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Guns-and- Butter Economy—
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Complexity of Planes, Weapons Puts Crimp In Speed of Output
Last of a Series
By CHARLES LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov.
21—A stérn “secret” label is
slapped on exact war production figures but—nearly a year and a half after Korea—they show output of many
vital weapons is moving at
There's still mere trickling production of the B-47 jet bomber, the F-8% sabre-jet fighter which’ _ almost, alone
can match the Russian MIG, electronics equipment. the pewest guns. Actual figures cannot be disclosed, but in the third quarter of this year the U. S. §§ was producing tanks at a pace about 15 per cent of that set for a level-off quarter goal next fall. On one important gun, the pace was less than 10 per cent of the 1952 target; electronics devices, 30 per cent. The jet bomber pace was about 10 per cent of the 1953 goal. Tank output was fairly good, but was delayed by turret and gun troubles. Over-all, officials say war production is 80- 85 per cent on schedule now. They observe the U. 8. is doing three things: Building weapons for today. Building huge plant and machine tool capacity for a mighty outpouring of weapons—if necessary—by 1953-54. Building vast new capacity in steel, aluminum and other base materials to feed the greater plant capacity. ‘Big’ War Basis THIS IS SEEN as the essential foundation for a really big war, if it comes. Today, it means not full mobilization but a guns-and-butter economy permitting civilian production at the expense of war output. War output has stepped up, the work week is lengthened—but many munitions plants are closed from Friday night until Monday morning. Inevitably, top production people observe, this country's race to match numerically superior Russian air fleets in Korea is slowed by the almost incredibly more complex planes of today. Aircraft makers say even World War II planes were hardly more than power-driven kites compared with those of
today. U. 8. planes have more refinements than comparable
enemy planes—we can use up the same amount of steel and aluminum as the Russians and come out with fewer aircraft. But a better gun-sighting ‘mechanism in our newest planes, to cite one example, has enabled U. 8. fliers to knock out Communist fighters even when the Reds had superior aircraft.
Complicated Design NOT SO LONG AGO, accent in military plane design was on the airframe, the engine and propeller. They represented three-fourths of the finished flying weapon. Today, they might represent one-half. Now almost infinitely fine and detailed labor is demanded by automatic fire-control systems, tracking systems, radar and air refueling systems.
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and electronics job figured: he needed one technician for each 1000 employees. Today, one out of /24 must be a technician. A patrol bomber today has ahout 600 pounds of instruménts as against 100 pounds early in World War II. Another plane today has 5000 pounds of electronics devices, its World War II prototype had 1000 pounds. The newest planes have got to be at home 50,000 feet in the air; half that was enough a few years ago. They travel at 650 miles an hour instead of 400.
Tougher Problem
TODAY'S PLANES® must be built on an aircraft industry base which in the first post-war years was permitted to decline almost to zero. That's much of the answer to why the country could produce 100,000 planes in a'single World War II year, but i= having real trouble getting even small output in 1951. After Korea, there was scattered but genuine reluctance in United States industry to swing away from profitable civilian output and into war work. The climate was that of “police action” rather than real war thinking. It happened in some auto and some radio-television plants which were wanted for government contracts. When peacetime goods manufacturers did turn to war work they were confronted by an almost crippling shortage of machine tools. The Air Force had stored great quantities of machine tools after World War II. Many of these lathes, presses, drills, stamping machines, etc., could be used, but the revolutionary changes in plane design demanded other tools such as never had been made before, Annual pre-Korea production of a certain drilling tool, for example, was 60—yet a single aircraft contract demanded this many. This instance is unusual, but it indicates the problem.
Transition Period
WHEN THESE vastly complex new airplanes come off the line, they can't be put immediately to work in Korea. Even today's small production has spun out a fair group of new B-47 jet bombers, but there's a lengthy transition period ahead while production bugs are eliminated and pilots trained to handle these planes. By next spring we'll be getting F-84
Thunderjets and F-86 Sabrejets i it will be | 1853 until we begin to get a | needed light bomber, the Can- |
ordered after Korea;
berra, laid down about months ago, The question worrying some top American airmen, watching
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this: Have they yet thrown at us everything they have? If they begin sending really big sorties at us — not just every three of four days but every day-—can we check them? Not only are there urgent demands from Korea, but from Europe. It. was to speed the raising and equipping of 30 North Atlantic Treaty army divisions that Gen. Dwight D. 1 Eisenhower recently flew back here to taik to President Truman and top war planners, Tanks, jet planes, guns the same equipment is asked for Europe and Korea. The U. 8. will have mountains of
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"SIMPLE SIMON PLAN"-—That's what Dean Acheson (left] said Warren Austin described the Russian proposal to outlaw atomic
weapons. Mr. Auctin called the plan sheer nonsense’
Far and Away—
at the United Nations in Paris. Mr. Acheson listened to the above animated rep from Jacob Malik center] and Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet representatives. } Y Y:
Flophouse Loan Might Not Be Bum One
A $200 LOAN for six hoboes to finance a flophouse was considered “sympathetically” today by a New York City bank. Bewhiskered Bozo Clarke, self-styled Duke of the Hoboes, and his pals marched into the Modern Industrial Bank ¥esterday and told Vice President Abner Jackson a model flophouse 3 for. bowery bums could take in $300 monthly and pay off the loan in a year. The six warmed their hands aver the bank radiator and headed back to Third Avenue,
If They Had Their Way
Miss Lewis
Big Adventure Miss Day Eleven Korean war nervous over meeting their moth-ers-in-law, are en route the U. 8. The young wives—three carrying babies—arrived in Tokvo from Korea and will leave hv plane for this country tomorrow
Korea voted today for singers Doris Day and Monica as women thev’d most like to lead them in an attack. The poll followed acthat a in black. trouser-clad, was leading Chinese assault troops in the sector.
