Business: Detroit at War

From the Automotive Council for War Production this week came a stirring report on industry's first six months at war:

> The automotive industry has undertaken to build 75% of all the aircraft engines, more than 33% of the machine guns, 40% of the tanks, besides all the motorized units. One company alone is making more than half the Diesel engines for the whole U.S. Navy.

> The industry is working three shifts a day on war orders totaling $14,000,000,000. In terms of pleasure cars and trucks, that would mean 15,000,000 units—three years' peacetime production.

> It is cutting costs and...

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