TOPICS OF THE DAY
American Machine Power “If America’s metal industries were to be turned over to the manufacture of aircraft, tanks, guns and other engines of war, the weight of the resulting output, if it could be effectively employed, would be sufficient to blow to pieces any combination of possible enemies. There can be no doubt about that,” writes Mr Walter Hill in the News Chronicle, London. “It is, of course, true that the decisive factor at the moment is not so much America’s potential munition-producing capacity as the rate at which she can change over from the manufacture of motor-cars, typewriters and other metal goods to that of aircraft, tanks and guns. Once she had made up her mind to go all out, however, her munitions output is likely to expand at an astonishing rate and put that of Germany and Italy into the shade. She has all the organisers, the skilled labour and the raw materials she needs ”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 4
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