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Show .MAY CONTRACTS LN EAST AT HIGH PEAK Awards of construction contracts con-tracts in May in the 37 states east of the Rocky mountains hit $952,-418,000, $952,-418,000, an all-time peacetime high and bringing the total for the first five months of 1946 to 53,129,822,-000 53,129,822,-000 in the corresponding 1942 period, per-iod, the P. W. Dodge Corp, reported report-ed today. The May total has been exceeded only once, in June. 1942, when the total reached $1,190,-264,000. $1,190,-264,000. The highest earlier peacetime peace-time volume was $667,097,000 in May, 1928. The total for the first five months of 1928 was $2,794,401, 000. |