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Show ANALYSIS GIVEN ON BUILDING MATERIAL AVAILABLE The following analysis on general gen-eral availability of building materials mat-erials may help plan the type of building you want to construct: Lumber 1948 production will probably not exceed the high levels of 1947; for the first 4 months of 1948, total production was almost 1 per cent below that for the same period of 1947. Retail lumber stocks both for the North Central States and for the U. S. as a whole are substantially higher than in 1946, when the low point was reached, re-ached, but TJ. S. stocks are still 1.5 billion feet short of the December 1941 high point. Aluminum sheets Expected to continue short in relation to demand. de-mand. Galvanized sheet and corrugated roofing and siding 1948 production produc-tion not expected to greatly exceed ex-ceed 1948. Nails Production is at an all-time all-time high, but housing and gener-' al construction requirements are large. Not much increase over present pre-sent rate of production is likely. HOWEVER, reports indicate only 4 out of 14 market areas are short of nails. |