WAR ECONOMY: Musts for the Silver Months

Musts for the "Silver Months" "We've wasted the golden months in which we could have got fully ready, the months in which we could have expanded our steel industry, our chemical industry, our copper industry, and all the others. . . . But we still have ten silver months—the months which remain in 1942."

These sober words came from Don Nelson last week. A gun now, he said, is worth ten guns in 1943. He also listed three silver-month musts, upon which "maximum production at once" depends. The production news of the week gave clues to how he meant...

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