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Show Odd Facts For Intercity haulage, terminal transfer and store-door deliveries, deliver-ies, the railroads use approximately approxi-mately 63,800 motor trucks. Retail prices for closed cars at the present time coat from one-third one-third to one-half what they old 20 years ago. - A set of five tires on the typl-. cal automobile contains approximately approx-imately M pounds of virgin rubber. rub-ber. During 1838, there were approximately ap-proximately 713,000 people directly di-rectly employed In the production of automobiles, parts. Urea, etc, and another 1.165,000 In sellings and servicing them. , More than 20 billion barrels of oil have been produced from United States wells since 1857. The average motor vehicle Is estimated to have consumed 731 gallons of gasoline In 1939, aa compared with 704 gallons in 1938, due to Increased highway travel. |