Evening star., 1943-07-08
American Production
To Top Axis 7 10 | in
1943, Nelson Says
By the Associated Press.

States War Production Board re-
ported today to the Canadian people
Before the years end Canada and
the United States will be producing
q plane every 42s minutes around
the clock, Mr.. Nelson said in a
speech at the Canadian Club, and
already they have turned out
enough small arms ammunition te
fire 1900 bullets at every soldier In
the Axis armies.
All the United Nations this veal
will make three times the Axis out
put of arms, and next year four
times, the United States production
chief declared
These figures speak to the world
in big voice" Mr.. Nelson said
And if the Nazi and the Jap war
lords are not completely insane, they
will recognize that the voice is the
voice of doom"
Renewed Effort Urged.
For the second time this week
Mr.. Nelson spoke guardedly of i'm
pending vast military developments
to urderscore a plea for renewed
production effort Ito defeat the
enemy so crushingly that his spirit
will be broken and the day of his
unconditional surrender fastened"
You will shortly see gigantic bat
ties in which unheard-of quantities
of war materials will be consumed, -
he said. mo one familiar with the
situation dares to indulge in the
luxury of concentration on personal
problems. On the contrary, the
times call for a cooperative war
production effort of increased pace
and magnitude, matching the mill
tary effort"
Mr.. Nelson said he would warn
the enemy mot to take too much
comfort from the so-called sagging
OF the home front in the United
States in recent days"
=. Il would be the last to attempt to
minimize the serious effects of the
spasmodic strikes and riots on the
war production program" he said.
"On the other hand. there is a
tendency to exaggerate the implia-
cions of these disturbances. The
great bulk of war producers. both
managers and workers in the United
States, have not been diverted from
the essential tasks For the first five
months of 1943, for example, only
1100ths of l per cent of production
was delayed by strikes.
Delays Called Temporary.
These difficult and trying situa-
tions which arise are in my judg-
ment temporary though spectacular
eddies in the main stream of Ameri-
can production
Mr.. Nelson flew to Toronto for an
inspection of Canadian war plants
and was scheduled to attend a meet
ing of the combined Omitted States
Canadian BRITISH Production and
Resources Board in Ottawa tomor-
row.
All of the major belligerents have
either reached or are approaching a
peak level in war productive effort"
he told the Club audience. But
while on this continent it might be
possible to achieve some further in
tensiflcation of that effort, we have
every reason to believe that in Italy
and Germany the wholesale destruc-
ton of plants from the air is reduc-
ing munitions output we'll below
their recent peak levels"
American Production Tops Axis.
Mr.. Nelson said he hoped the en-
envy would take note of the produc-
tive achievement of the North Amer
lean continent alone, eliminating
that of Russia, England and the
other Allies.
Il want to stress the fact that
this one continent is producing the
materials of war at a rate enor-
mously higher than anything that
the Axis could show at the peak of
Its strength, and that this year in
this continent alone we will produce
almost twice as much in combat
munitions ~s the Axis.
I'm view of these facts let the
enemy exercise his Imagination on
the strength of all the United Ma
tions combined -.
Since the outbreak of the war the
organized effort of Canada and the
United States has produced almost
115,000 plares. The rise in the pro-
duction curve shows that we soon
will be able to produce in a single
year more planes than we have made
in the past three years.
. Before the end of this year we
will be producing a completed plane
every 42a minutes around the clock
every day of the month. The cities
of the Ruhr have felt only the first
touch OF this production trend.
What will they feel as it goes on?
That is only the beginning of the
story. More than 175,000 larger
'caliber guns of all kinds for our
ground armies alone have been
finished. Nearly 100000 machine
guns and 100000 rifles and sub
machine guns have been manufac-
'tured.
Figures Are Given.
Between us we have made almost
200 100000 rounds Of artillery am
munition-and this does not count
ammunition for naval guns. And to
deal in astronomical figures, our
ordnance plants have so far turned
out about 25,O00,000,00O rounds OF
small arms munition-enough to
let us fire over 1900 bullets at every
soldier in the Axis armies. And the
current rate of ammunition produc-
ton is now incredibly high
80 Close to 10000 tanks and
tank chassis have so far rolled off
the assembly lines of our two ma
!tions and more than 100000 trucks
And as an indication of what CO.
operation means I should like to
point out to the Axis that Canada
alone has turned out over half a
million trucks-or about one third
of the total-although her popula-
ton is only about per cent of
the combined populations RESPONSE
BILE for this record production.
Again, of the nearly 10000 scout |
cars armored cars and similar COM
bat vehicles which represent our
current annual production rate Cam
ada is supplying close to 10000.