Evening star., 1942-06-14
Pooling Of War
Materials Hints
Vast Changes
U. S.-British Boards
May Lay Framework
For New World
By JAMES MARROW and
WILLIAM PINKERTON.


NEW YORK. June 13.-This was
week which will be remembered per-
haps forever.
This country and Great Britain
became the wartime supply base
and bread basket for the United Ma
tions in a program that may have
vast meaning for all men after the
war
Then this Government announced
signing Of q lend-lease war agree
ment with the Soviet Union that
also laid down the principles of
postwar program Of economic COL
laboration.
At the same time Great Britain
disclosed a 20-year mutual assist
ance pact with Russia that also
significantly provided for the secur-
ity and economic prosperity of
Europe after the war.
On the same day this country
and her British ally announced Gre
alton Of combined production, re-
sources and food boards, Donald
NJ Nelson, War Production Board
chief, hinted at what the future
may hold.
More Than Enough for All.
After asserting this country's war
production was higher than we had
any reason to suppose 1t could be"
and that I'VE are in the position
OF men doing the impossible" Nell
son said:
The sum total of the worlds
greatest possible output of goods,
divided by the sum total of the
world S inhabitants, no longer means
less than enough for everybody. 1t
means more than enough.
The possibilities in that simple
statement are beyond calculation
and what We are fighting for is the
right to turn some of those possi-
bllltles into realities"
Just as the Joint Productions and
resources Board will assure war
TOOLS for the fighting men of the
United Nations, so will the Food
board assure food to them and their
civilians. '-'
Creation of the Joint Food Board
ioloWed by few days setting IN
IN this country of a National Food
board to have full control over all
american civilian and military food
So confident of its growing MIGHT
hao this country become that pres.
loent Roosevelt decided war pro-
auction had approached the point
Wnere specific production details
hltherto a secret-might hurt rather
than help the enemy.
He ordered production figures
prepared so he could release them
at a press conference soon.
Plane Output Scars.
One phase of the tremendous
American war output was disclosed
by Col John H. Jouett. president of
the Aeronautical Chamber of Com
merce, who reported military air.
plane production had increased IS
per cent in the six months since the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
But there were other signs that
this country was on its way to be-
coming a gigantic, dominant world
force:
The War Production Board an
nounced that the United States.
since beginning to arm in mid-194O
had spent $30.615 900 900 and that
expenditures for war in Nav were
s3,853 900 900, two and one-half times
greater than in last November and
four times greater than the ex-
penditures of May, 1941.
On top of this announcement
President Roosevelt asked Congress
for new l943 War Department ap-
preparation of s39,417,827, 1897. larg-
est in history. and for an additional
Sl37,0l8,890 for the WPB.
The Bureau of the Budget said
these requests brought projected war
expenditures since June, 1910, to
about sl99, IT'S 900 900 and estimated
they would be well beyond the $780,
600 900 900 mark by the end of the
month.
New Curbs Awaited.
Rubber. however, still remained
the national headache.
The President said he hoped a
Nationwide campaign to collect
rubber scrap could be completed in
two weeks. thus quickly disclosing
the exact extent of the Nations rub
ber shortage.
Although Nation wide gasoline ra-
tioning was delayed-or possibly
averted-there were other fields in
which Americans could feel the
pinch of war in a warning given by
the WPB which said that:
There may be rationing of tea,
coffee and cocoa; transportation may
be restricted; bananas are scarce,
fuel oil will be, and so may fish.
There will be prioritieS on power,
the WPB said. but there is no ration
ing of clothing ahead this year and
there need be no worry about food
The military wage adjustment bill
fixing a minimum pay scale of $50
a month for the armed forces now
rests with the President, since Con-
gress finally gave its approval to the
measure.