Show Business Busnes Today Today Today- I L Builders Face QUId tto Big B Ig J Job 0 k b buring 1942 rd I JAMES 1 and andrt rt y I ULIA PINKERTON PL ha WASHINGTON April 21 Wide t t ii Americas America's Americas America's builders find 1 ewes today in the midst of a t year year biggest biggest Ini In i f history of the construction tbt stry ji war production board order I lifting ting jIng all H unnecessary I o sull leaves the industry with jr greatest prospects ahead of it n i this thi construction is one of the there 10 oi r re l fortunate industries industries industries-aI al- al N gh individual firms are bound uffer from from the stoppage of ho ii ding for ordinary civilian purr pur pur- r Ses ses h What's more the pace of build build- is expected to quicken en The 1 te of construction during the theil of the year will be greater t I t an at present L Vs As s a rough estimate most of the of i I rg rs n 5 i al at building already has been done Ie e rest st of the year will be de- de ted entirely to necessary work Li f which io roughly j jl ill be related to the war effort bus us is would cover in addition to Cl tary installations and war- war plants housing for de de- workers highways and h e pub- pub t utilities to meet defense center i la ds and farm additions ry I to to the drive for increased u od d production Some Sane of essential g i vilian nhan construction makes up the st t of the years year's expected build- build Construction of cantonments air ds naval stations and other facilities will reach near this year year more more morein in Ii i double the volume in 1941 and commercial builds build build- s mostly to expand the nations nation's i k jt- jt tz put of war goods will take takeout out ut as against last year h b Residential construction cut to Ut out two-thirds two of the 1941 level if Ibe concentrated in defense It pal heal areas I. I I Ii dex of this years year's building tit i- i gress is a report that total coni con- con i cUon awards through y rare are 30 per cent greater than we se during the same period of b b fr 1 p S These best ese estimates of the construe construe- to industry's future come from T commerce department experts ti Morris Livingston and Joseph Ehlers Reporting in the curit curIt cur- cur 1 it issue tissue of Domestic Commerce 1 ii It this breakdown of con con- I 1 cUon activity for the current II talf compared with previous years millions of dollars I 1 illions K 1940 1941 Forecast 1942 tel III construction 1085 i 1 Jn I v 1 2323 2675 1700 bU hiding 1191 tal private 1940 1941 1 1940 g other other i 1 I. I 1 bile lie Ic i utility 1 I J I lal public u build 2676 l ug Dr building 1672 2750 I and fotter 1312 2500 other I I Ilary and naval 1768 hu 1013 er public work works I The he lie Ehler estimates especially timely because they into account the stoppage of i building which was dered recently by W P B. B That order limits unauthorized construction to maintenance work on residences not in cost and to farm not exceeding 1000 I r J the particular building or a |