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Show AUTOMOBILE SALES. With aien ncents in everx- town ;a The country, the automobile industry, as rcpresentod by it? sellin? machinery, reports that l'.C-'-O. of our people 'can sfford" to buy cars. Oce ha.f of these, approximately, cannot be expected ex-pected to buy machines os:iu iuore than Three niillior.s are " pros pect?1' for cars costinc from 67.0 to flit 3. Another C.r,J,"'.'.". 0 can spend H4i'0 or fifii"j for C2rs. Somethiri like 150, rCO are in a position where they can diprecard the price altogether. Thi automobile census is eaid to be quite accurate, since it has Veen j compiled from reports gathered from every city, town, hamiet and farming coG.muni'y in th.e land. I'pon it is based the n.anuf acturara ' estimate of the number of cars which would find I a ready sale within the next twelve months. At this t:me there is a shortage of more than .OOO.OoO cars. That is, there is a demand fof that number which cannot be supplied from the stocks now. available. While this lack of supply, naturaliy, is greatest in regard to the lower-priced eara, there is a reported shortage in the more expensive ex-pensive machines as well. With .,''" 0,00'0 Americans financially financial-ly aide and willing to buy automobiles, automo-biles, the outloolt for an unparall"led vear in the Butomobile business is bright. |