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Show Dodge Corp. Survey Shows A Billion Dollar Backlog Ready for Home Building A huge volume of funds is ready for investment in construction, according ac-cording to the F. W. Dodge corporation, corpora-tion, specialists in building statistics. In a recent announcement, Thomas Holden, president, stated that $7,-753,138,000 $7,-753,138,000 has definitely been allocated allo-cated to construction projects in the 37 states east of the Rocky mountains. moun-tains. Of this huge sum, $1,107,448,-000 $1,107,448,-000 has been set aside for residential residen-tial building. Mr. Holden commented that "events since V-J Day have shown that postwar construction revival is likely to move considerably faster than was anticipated some months ago. The removal of controls has eliminated one of our anticipated revival bottlenecks.'.' |