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Show HUGE NUMBER OF CARS SOLD Nearly 2,000,000 Produced and Sold in 1922 Figures Fig-ures Show Latest automotive statistics Indicate Indi-cate a 1922 production and salens in the United States of over 1.R00.OO0 cars. This is in excess of even the most optimistic estlmote made earlier In the year. In spite Of the scrapping Of 1, 100,000 cars during tho year, there will be a elenr gain to the Industry In-dustry of over 600.000 cars. On this hoMs, replacement markets alone for the next flvo years will require more nutomoblles than were built during the paflt five years. In the manufacture, pales and service serv-ice branches of the industry, and al-i most equally divided between them, are thrce-quartei s of a million work-i ers. Another million or moro are employed em-ployed In allied industries directly dependent. J The automotive Industry today ls the largest among America's manufacturers manu-facturers It is bigger than oil, meat, lumber and iron and steel. Onlyi agricultural exceeds It. One out of seven wage earners get their llvell-j hood from It. The 1922 business will reach the astounding total of two) and three-quarters billions of dollars, 'if this tota, according to Miller; rubber statistician, tlre.s represent approximately $700,000,000. In passenger miles for the year the automobile should have two against tho railroad's one. Ita seating capacity ca-pacity ls twenty to one of tho rail-; road coach. One in every three bales of cotton go into automobile tlrex. Four out of every flvo pounds of cotton nn used for thorn Eljrhty per rent of the five and one-half billion gallons of gas produced for the ear will Le required to run the elcren million cars registered today. |