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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