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Show AUTO ORDERS 1 TO MEAN JOBS 1 Gearing its machines to a new : I high in production, the automobile ' 1 industry enters 1945 with a back- i log of $11,080,000,000 in orders for I essential war materials, Alvin Ma- ; cauley, president of the Automo- I tive Council for War Production, ' J announces. . This multi-billion sum exceeds 1 the amount of war materiel turn- ; ed out by the industry during the (J last 12 months. Workers in the industry aver- aged $57.70 in weekly earnings : .1 last year. A total of 18,170 vet- ' 5 erans were put 'on war work un- I der the comprehensive program of ; the auto plants for rehabilitation j and re-employment of ex-service ' men, which is part of industry's ! broad plan, recently announced, to ! i enable all Americans to "earn )- , more, buy more, and have more." f E ' . t |