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calculating machines, etc.; also, industries manufacturing
 
mechanical toys, hardware, etc. These workers, after a
 
very short period of re-learning and apprenticeship, will
 
 have to take up their work in the shops employing skilled
 
workers engaged on contracts for the Navy and Air Force.
 
       These extraordinary and immediately urgent measures
 
 require a further re-grouping in the armaments industries
 
which, up to the present time, have been predominantly
 
engaged in manufacturing for the land forces. The
 
technical possibilities for carrying through a sudden
 
transformation of these factories, the delivery of
 
materials and the employment of skilled workers for the
 
manufacture of equipment for the Air Force and the Navy
 
are limited. Extending or rebuilding armament factories
 
which have been working heretofore solely for the Army
 
have not succeeded in the degree hoped for. For example,
 
it was impossible on that account to carry out at the
 
existing shipbuilding docks and other plants working on
 
naval orders the 1940 program for the building of U-boats,
 
fast boats, transport boats, cruisers, mine layers, etc., 
 
even up to battleships.
 
 
          Likewise, for the Air Force , and for air defense
 
 artillery it was not possible to carry out fully the
 
planned increase for 1941. Especially for this reason
 
                                    the