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(010 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 The United States defence programme is reaching such proportions that it is already taxing the nation s industrial resources, immense though these are. The most serious shortages are in steel, aluminium and oil —oil mainly because of the difficulty of providing tankers. Some concern has been caused by a statement by Air Eugene Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, that the increasing scarcity of scrap steel and pig iron is likely to force curtailment of production unless new supplies are found. Mr Grace said the nation was feeling the pinch of ten years’ exports of scrap to Japan to feed the .Japanese military machine. The industry and the Government are discussing measures to cope with the shortage. The British purchasing authorities have been asked to confine their requests as iar as possible to finished products rather than ingots of semi-finished steel.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 8
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