"Washington, Sept, 3.
The War Department today intensified American preparations for war through broadening the scope of the Government's industrial mobilization programme which will convert the nation'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 Roosevelt had approved of $2,000,000 in "educational orders" to key manufacturing plants for the manufacture of military materials and equipment. The "educational orders" will enable the 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 hundreds of earlier agreements with manufacturers had lapsed because of 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 of commercial factories into the greatest war supplies production unit in history within a few weeks after the outbreak of war,—United Press.
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