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Show CM OUTPUT HUM IN SPITEOF BREAK War Clouds Fail to Curb Demand for Autos, Says Packard Official. K sidelight on the firm conditions o business generally in the United States roflortcd in thfl report of tha Pack-nrd Pack-nrd rurrtuQ tales board at its March meeting to the Packard Motor Car com-prmv. com-prmv. The hoard is composed of the t-.Hlan manat'.rK of Packard branches and 'tenors' ablishments in nin at the principal eitnja of the country. It an-nounced an-nounced an increase in business from February J 5 to March 15 of 73 per ceut oer the sam period in lOlfi. As purchasers of Packard cars and trucks are conservative, business meu, tli is should be reassuring information. A alejunan in Philadelphia who recently recent-ly took the order of a prominent Philadelphia Phila-delphia banker notified the factory that the banker had talked to him at considerable, con-siderable, length about, his own feelinsj in the matter of purchasing a new car. "I had made up my nund to forego pure h:ifiing a new car this year," Die nanker said, "but I decided to study the condition of affairs in America and I found things in such excellent shape that T bc-ame confident that there could he no serious depression for at least two years, no matter what happened hap-pened w;ir, crop failures or whatever else might come short of downright disaster. dis-aster. ' ' It is a somewhat curious coincidence that a largo percentage of the increased business last week was in two points that were completely snowed in by the heavy storms that visited the northern se'-t ion of the count ry from Ma rch 10 to March 17 Toronto and .Rochester. |