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       According to these statistics which are very much 
 
elucidated by a study of the individual items, the entire 
 
iron requirements, even to the smallest orders, are very 
 
urgent and are more or less important in the war effort. 
 
By a further shifting of production during 1941 in favor 
 
of the manufacture of arms and amnunition, decisions
 
must be made in the various sectors of production accord-
 
ing to urgency and military importance, which decisions 
 
must be carried out by postponing or rejecting the needs
 
of those sectors where the least damage to the war effort 
 
and the general economic situation (degrees of urgency) 
 
will occur. As reports from the rest of the industrial
 
groups show, this status of development has already
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arisen in a large part of industry; and, indeed, not the
 
least in this group--the consumption goods industry
 
(textiles, clothing, and food products).
 
        In the building and in the consumption goods 
 
industry the employment of male workers in the manu-
 
facture of goods for the defense forces has made great 
 
progress, especially noticeable in the high percentage 
 
of employment on behalf of the defense forces in the 
 
buildings and clothing industry, as well as in the saw 
 
 
mills and woodworking industries. The greater activity
 
also in these industries for defense purposes becomes so
 
                                                      much