Book/Printed Material Progress of the defense program
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Image 1 of Progress of the defense program- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 2 of Progress of the defense program- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 3 of Progress of the defense program 77TH CONGRESS DOCUMENT 2d Session SENATE No 157 PROGRESS OF THE DEFENSE PROGRAM REPORD OF THE _ DIRECTOR OFFICE OF FACTS AND FIGURES TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 4 of Progress of the defense program SUBMITTED BY MR BARKLEY IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 24 legislative day January 23 1942 Ordered That the report of the Office of Facts and Figures on the progress…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 5 of Progress of the defense program RVS17 42 REQUEST FOR REPORT Tue Wuite House Washington December 2 1941 My Dear Mr MacLetsn As you know I am most anxious that the general public be fully informed concerning the…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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- Date: 1941
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Image 7 of Progress of the defense program LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL JANUARY 14 1942 My Drar Mr Preswent I have the honor to submit herewith the report on the progress of the defense effort you have asked the Office of…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 8 of Progress of the defense program The question the American people now wish answered is not the question of American production of war materials of American con sumption of consumer goods over the 18 months from the fall…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 9 of Progress of the defense program REPORT TO THE NATION Introduction to Total War We have been at war for more than a month American soldiers and marines have fought at Wake Island Guam Midway and the Philippines…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 10 of Progress of the defense program This year 8000000 tons of merchant shipping Next year 10000000 tons of merchant shipping No other nation in the world has ever undertaken or could ever undertake such a program In 1942…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 11 of Progress of the defense program in the spring of 1940 revealed the full power of the Nazi war machine and our peril On May 28 1940 the Presi dent created the National Defense Advisory Commission partly composed…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 12 of Progress of the defense program The dollar translated into the tools of war is one yard stick by which we can measure what we have done On July 1 1940 with the tragedy of Dunkirk fresh be…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 13 of Progress of the defense program THE NAVY Full Speed Ahead In 1922 the American Navy honoring the promises made at the Washington Arms Conference began to scrap and strip and sink more than a million tons of…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 14 of Progress of the defense program missioned 25 new combatant ships It had added 2000 planes to its hangars and its aircraft carriers Its new chain of overseas bases extended far into both oceans and it had enrolled…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 15 of Progress of the defense program American sailors and marines are now serving in New foundland they are serving at Bermuda they are serving at Great Eixxuma Island in the Bahamas they are serving at Antigua Jamaica St…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 16 of Progress of the defense program shipyards shared in the work gaining valuable experience for the big job ahead A Naval Problem Without Parallel The Navys task today is twofoldit has the greatest battle of its life on…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 17 of Progress of the defense program THE ARMY The Two Most Important Weapons Since the spring of 1940 the United States Army has undergone a sixfold expansion in manpower and has made remarkable progress toward its thirtytwofold expansion…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 18 of Progress of the defense program Stocks of Army clothing and personal equipment now on hand are sufficient to maintain the current Army and to permit orderly replacement Additional supplies are accumulating to care for new increases in…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 19 of Progress of the defense program The rate of tank production has been pyramiding and at present far exceeds estimates of a year ago The 1942 goal of 45000 tanks is great enough to equip and main tain…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 20 of Progress of the defense program The manning of these warplanes has required an im mense training program for pilots bombardiers navi gators gunners observers and mechanics In 1940 fiy ing officers were being trained at the rate…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 21 of Progress of the defense program the brakeman on the Northern Pacifie who used to work out of St Paul the student the school teacher the clerk the man who ran a newspaper stand in New Orleans young…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 22 of Progress of the defense program Yet as Secretary Stimson said just before the Axis struck In the light of present world conditions the Army which we are now training is far from large Our total military forces…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 23 of Progress of the defense program THE JOINT EFFORT Our Unique War Weapon The sun never sets on the men and materials of the LendLease Act passed by Congress a scant 10 months ago It is a unique…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 24 of Progress of the defense program The relatively small trickle of assistanceso 1t was described last Septembercan hardly be called a river even now But it is a stream and it is growing fast Last March only 18000000…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 25 of Progress of the defense program British who had continued to buy their necessities of war were running out of dollars Ships were being sunk in the Atlantic at the rate of 5000000 tons a year On January…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 26 of Progress of the defense program LendLease in the Air Of the total of 28 billion dollars appropriated for avia tion 27 billions already have been earmarked and con tracts up to 18 billions have been let Few…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 27 of Progress of the defense program are expected to be stepped up rapidly This will include large quantities of oil and gasoline LendLease Food The millionth ton of American food has safely arrived in England This has defeated…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 28 of Progress of the defense program until after the war The law says the benefit to the United States may be payment or repayment in kind or in property or any other direct or indirect benefit which the…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 29 of Progress of the defense program THE BATTLE OF ECONOMIES The Silent War While our sea land and air fighters are meeting the Axis throughout the world action has been joined on still another front This silent and…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 30 of Progress of the defense program tungsten that comes from China Bolivia and the Argen tine Platinum is needed in the manufacture of smoke less powder Platinum comes from Colombia Canada South Africa and the Soviet Union South…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 31 of Progress of the defense program Our Government also has worked to break cartel ar rangements under which certain of our products were shut off from South America and other markets of the world Foreign Funds Control Not…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 32 of Progress of the defense program machine Japans purchases of mercuryvital in certain explosivesincreased 240 times in 1940 over the amounts acquired in 1938 Her purchases of zine increased 60 times In a 214year period she bought 4350000…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 33 of Progress of the defense program The names on the Blacklista Whos Who of Axis undercover agents and their dummiesrepresent months of investigation and intelligence work by the Office of the Coordinator of InterAmerican Affairs the Department of…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 34 of Progress of the defense program in storage the tin plate was consigned to an industrial concern in a nation now dominated by the Axis Thou sands of tons of aluminum and iron and steel products originally billed…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 35 of Progress of the defense program entire exportable surplus of almost all their strategic ma terials We have made similar arrangements for the control of Colombian platinum and Cuban sugar Supplying a Hemisphere Choking off the enemys sources…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 36 of Progress of the defense program industry of South America We have given high priority ratings for railroad equipment to Brazil The allocation of supplies is worked out so far as possible in cooperation with the other American…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 37 of Progress of the defense program SHIPS FOR THE WORK OF WAR The Globe is Our Battlefield A major objective of our war program is the building of a merchant shipping fleet on an unprecedented scale The war…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 38 of Progress of the defense program- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 39 of Progress of the defense program- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
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Image 40 of Progress of the defense program Up to the beginning of December 1941 contracts had been signed for 999 ships keels for 272 had been laid 154 had been launchedand 123 of these had been delivered and sent…- Contributor: United States. Office of Facts and Figures
- Date: 1941
About this Item
Title
- Progress of the defense program
Names
- United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Created / Published
- Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1942.
Headings
- - World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States
- - United States--Defenses
Notes
- - Issued also without document series note ("Bureau ed.") with title: Report to the nation. The American preparation for war.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- iii, [2], 62 p. : illus. (map) 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- HC106.4 .A255 1942a
Library of Congress Control Number
- 42037730
OCLC Number
- 6543667
Online Format
- online text
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