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Show 'Record Outlay Is 4 Planned For Post-War American manufacturers and businessmen are planning to spend a record-breaking $4,500,000,000 for plants, equipment and alterations altera-tions during the year. This estimate is made by the Commerce Dept. after a survey in which nearly 7,000 companies outlined plans. Such a volume of private capital capi-tal expenditure would be nearly i three times the prewar-7"" -1937 to mid vide millions of jobs d Nearly 30 percent' of then, ned expenditures is for new f Largest gains over prewar U are in the paper and p,, tile, apparel and leather gC, " |