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Show quent inability to drive away, is a foregone fore-gone conclusion. Vice President Lafayette Markle of the Republic Truck company states their schedule of production at present is eighty trucks per day, or an approximate approxi-mate output of 2000 trucks per month. This schedule, he has reason to believe, will be materially boosted in a few months. REPUBLIC TRUCK DOUBLES OUTFIT In these days of foolish, down-in-the-niouth pessimism in some quarters, the story of Republic truck development comes ay a refreshing piece of news. Not only do their records show "business as usual," but sales and deliveries twice as good as usual. Durinj the nine months ending' April 1. 191S. there were 11,400 Republic trucks built and delivered, as against 5900 trucks during tho s;une period of 1I17. The cash receipts for the nine months ending April 1. 191. were $12,000,000, as against about J6.000.00O in the same period of the preceding pre-ceding year. One of tho most encouraging features of this unprecedented increase is the fact that this is regular business and does not include' so-called war orders. That these fijnires would have been far surpassed sur-passed except for the known shortage of raw material and shipping facilities, not to mention bad. roads and cone- |