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I UMIU 200 WAR PROGRESS JUL T IS, IH~
Production-As You Like It
Munitions output fell 1%, missed schedule by
3%. Yet most of roost prOQroms-~
erenc:e planes, big guns and ammunition,
heavy trucks, troetors-come through.
THit BASIC facts about munl tiona pr oduction
in June are that total outpu~ h
estimated a~ $5, 420,000.000 I preliminary
I, t hat t his was !I l ess than i n
May, and ~hat 1t missed schedule by 31.
But as usual the facta don • t apeak for
the10aelves. '!1ley can be viewed with
alarm or with aatiefactlon-dependine
on the apokeam&n.
Thus H mlah~ be emphasized that June
produc~ion continued the 1944 record
of erratic ups and do>e~s , conaleten~
only in remaining below ~he level reached
at the end of 1943: thl! inference le
that the rrunltlons progrMI is in ~he
doldrums. Or H llllgh~ be poin~ed ou~
tha~l.hie errauc perfonoance ""alergely
ln accordance wHh plan, since Clrst-oCthe-month
schedules have also sene up
and down, have yet to call Cor a rise
above the 1943 peak: and lags were c:hacacterhtic
or the prorre.m ln i ~s hayday.
I A year aeo June t he rleina proaCMt ""'
~ behind schedule. I
DIYERe EIT VIE WPDI I TS
One llll.&ht dW&ll on the Coet that
major deficits came in proarams of major
lmport.,nce: e.lrcraftt missed the goal
by 41, airborne radar by as. Or one
raleht dwell instead on the fact that
"it hln the e.1 rcraCt program alJIIos t all
the hilh-preCerence models came throu1h
s martly ( WP-Julye • 44, p\'1, and that most
of the must progrlll!ls-big guns, big-sun
JUNE CONTINUES UP-AND- DOWN STANDSTILL
Munitions output bock 1o .b'ur}' level-I% below May, 3% behind schedule. Monthly
production rrust CNer'098 9% CNer .Aine to meet 44 QOOl ErrPoyment corfuJes down .
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