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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1943)
Reciprocal Aid Makes Lend-Lease Two-Edge Sword in Fighting Axis V. S. soldiers here use British made guns and ammunition. They are firing a British 3.7 inch anti aircraft gun in Britain. The American in the armed forces draws upon the store houses of many lands in these days of total war. He eats Aus tralian beef and New Zealand butter, drinks English tea, flies British Spitfire planes and sleeps in barracks built by Egyptians and Indians. All this is possible because of re ciprocal aid, a phase of the Lend-Lease Act upon which a vital part of the cooperative action of United Nations rests. Photo at top shows American soldiers at work in a kitchen fa tigue pantry in Australia, with netcly erected barracks in back ground. Left: Australian sheep produce wool for replacement uniforms for U. S. soldiers, thus saving valuable shipping space. I American soldiers can obtain British and American goods in post exchanges throughout the United Kingdom. All the British-made goods, including some items such as candy, chocolate and note pa per, are given cash-free as reciprocal aid. Such payments as the soldiers make go to the U. S. army finance department. New Zealand butter in the making. Our army has received 2,032, 000 pounds of this staple from New Zealand, under reciprocal lend lease. Most of the food for American armed forces stationed in New Zealand has been received under this arrangement. Pilots of the first V. S. Spitfire squadron in Great Britain run to their planes. This airfield u.as turned over to us by England. Our New Fighting Ships During the 12 months following Pearl Harbor, the United States navy launched 159 fighting ships, or four times as many as the cor responding types sunk by enemy action, says Collier’s. Among these new vessels were three bat tleships, six aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 107 destroyers and 33 sub marines, having a total estimated tonnage of 558,000. 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(Vitamin Bi), Niacin and Iron CORN FLAKES —Otto— •Ml M .!..••• IM*IM MMtl INK •••«••• . •* -wm** ' * j REPORT ON WARTIME OPERATIONS What we received 1942 1941 for products and services sold •••••• $1,865,951,692 $1,622,355,922 What we did with the money Wages, salaries, social security, and pensions • $782,661,701 $628,275,135 Taxes—Federal, state and local. 203,755,157 168,645,848 Products and services bought from others • • 648,401,343 579,640,279 Wear and usage of facilities. 128,161,530 98,590,187 Estimated additional costs caused by war • • 25,000,000 25,000,000 Interest on indebtedness •••••••• 6,153,392 6,033,398 Dividends on cumulative preferred stock . • • 25,219,677 25,219,677 Dividends on common stock ••••••• 34,813,008 34,813,008 Carried forward for future needs ; • • • • 11,785,884 56,138,390 Total $1,865,951,692 $1,622,355,922 Steel pVodllctWH in net tons of ingots ... 30,029,950 28,963,018 FACTS WORTH NOTING: • $783 million for workers in 1942, or 25% more than in 1941. • $204 million to government in taxes in 1942, or 21% more than in 1941. 9 No increase in dividends in 1942. 9 Balance for future needs 78% less than in 1941. 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