Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-02-20
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1912
AMERICAN ARMS PRODUCTION


production today And will describe it ex
cpt general Facts and figures which could be Of any
the credit of the American press that 1t mas accepted
workable voluntary censorship system which keeps the
public nothing which could be used advantage by the ne
gence and espionage services of the Axis powers
But nonstatistica reports being printed written by
who have been permitted to what industry dong Tor the war
effort At long last those reports are becoming encouraging
mum war production approaching that goal and in
instances schedules being exceeded Industry big and
little making the complex change from peaceprodUctOn to
warprOducton with far greater CELEBRITY and economy oil noQ
many expected And Washington Defense Head Donald
Nelson making unprecedented recently given
him to weed out bureau heads and employees VINO threatened "
smother the defense drive in Ied-tape
The main emphasis arplanes. As Time writes, THE
felt imagined the full and awful might
power What the Germans did with planes in conquerng
Europe regarded merely the beginning Ships of almost in
credible range epowe and load capacity planned Today
Of 22O0 horsepower Designers say that such engines will
ing months in the Atlantic Monthly Major de Seve
said Research is proceeding successfully arpane engines
that develop much 5000 horsepower The bomb
ers of tomorrow fly of explosives "A
will accomplish much destruction in sin
bombngs At least 200 Coventres could be destroyed
In the meantime this country is building planes which
plain most effective weapon
any nation can use adequately supported with sea and land
high proportion OF giant fou-engne ships of the Flying
Fortress and Consolidated B24 types 1t those ships which
the Dutch have used effectively harry and destroy
shipping and military concentrations To quote Time again
with which air strikes the u S. is far and ahead
of the rest of the world And the of the world combined
cannot equal potential bomber production capacity
The disasters and Allies have suffered the
Pacific be laid to but thing lack of supplies and
ment and terrible nferory in arpower In the Philippines
Mayan campaigns apan control of the has been almost
unquestoned Mere handfus of Allied planes have into
ton against verabe enemy planes The Allied pilots
and ships have given magnificent account of themselves but
in the long the very weight of numbers the day
That is what working for nowto gain for ourselves
and the United Nations the vital weight of numberin planes
IN ships in gunsWhich essential to victory Everyone who
has actually action this that the Jap
British
that plane for plane they have doubt of the R. A. F ability
to Guido Goerngs LUftwa The task is simply to produce
enough equipment and transport it to the fighting fronts to
the great numerical the
That will not be done in hurry Churchill has said that
least another must before it will be possible for the
Allies to effectively take the offensive Other authorities plan
three fveyear 1t will be hard and costly regain
positions the has sezedn the Far East Europe in
Africa The factories of America have been given production
job which unprecedented in world history They have accepted
that job without reservation.