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The War Production Board took a deep plunge last week, and came up with the answer to the biggest immediate question about reconversion - how many automobiles, and how soon? The answer: 200,000 new cars this year, 400,000 cars in the first quarter of 1946.
This guess - and WPB did not claim that its figures were more than a carefully calculated guess - based the number of cars on the amount of steel scheduled for release to civilian industries after midsummer. Out of 2½ million tons of steel that will be available from military cutbacks...
Who Will Be First? The small number of cars in sight for 1945 dulled the competitive urge among automen to be first. The market was so much bigger than expected production that the exact date of production would not affect the prospect of sales. But some manufacturers were better prepared...
The Freights. The mountains of westbound scheduled freight for war theaters are a bigger problem than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will...
But now he is up against three problems that are beyond his control: 1) when war traffic is heaviest on his western railroads they will also be swamped with orders for tens of thousands of cars to move what seems likely to be the greatest wheat harvest on record; 2...