies at Whipsnade Zoo, the views of ruddy British workmen that things at home are not so bad. But in German, to Germany, the BBC is anything but wishy-washy. Nightly, the BBC exhorts Germans to rise, overthrow their leaders, bring peace to the world...
Anyone owning foreign securities who dropped in at a French bank to cash the coupons was asked if he was French. In case the answer was "yes," the bank deducted 36% of the payment as a tax. Down at the other end of the economic scale, French workmen found their overtime pay docked by a tax of 25% also for "national solidarity...
Quantity production serves two ends: 1) assembly lines reduce the proportionate need for skilled workmen, 2) it rapidly steps up the industry to meet possible wartime needs of the U. S. Some experts calculate the combat life of a warplane at 30 days, which means that soon after a war starts the size of a nation's air force would be the monthly capacity of its factories. Last week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian...
...production of aircraft for war it will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than 70% of capacity and finding no trouble getting workmen. In the propeller business Curtiss and Hamilton Standard (Pratt & Whitney corporate brother) were turning out all the props business needs without straining capacity and companies like The Sperry Gyroscope Co. had capacity for turning out plenty of instruments for every ship under order. The biggest problem of the industry may be post...