Preparations Washington, Sept, 3, The War Department today inten: fed American preparations for war through broadening the scope of the Government's industrial mobilization programme which will convert the bation's thousands of factories into war supplies manufacturers on "M-Day"—the day America goes to war.
Simultaneously, the Assistant Secretary of War, Mr, Louis Johnson, announced that President Roose-yell had approved of $2,000,000 in "educational orders" to Key mant-facturing plants for the manufacture military materials and equipment, The "educational orders" will enable ithe plants to provide equipment models and materials not regularly manufactured on a commercial scale, The industrial mobilization programme is not new to the United States, having been mapped out following the Great War. Last year, however, a complete investigation of the programme revealed that hun~ dreds of earlier agreements with manufacturers had lapsed because fof deaths or change of ownership, /Since then the War Department has pushed forward with the programme which now has been completely renovated, The mobilization, programme would convert America's hundreds Jeommercial factories into the great lest war supplies production unit in history within a few weeks after the outbreak of war—United Press,
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