“ON THEIR TOES”

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 4

“ON THEIR TOES”

AMERICANS AT WAR HUGE FACTORY PRODUCTION “ Factories from coast to coast are working 24 hours a day and seven days a week, and everybody men, women, and children are on their toes,” writes a resident of Pittsburg, capital of the great industrial State of* Philadelphia, to a relative in Te Awamutu. “ The, weekly output figures are closely guarded, of course, but hundreds of automobile firms will soon be turning out in a month what Germany, Italy, and Japan could not turn out in a year. Perhaps people may think I am exaggerating, but things move so much more rapidly in the States than they do in any other country in the world. Automobile factories are being switched over from cars to planes, tanks, and tractors, and the American people are working as never before. “ The call has been sounded for 7,000,000 men in uniform,” the writer continues, “ and then we can pour out another 20,000,000. We have the resources, the man-power, the inventions, and the material, and all these are fop our Allies to share. Never were Britain and her people and the United States so united as they are at this moment.” The writer adds that he was certain the “Australian and New Zealand lads would give the Japanese a hot reception if they tried to invade either of the Dominions.”