1943 Goals

For 1943 the U.S. has set its production goal as a ratio, not a number, but the ratio is staggering: double the amount produced last year. Up will go the proportion of aircraft, shipping, naval vessels. Down will go the proportion of tanks, artillery, ammunition. But the total is to be up 100%.

For a hint of what this means, citizens could remember the Government's recent announcement that 49,000 planes were produced last year. Left for the man in the street will be what officials term "a lean but healthy civilian economy." To many who have not yet felt the full pinch of war, the degree of leanness will be surprising before year's end.

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