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...industry last week was face to face with its greatest single challenge since Pearl Harbor-an immediate and terrific expansion in escort vessel construction. To do the job requires not only a mighty effort by giant shipbuilders and steelmakers but also an almost fantastic production boost by thousands of small partsmakers of whom most U.S. citizens have never heard...
This is good but shipbuilders must do still better; the 1943 merchant ship goal is a 100% boost to 16,000,000 tons-less than the rate of production in hectic December but almost equal to Britain's entire merchant marine at War's beginning. Even so, most shipbuilders are sure they will make the goal with ships to spare. The means: 1) more prefabrication, 2) perfection of the assembly-line technique, 3) more welding and less riveting, 4) increased standardization of parts, gears and fittings. The chief danger now is shortage of materials...
...more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because it has all but crowded out open-pollinated corn in the corn belt...
First is an all-out attempt to boost farm prices by changing the bases for calculating the farm parity (although farm income now is 15% above parity), busting loose OPA and its price ceilings...
...idea is to hold prices to current levels as far as possible, but there will be changes: some stores on high margins will be cut to lower ceilings; others with exceptionally low margins will be allowed to boost prices...