Of current interest: Field offices facilitate war production

Three plans for further mobilization of the nation´s war-production facilities currently are being pushed by the Office of Production Management^∗: (1) industrywide conversion of many durable goods industries from civilian to war production; (2) promotion of “war-production associations” and (3) further subcontracting to individual plants through local offices of the contract distribution division of OPM. Smaller manufacturers that have been deprived of raw materials for their normal production can thus enter into war production through any of these channels. It has been estimated that to turn out the tremendous volume war orders now in prospect will require that all suitable “moderate size” plants in the United States be utilized.