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...dodge Russian interference, the Germans, sick & tired, announced last week that they were shifting their news broadcasts for home consumption from the long wave Deutschlandsender station near Berlin to a medium-wave station near Breslau. The Russians followed them, still interjecting "Lies, all lies,""More fairy tales tomorrow" between the German news broadcasts...
Knee-deep in its $400,000,000 worth of war orders, Chrysler should be in all the way by February. Then M-3 medium tanks should be rolling off 15 a day (against 5 a day now); then the assembling of Martin B-26 medium bomber fuselages should be started; then Bofors 40-mm. anti-aircraft guns should be in production. Already Chrysler's engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine, a 500 h.p. liquid-cooled tank engine; a new airplane landing gear strut, etc. Half...
...week it was a whirring, clanking hive of millers, cutters, pressers and riveters (see cut). Eighty percent of the machines which Chrysler needs to step up its tank-production rate to 15 per day have already been installed. Meanwhile Chrysler has just received a big order for a new medium tank of later design, and in order to get tanks rolling fast and steadily has gone right ahead with the earlier type while tooling...
...late as June 15, the U.S. had only 128 light tanks, one medium tank, no heavy tanks at all. Prospects for delivery of light tanks: 300 a month by October. Prospects for delivery of heavy tanks: none have even been ordered. (It takes 397 light and medium tanks to equip each of the five armored divisions the Army will have in service next month. But the Army wants three more armored divisions...
...some of the motormakers, there was a silver lining to OPM's order: truck production was to be increased by about 200,000 units (to 1,189,000 for the model year that began Aug. 1). Manufacturers of heavy and medium trucks were to get A-3 priorities on materials (with a careful check to see that materials went into trucks, not passenger cars). But this same priority rating has not saved railroad-car builders from having to curtail production for lack of steel...