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Show made at the Automotive Gold Jubilee Jub-ilee in Detroit last week. Of course, the American automotive auto-motive industry didn't really "get going" during the first two decades dec-ades of the century. Only 4,192 cars and trucks were produced in 1900, and it wasn't 1915 that total production even approached a million mil-lion cars a year. The problem early ear-ly in the century was perfecting methods of mass production in the assembly lines. The problem now is keeping workers on the' job. The low production the last week of May was largely attributed attrib-uted to material shortages resulting result-ing from strikes in supplier plants. Car Production Ceems Getting Nowhere Fast I CHEER UP, you would be purchasers pur-chasers of automobiles! American automobile production the last $week of May totaled 33,387 unite, both passenger vehicles and trucks. At that rate it would require only a half century to produce as many cars and trucks as have been turned out from 1900, to May 31, 1946. That 46-year production to- 1 tal was 87,203,730 cars and trucks, |