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WAR PRODUCTION.
AMERICAN FIGURES.
Lag Behind Scheduled Output.
WASHINGTON. Jan 22.-The War
Production Board Chief of Opera
tions (Mr Hiland Batcheller) has re
ported that munitions production
and war construction in December
was one per cent above November
figures, but two per cent behind the
sheduled output. It was valued at
5,445,000,000 dollars, compared with
a scheduled 5,546,000,000 dollars.
In the critical programmes, aero
planes were 32 per cent ahead of the
November totals; artillery ammuni
tion was up 5 per cent, heavy field
artillery production increased 12 per
cent, with mortars 61 per cent up.
Tanks and heavy trucks showed an
increase of 11 per cent, whilst trucks
and bus tyres' production increased
by 10 per cent. Cotton duck pro
duced was six per cent higher.
In order to meet the schedules.
January production must show the
following increases in the critical
programmes: Aircraft, 27 per cent;
artillery ammunition. 14 per cent;
heavy field artillery, 5 per cent;
Navy rockets, 92 per cent; truck
and bus tyres, 17 per cent; dry cell
batteries, 49 per cent; and mortars
56 per cent.
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