Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1942 — Page 11

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retirning horhe from a mission, ask no higher praise than the flutter of bunting from the flagship that in Navy code spells

ry HE crews of an American task force, l

complished since Pearl Harbor - taking all together and lumping the good news

ght to a

“Well done” before the whole orld.

out: “Vell done.” i 0 back now on what America has. 1 V r Vv r -

his nation has Hood up manfully to surtise blows calculated to beat it into subi1ssion,

has foudht the heatioroaking struggle

| through Wake Island, Manila, Bataan, Corregidor, taken "its

grievous losses in men and ships and equipment and with every

setback gained new will to

ficht on.

It has drawn millions of its finest: men from their homes and jobs and is now magnificently equipping them, not with makeshift

‘weapons, but with fighting tools

that steadily have been improved even while the process of getting them into production went on.

It has converted practically the whole, stupendous manufactur-

ing system which has provided |

the conveniences and.comforts it 80 abundantly knewin peacetime.

Amerie a has truly made Victory fs busin :ss—and we, as a nation, ¢ an now cast up accounts and see 4 \merican ‘planes and tanks Lk

ith the bad — the country as a whole has

taking toll of the enemy on every frontcount American battle craft plying the

seven seas —view in the newsreels American

boys striding every kind of road from South Seas jungle path to Icelandic rock.

The war is not yet won —we cannot even

surely say that the beginning of the end is

in sight.

But we have begun to move. We have halted the backward movement, started the march in the right direction.

And we have done this not as individuals:

or separate "organizations, or classes or

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NOTE: Figures roel iil Geseral Motors employment in the United States and Canada. Those for January, 1942 include men and women engaged in pescetime productionduring the period of conversion to all-out wer effort.

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groups or blocs, but as Americans all

working together even through moments of minor and private differences.

(General Motors i is proud to. have had a part in that joint effort.

It is glad that it has been able, through its

broad engineering and ‘production experi-: :

ence, to undertake a variety of tasks almost 13 as broad as the manifold needs of our fight-- =

ing men.

And because General Motors] is so fepre- =

sentative of American industry converted =

‘to war—-because GM production represents

not only its own work but the good work

also of thousands of suppliers and subcon- .= = tractors =its record is typical of: 3 *

that of other Sompanies dedica-- -

ted to Victory.

This record is shown most sim- 3

ply. in these two. diagrams.

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The other. shows the stoadily a growing army of men and wo- : men who have been trained, || = equipped and put to work at the il tasks that spell ultimate victory. ho

One shows how the volume of * deliveries of war materials has

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We on ithe hoe front have no : 3 lesser message to flash to those = A who fight for us than the simple 8

: ‘and eloquent “Well done.”

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Let us here ard now resolve to = leave nothing undone, that the message they flash back to us

‘may be the same. |