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Show AUTOMOBILE TIRES REACH $290,000,000 Last year, according to a statement Issued Is-sued by the Notional Automobile Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, motor ear users discarded dis-carded 9,000.000 tires, representing an. expenditure of more than $2S0. 000000. What would be the result if half of this sum. approximately $150,000,000, could he saved annually? It would pay for the construction of five concrete highways across the continent each year; it would build another , Panama canal in threo years, pay off the national debt in seven years or build a fleet of ten first-class battleships every year. |