Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-23
Output Of Arms
Reported Near
Victory Goal


never before. Will spend S4S000,-
600 600 in 1912 alone and produce
as many tanks and planes as Hitler
did IN all the years before 1899
when he was preparing for world
conquest" the Office of Facts and
Figures predicted today.
The forecast. outlining broad de-
tails of the American armament
program, was contained IN g.
page Report TO the Nation pre-
pared under tho direction Of OFF
director Archibald MacLeiSh at
-ithc request of President RooSc-
welt.
The OFF is the agency charged
with corrcIlatng government IN
formation.
MOBILIZATION or NATION
The report stated that Mr..
lRoOScvclt'S victory goal OF un-
lprecedentcd production Of planes,
tanks. guns and ships can be
achieved however. only by chic
mobilization OF every available
Imam. woman. dollar and thing
everY plant tool, machine and bit
lof material
| Unlike the special Senate de-
IfcnSc investigation committee
(which took a pcSSlmistic view OF
American Warplane production.
the Report 10 the Nation" de-
Icla'ed that the United States now
has -four types OF combat planes
better than anything yet produced
abroad, 50 far as is known
| Other highllghtS Of the report:
New SeleCtive service lcgiS-
Il latlon viii make possible the
mobilization OF 1000, 00O-man
army, greatest in United States
history This compares with the
standing army OF 100000 mon
and 1880 officers in September.
| 1899. At the outbreak Of the
European war.
C-The American armament in
- duStry Is potentially the
greatest IN the world compared
with the situation IN 1889 when
the munitions industry in the
United States was not OF any
great significance
depending for victory must
- reach = rate OF $4,000 OOO.-
600 in 1912 and S60000,OOO,OO0
IN 1913.
( 1-Although actual deliveries of
r lcnd-lcase supplies 10 the
United Natlons-Great Britain,
Russia. China, the Netherlands
and others have only amounted
= TO S600OO000O, future exports
Will be gigantic when we achieve
about war production. ="
The navy engaging the
- enemy in both the Atlantic
and the Pacific. IS rapidly be-
coming tWO-oCcan fighting
force IN action as we'll as in
name. Two thousand new planes
are IN The navy'S hands. Being
built are Is bai'lcShipS. IL air
craft carriers. - cruisers. 1913
dcStroyerS and 73 submarines.
"NO other nation in the world
has ever undertaken or could
ever undertake such "A program"
the report SAID I'm 1912 alone
We will produce nearly three
times a. many weapons and
supplies Of war as in all the
months since the fall Of France.
Army war plane productions
has been stepped up TO the point
where. with Great Britain. we
soon will exceed the plane out
put Of the Axis countries" the
report stated.
1000 PLANES DELIVERED
The report revealed that the
army air corps fcrrying service
has already delivered more than
1000 planes. presumably TO Brit
mn Il COST or $4,000 900 in
lcnd-loaSc funds. Furthermore. a
Subsidy has been granted 10 Pam
American Always for a new route
across the South Atlantic.
Another lend-leaSe airline
reaches 10 Iceland" II added.
The report said that the armY'S
Somi-automatic Garand rifles arc
coming off the production line at
a rate Of better than 600 a day
and both light and heavy guns
arc being produced in quantity.
on the homo front the report
cited an increase Of II per cent
IN tho total cost Of living since
September 1899 More than four
ffthS Of this increase. II said, has
taken place IN the last nine
months and If tho trend continues
the increase will 90 10 ID per cent
by March.