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Show TEN MILLION CARS IN UNITED STATES P.-is.ornser car registration in the United States has doubled in the last ten yenr-i Today ten million cars are reRlstr-red, which is flve-Slxthfl of all thi'w orld's automobiles. But faster fast-er still has been the Increase In commercial com-mercial car registration The record Is a more than 700 per cent increase In this period. Ten years ago there wero fi4 000 motor trucks. Today thro are over million. Then there was one commercial com-mercial car to 76 pa.ssenger cars, but now there Is one truck to eight passenger pas-senger cars. Sixty pr cent of today's trucks are one-ton sizes or less, and 21. per cent are from one and one-half to two-ton capacity. Miller tire men estimate that th" annual tire bill for commercial cars In the T'nlted States approximates $17f,-000.000. $17f,-000.000. This Is on a basis of a 6.-000.000 6.-000.000 tire requirement yearly for COltamsrelal cars Sixty per cent of these tires arc pneumatics. nn |