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Joined by their husbands. The The singers won five votes each. Army authorized marriages in pv performer Dagmar won two Korea last February, but some
votes, and actress Elizabeth Tay-
GIs jumped the gun and married 1, and Margaret Truman one
earlier, in Korean ceremonies,
each. The poll nearly didn't come . off. A couple of GIs argued a Sings New Tune politician should lead them into
battle,
Motoring Over Amos Walker, escaped convict, called New Orleans police to ask if they'd tow his car to the pound for illegal parking. Officers said they had and to come around and pay $3 and pick it up. When Walker appeared, detectives who had discovered a ‘regular arsenal” in the car, snapped handcuffs on him. “I should have just gone out and stole another car,” Walker moaned.
Mr. Torme
Miss Raye
Crooner Mel Torme sought $3906 damages today from His Vote to ‘lke’ comedienne Martha Raye because A World War I tubercular vetshe is alleged to have behaved eran in Memphis, Tenn.. was zaid
with the same boisterous abandon that brought her stage fame He filed suit against Miss Rave yesterday, charging he rented his home to her and her husband Nick Condos, and they left it battered, burned and
to he the first contributor to the Eisenhow or-President campaign. Richard Bunch, 82, sent £5 to the office Sen. James H. Duff with a penciled letter which zaid he working for an awful gond man.”
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A voung robbery convict was scheduled today to visit the state penitentiary at McAlester, Okla., because a judge thought it might “teach him to go straight.” Jim Kimbrell, 19, first offender who pleaded guilty yesterday to armed robbery, was ordered to see how he'd “like” five years there. That's the sentence he could get.
Suspense
Chicago bomb squad detectives gingerly opend a mysterions little black bag left on a plane by 3 flustered patron. The patron rushed into the airlines office yesterday and said he'd “catch an other plane to Toronto tomorrow” and pick up his luggage on the later flight. Inside the bag were
tow bottles “of Scotch, a brush, camera and shirts.
Cruelty Costly
James Spratley of Smithfield, Va. was fined $100 yesterday after SPCA agents in Philadelphia said 18 horses he was transporting in a truck were treated cruelly. Three horses died and four others had to be killed because they were not loaded properly, agents said.
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Sabba Verdiglione of Camden, N. J. court interpretdr for 24 vears, decided to retire when his yearly salary was cut from $1035 to £500. Retirement pay will be 2517 a year.
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Blond Divorcee, 39, Advertises for Mate
By United Press |her ex-husband for support of TRAVERSE CITY, Mich, Nov.! jamie. 21 —A 39-year-old blond divorcee, “My tastes are simple,” she who described herself as “the out-(said. Besides being kind and -indoor type” advertised today for aldustrious, however, prospective college-educated husband to take mates must be Protestant, college care of her and her youngest son.| education preferred, with age “not Mrs. Margaret Ealy sald she/too important.” was inspired to appeal through! Mrs. Ealy married when she the press for a mate after the suc-| was 15 years old. She was di cess of another Michigan ‘woman {vorced from her plumber husband who advertised for a husband 15/last May. months ago and finally picked one -
3 More Indiana Gls Wounded
Three more Indiana soldiers {have been wounded in Korea, the t| Army announced today. A fourth has been hurt in an accident,
“All 1 want is a husband who will be a good father to Jamie and help us,” Mrs, Ealy said in the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Jamie is her 5-year-old son. Her oldest son is married and a fa-| ther. Her other son is a studen at Michigan State College. Neither!
Wounded: Sould De Yeached immediately for Cpl. James L. Smith, son: of comment. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur M. Smith, Interested in Future Muncie.
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