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Show AUTOMOBILE SALES STORY March Sales up 46 percent over February Sales which is encouraging en-couraging to the Automobile industry. However, the total decrease of the 1938 automobile passenger passen-ger car sales for the first three months of this year are off 48.3 percent according to the Automobile Trade Journal, May issue, 1938. Chevrolet is leading the industry during this period with 106,370 new passenger car deliveries. Ford is second with 96,709 deliveries. Plymouth is third with 54,032 deliveries. Chevrolet's percentage of decrease de-crease in business this period over the same period of last year is only 33.2 percent while Ford shows 53.8 percent decrease de-crease and Plymouth 58.6 percent per-cent decrease over the same period of last year. One of the most astonishing sales stories this year is that Buick with its famous valve-in-head engine has stepped into fourth place, running only 2,- 1 677 sales behind Plymouth. Dodge has slipped to 5th -place with. 24,226 sales with a decrease de-crease in sates of 65.2 percent over the same period of last year, one of the largest decreases de-creases in the industry. Pontiac is in 7th place with 22,501 sales; Oldsmobile is 8th place with 21,149; Chrysler is in 9th place with 11,769 sales; Packard in 10th place with 11,286; Hudson in 11th place with 9,673; DeSo-to DeSo-to is in 12th place with 8,226; Studebaker is in 13th place with 8,098; Nash is in 14th place with 7,402; Lincoln is in 15th place with 4,551; WUys is in 16 place with 3,599; LaSalle is in 17th place with 3,606; Cadillac is in 18 place with 2,-616; 2,-616; Graham ' is in 19th place with 1,360; Hupmobile is to 20th place with 243 ; Pierce Arrow is in 21st place with 7; all other makes 393. A total number of sales for the entire passenger car industry is 432,683 sales in the first three months of this year. Chrysler Corporation, is showing a 587 percent decrease in sales over this same period of last year; Ford "and Lincoln is showing a 52.8 percent decrease de-crease while General Motors only shows a 34 percent decrease de-crease over the same period of last year. Adv. i I, |