Selling is a 1942 magazine article about: USA War Production Title: The Miracle of War Production Author: Albert W. AtwoodColor paintings by Thornton Oakley Subtitled “For Victory the United States Transforms Its Complex Industry into the Biggest Factory and Mightiest Arsenal the World Has Ever Known” Quoting the 1st page “This country which we love is producing all-out for war. At 1st there was only a trickle, then it became a mighty stream, and now it is a deluge of ships, planes, tanks, and guns roaring down the assembly lines of America. True, the war finally must be won on the battlefields, but it cannot be won without production, and it can be lost in the shops and factories. The enemy has had a head start of ten years in mobilizing all of his resources for the sole purpose of building an invincible military machine. Japan began to pile up armaments in 1930 and Germany in 1933, in addition to which they now have the booty seized in conquered countries. We have not only to overcome their current production but their enormous reserves as well. This war has an incredibly voracious, an unbelievably stupendous appetite for materials, supplies, equipment, machines, munitions, and armaments. According to President Roosevelt, value of next year's production of war goods may be almost one-quarter more than the total national income for the prosperous year of 1940. When the President announced last January that 60,000 planes must be produced this year and 125,000 next, he was stepping up the manufacture of military aircraft in much the same ratio as if he had asked for nearly 15,000,000 new automobiles this year and 30,000,000 new ones next year! Even this startling comparison doesn't take into account the fact that a military airplane is larger than an automobile, far more complicated, and far more subject to change in design. The President asked for a new military plane every 8 minutes, on the average, this year and every 4 minutes next. He was asking for this year alone more than 3 times the number that have been manufactured in the thirty-2yrs since Orville Wright delivered the 1st such plane to the Signal Corps of the Army. But the President also asked for 45,000 tanks this year and 75,000 next, although in the 14 yrs up to 1934 only 30 tanks had been built in this country and those only in Army arsenals. In fact hardly a manufacturer had ever seen 1 of these monsters, which, even in the medium type, weighs twenty times as much as the average automobile. But the President asked for more than planes and tanks. He demanded 800 new merchant vessels this year and 1,500 next, although, except for oil carriers and passenger ships, only 2 had been built in this country from 1922 to 1937 and only 2 were added in 1938. Besides he asked that each 1 be constructed far more rapidly than ever before. But that is not all. There must be equivalent quantities of naval vessels, of guns of every description, of shells, bombs, torpedoes, explosives, parachutes, and searchlights. The Army alone buys in excess of half a million…" 7” x 10”, 42 pages, 40 B&W images plus sixteen color paintingsThese are pages from an actual 1942 magazine. No reprints or copies. 42L1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and adsThousands of advertisement pages and old articlesAnything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. Thanks For Looking! Luke 12: 15 Note to CANADIAN purchasers: Since 2007 I've only been charging 5% GST on purchases. Thanks to a recent CRA audit I must change to the full GST/HST charge. Different provinces have different rates, though most are just 5%. My GST/HST number is 84416 2784 RT0001 Powered by eBay Turbo Lister
