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Show AUTO SUPPLIES I I BIG QUEST! "Usually the Pacific coast distributers distribu-ters can build up a strategic reserve Of automobiles during the winter months." say Fat on McMillan of the Jou H. Rose Company. "This year. n,owepr. there was no chance to cot a I supply of cars ahead. First of all the ; I factories wen returning from a war to! B peace basis and there were few au-! tomobiles built during the months of . L November. Iucember and January. H Then in the second place, Ihe east hid a very mild winter and the dealers: and distributers bought all the carsf they could get their hands on. In addition, ad-dition, the public bought cars in winter, win-ter, which is unusual in the eastern half of this country In normal years M the east drops behind the west 111 sales during the winter, and the fac- i tories ship cars out here. "This year the whole country has I demanded automobiles at an unprec?-, dented rate and the factories, already working under the handicap of paitlal peaci organization, were forced to ex- mo,, r , ffori in build more cars. "Orders are coming in from all parti I of northern California. Our wholesale 1 men are selling ''halmers in carload I H lots to the dealers and then they can-1 f not get enough to go around. Here In San Francisco we have fewer cars on hand than ever had before In the history of the Rcue organization. "With millions of dollars to be spenl on roads throughout the nation, other millions on new Industrial and nation-1 Si plants and betterments, the outlook is brighter than it has been in seV-i seV-i eral decades. "The business of the country in gen-' gen-' eral is good. The automobile trade .s always an index of trade conditions because when motor car dealer and distributers are selling automobiles j the entire business fabric of the na- tion must be all wool and a yard w ide i No man buys a motor car nowadays I when he cannot afford it. The fact that hundreds of thousands of cars are being sold shows that the whole country is prosperous" |