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50 percent of its resources to military purposes and
foreign assistance, or five to six times as much as at
present.
The same point can be brought out by statistics on
the use of important products. The Soviet Union is using
14 percent of its ingot steel, 47 percent of its primary
aluminum, and 18.5 percent of its crude oil for military
purposes, while the corresponding percentages for the
United States are 1.7, 8.6, and 5.6. Despite the tremen
dously larger production of these goods in the United
States than the Soviet Union, the latter is actually
works
using, for military purposes, nearly twice as much steel
for
what?
as the United States and 8 to 26 percent more aluminum,
but lessoil.
maybe
obsolate
Perhaps the most impressive indication of the
?
economic superiority of the free world over the Soviet
world which can be made on the basis of available data
is provided in the following comparisons (based mainly
on the Economic Survey of Europe, 1948) :
Comparative
: SERVICE RECORDS AND
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