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Show !t;.s:d': tro,? nv::it:c.ied above--( cm i'-:ii-v:cl ironi ml: ::!"i." Tlr've won't b' no!Sh amomo-h:: amomo-h:: or :::rs ft.- so.i.e tun.'. ! Full employment earTt be ex-' ex-' r..:-cf.d for perhaps another 18 : months, at least. i Tha war production board threw i awjy all but 40 of its 400 controls ! on industry. Auto makers were told to go the limit. Controls will remain on scarce I items like tin, crude rubber, textiles tex-tiles and lumber until they are no longer scarce. And for the rest of 1945 the agency said these very much-in-demand goods would be made in about these quantities in the last quarter: Mechanical refrigerators, 700,-000; 700,-000; washing machines, 500,000; sewing machines, 75,000. These are guesses, of course. Here's Outlook For Future ' The government has hurled a-side a-side many wartime controls but solemnly pointed out that reaching reach-ing a fully prosperous peace at home Will be neither qui k nor easy. Reconversion director John W. Snyder frankly painted a picture of wide unemployment which he hopes . will be only temporary: 5,000,000 or more within three months, perhaps 8,000,000 by next spring. He told President Truman in an 8000-word report on what the country faces that the "outlook for peacetime victory is bright but it will not be won easily nor immediately." immed-iately." The govenrment shot at the peacetime goal from all angles, with the orders ripping away wartime war-time controls following one another an-other in rapid-frre order from the various government agencies. The government through one official or another announced: 1: An immediate end to the rationing of gasoline, fuel oil, stoves, canned fruits', vegetables, catsup, chili sauce, grapejuice. To Discharge Millions 2. The armed services will discharge dis-charge 7,000,000 men and women within a year or 18 months; perhaps per-haps 5,500,000 from the army, V2 million from the navy. Army and navy both disclosed their new discharge dis-charge systems. 3. Price controls were taken off scores of consumer items like jewelry, jew-elry, sports equipment, toys selling at retail for 25c or less, cigarette lighters, pipes, some photographic material. 4. Shoe rationing may disappear before year's end because of a drastic drop in slice requirements by the armed forces. 5. - Large cuts in the army's woolen and cotton needs, thus freeing thousands of yards for the civilian market before Christmas. War Contracts Cancelled 6. About 29 i billion dollars in war contracts and purchases were cancelled: six billion by the army, 23 !; billion by the navy. 7. Lend-lease based on war needs will be needed as ''rapidly as possible" pos-sible" with help given only to those nations aiding in the redeployment redeploy-ment of our troops. 8. Mr. Truman abolished the office of-fice of censorship, the first of the strictly wartime agencies to disappear dis-appear since the war's end. And here was the other side of the picture: Price controls will continue on scarce items, Rent controls will continue. Also the bridle on wages and, for a while, on railroad travel. To Aid Liberated Areas We'll have to continue helping liberv.ted areas for some time with food, textiles, coal, transportation, machinery. Coal for use in this country probably will remain short supply throughout next winter. Because of the "very large" demand de-mand for food at home and a-brco.d. a-brco.d. Snyder says American farmers will be required to keep up "all out production." He added: "Needs very likely will exceed suplies of meats, fats, oils, sugar and some other important impor-tant foods. OPA boss Chester Bowles said "right now it is impossible" to estimate esti-mate when other commodities |