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Show .Magazine Sees 4 Steel Shortage Present indications are that the problem of procuring steel will become more acute in the early future, Steel magazine said Friday. Fri-day. "Already voluntary allocations under Public Law 395 call for 5 420,784 tons of steel annually," the magazine said. "This is earmarked ear-marked for freight cars, atomic energy projects, warm air furnaces, fur-naces, prefabricated housing, armed arm-ed services, oil field tank and equipment, barges and equipment for hard coal mines." "Still in the discussion stage $the article continued "aro tions for shipbuilding nii tanks, truck-trailers8' agric, HEge machinery and equipmentnltural coal mines. In addition U V Soft tonnage E C A will rll? the Marshall plan. Also t??St for able that the present conU?rob-of conU?rob-of 105,273 tons monthly armed services will hP ; the sharply." Be increased The magazine concluded that , amount of steel involved in th actual and pending allocate cannot be subtracted from tf nation's output without affecting consumers who rtUSl-v the supplies from the open |