Still Necessary To Ration Steel
LONDON, Mon. (10 a.m.)—Britain’s 1947 steel output slightly exceeded .12,500,000 tons, but even with greater production in 1948 it would still be necessary to ration supplies, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps) told a Press conference, Reuters reports.
Agricultural machinery makers would receive a very substantial increase and the Ministries of Supply and Transport would also receive mor'e. Supplies for factory and Government buildings would be cut by twofifths and for shipbuilding by one-fifth. There would be increased allocations of steel for the engineering, coalmining and electricity industries. Sir Stafford said he did not think the reduced shipbuilding allocation would bring British shipbuilding down to the figure desired by the United States State Department.
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Northern Advocate, 13 January 1948, Page 5
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