-13- essential war economy and transportat ion needs and the develolanent of' production and transportation installa- tions, above all things, for military purposes. Then come the needs essential to the life of the civil popula- tion, and then, finally, those additional needs which arise from the war, and, finally, there is that export which is important to the war. An excellent picture of the situation is afforded by glancing at the production statistics in the iron working industry. In that industry at the end of 1940, of 100 tons of steel 65.4 percent were ordered for the immediate use of the defense forces, 20 percent for other important public needs of military importance (railroads, postal requirements, the Four Years' Plan and the G. B. Building Program) and only 15 percent for other industrial and private needs. The other industrial and private needs are composed, for the most part, of maintenance and repair needs which are also of military importance (especially the maintenance of the mining industries, the iron production and metal industries). There must be added to that the important needs of agri- culture, hand-working trades and export which, for the most part, have military importance. According |