X-Day is Coming

Had the nation finally reached its wartime production peak? By last week, not yet a fortnight after Dday, there were significant and contradictory changes already appearing in many & many a war plant of the nation. The U.S. was still spewing out a rising total of munitions every day. But like the first ripples of a change in the tide, the U.S. last week could see a ripple of cutbacks flowing across the country.

¶ In Baton Rouge, La. a $25,000,000 alumina plant began to close down.

¶ In Kearny, N.J. the Federal...

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