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Show EconomicJIighSighls Fw mdusj encer a new year "u a.wt.uv.i-u oy us muui c-ty oi any si we u. a'.s j.us orf, ncaa to '""" -"a oi nurnid tiaie br-iuuu'.ujy euci-d -ivio-ui uu raiituc-, nao rexvetl a ujxv.ft evn me than ujual " to tw uie opw- u ol tvwi-y uusnis puoacduon -iia cunuiBJta-itor ihat toe n.uio-"wouuj n.uio-"wouuj u leaui-f Ant.rif. oack fc -cjo.cy. oum jiaubtrioi aro like, gouig ah.ua sux.h as the juuc, waicli recently reached a utw au-timd hgu in output buo "ot p10iii, i. But the automo-uue automo-uue is m a class by Itself tconom:. tujy .ipjangno otn-r inauary awuy pi-jviuta so rich ana large HiidiTKtc ior raw and finijued uuta-jai of a thousand and one unos. Rewult or that fact is obvious: ob-vious: If the auLVuictoije iJaustry aos Wttu, a ifcgiuu of other indus-tri.is indus-tri.is :hare in the improvement, jJI tile way from the mill whicn provldi-s the materials for up-iiolatery up-iiolatery to the repair shop which srvioeu your car. Giuaue-st automobia year was 1929, when 5,621,715 oars oaane off the assembly lines. Depression brought an arnazJig drop, culminating culmin-ating In the 1932 low or 1,431,000 cars produced, when almo t eivery maker wan in serious difficulties, and si-veral were rorced through intricate financial rearganizauoas in order to avoid bankruptcy, wruetcen-thirty-three saw produc-uon produc-uon approach the 2,000,000 martc, and in 1934, 2,869,000 cars w-re made. This y-ar estimuijed pro-auutun pro-auutun is 3,735,000. That is etill a Jwng way irum the 1929 peak-out peak-out ja otner ways, the industry is wry close to the boom level The industry, far example, is pioviding almot as many jobs no U dud iu 1929. Its wage levi-1, both on an hourly hour-ly and weekly basis, is higher. Its profits are twice as large as. a jt-ar ago, and are coming within hoting distance of the prosp-r-ous-day experience. It provides the largest single r&ark-t for steel, rubber, plate glass, nxkel, mohair and leather. It Is the source, directly anc indirectly, of 5,000,000 jobw one-dghth one-dghth of all the gainfully employed em-ployed in tho nation, according to ne U. S. News. lit b a prime example ctf effic-Jency effic-Jency in production and distribu-v.-n emci.Txy that was forced on it by depr.tsion. It cos.s a lot leas to m-ke and sell a good car .iow than .t did In 1929, and a ai-ge part of that caving naturally aves to the buyer. From the standpoint of the motorist, the new automobiles, ..wo-rding to th experts, are bet-; a, on a doilar ror dollar basis, chan anything he was able to gei. ifciforJ. Cars are laa-gr, fa. tier, more luxurious, more powerful, oafety features abound. More and mur- gadgets, some useful, some of dubious value, put in an appearance. ap-pearance. The. trend toward ,tr lamlinlng conttnuen, and one mi'iker has come out with the so-called so-called "car of thj future" a teai-drop teai-drop affair, w.th the twigine iu the rear and with jnovablj chairs ncidb the body instead of fixed seats. OtheT makers have gone uanhk than th y ever did to the neuft to make their cars fleet and vanced, and to Increase their econhmy and efficiency. Hit resting fact is the narrowing of the spread bewe-n price of o.rs in the law and high-cost ai-acs, excluding the cars of the $5,000-$15,000 clai There, has ton very 1-ttle change In toe price of cars ini the lowest-price clota Medium-priced cars have been made a 1 Ul cheaper. And in the higher-prioed group there have ow a number of drastic cuts That naturally rnnk-es ccm-cetltion ccm-cetltion stiU more ten-e than In 3 past- As Mr. Public goes Awn automobile row, he Is i going to have a hard time making a market is still domimted bv Ford and General Motors which produce by far the greater pW cent of all ears made, tode-a tode-a mts, such as Chrysler, Pack-STNash, Pack-STNash, Auburn, Hudson, must rrate in the small per cent re-BomV. re-BomV. think that the SSneaatc future will witness to-TOBd3 to-TOBd3 by independents on the "Big Two's" cornier. no the American PPj? l thV much-talked-about tu-cU tu-cU amendmerrt which wod hlmt the Supreme Courts power to d-cla?c. acts of Congress un- accord to the i"0 restitute, which breaks down9- to its poUinto na-fnnal na-fnnal dirt ions, round that 31 pcr-Tout pcr-Tout or eoch 100 favored tiie Srndment. -iree were Snst it. Sixteen had no opin- lw England was strongfrt 'JSna- the am-rdmentl per cent vlng No. 35 per cent x. Tnd 24 per cont hcldar no opto-ion. |