Farm equipment manufactures were allowed to stay at 80% of pre war production of farm equipment.
Both Ford and Massey tried to capitalize on the war effort as far as equipment was concerned because of the products they made, the N and the Massey combine.
There really wasn't a shortage of much except rubber. Even gas and oil were plentiful. But buy rationing gas they could force the savings of rubber which was in demand. The one thing we had to import was rubber and that was a 2 month sea voyage to get it here and supply was limited because much of where rubber was grown was under Japanese control. Manufacturing was also in demand for products like trucks, tanks and artillery. That's why they stopped the production of cars for the most part. They needed those specialized assembly lines for war materials. The scrap metal drives were aimed at making the civilian population feel like they were doing their part for the war effort.
US manufacturing never exceeded 50% toward the war effort. Germany, Japan, Russia and England were at 100% for the war effort.
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