Less Butter

So far in World War II the U. S. machine-tool industry has acted on the assumption that it can supply guns and butter both. In its war-boomed growth from an output of $200,000,000 in 1939 to a probable output of $650,000,000 this year, the industry has turned out tools for new automobiles along with equipment for aircraft, tank and cannon builders. Last week machine-tool men were told that the butter business must stop.

The order, tagged "request," was issued by OPM's Priority Director Ed Stettinius. Effective March 2, he told machine-tool men, deliveries of machine tools may be made only to customers who have 0PM priority ratings, i.e., to manufacturers who will use them in defense work.

Most affected by Ed Stettinius' order was Detroit's motor industry, already reconciled to hardships for national defense.

There will be no major changes on 1942 models.

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