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Experts plan to treat the ravages of rust, fumes...
Automakers also are being helped by renewed customer interest in larger cars, on which they make more money, spurred partly by the weakening in gasoline prices as the OPEC cartel loses its grip. Rust also is Detroit's friend: more and more cars in the U.S. auto fleet are older ones (average age: seven years) and will need to be replaced sooner or later. This year will not be a great one for Detroit. But at last there seems to be cause for believing that good times, if not around the next bend, could be around the one after...
Like mausoleums of a passing age, they stand shuttered and empty. They are the padlocked steel mills of what has come to be known grimly as the American Rust Bowl, and from the rail sidings of East Chicago to the icy waterways of western New York State, they offer mute testimony to the industrial damage that has been done by the longest economic decline in half a century...
...basic metals such as steel and copper. As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across to western New England took on the grim, ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of Rust Bowl. By December, the nation's steelmakers were operating at less than 35% of capacity, the lowest rate since 1938, and at least one concern, the steelmaking division of Lukens, Inc. of Coatesville, Pa., planned virtually to close up for ten days over the Christmas and New Year...
Many of them stand to be disappointed. In general, sales are better on both coasts then they are in the Midwestern middle, the "rust bowl," hardest hit by joblessness and industrial anemia. Almost nowhere, though, are sales truly brisk. Unusually warm weather in the East, which has produced temperatures in the springlike 70s, has hurt them in two ways. It has cut into sales of winter clothing. It also made Christmas seem not so near, reducing what Economist Alan Greenspan calls the "sense of urgency" needed to press people into stores...