DEFENCE INDUSTRY
MR ROOSEVELT SATISFIED WITH PROGRESS fU P A.—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright| WASHINGTON, 29th November. Commenting on the decision of the ' Priorities Board not to make any order at present in respect of aircraft j factories. President Roosevelt said he j did n °t think it was necessary to inI voke the priorities order to give war- ! plane production precedence over commercial requirements. He felt the situation could be worked out without a formal order. The defence programme. he said, was progressing satisfactorily, and he was particularly pleased to hear that armour-plate production was improving. He said he had conferred with the Defence Commission in an effort to eliminate bottlenecks in the machine industry and also for a programme for speeding up the construction of destroy ers.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 2 December 1940, Page 2
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