The Army Ordnance Association is an organization of civilian engineers and executives whose companies make military supplies. Last week A. O. A. members, who know too much to be fooled, heard a progress report on U. S. preparedness from Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen; from the Army's Chief of Ordnance, Major General Charles M. Wesson; from Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson :
> Plane production is behind schedule. Mr. Knudsen had expected 1,133 planes in October, now hopes to get 900 to 950 (be cause, said he, manufacturers have had to...
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