Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1946-03-29 | Page 4 | 17 to 3 Ratio

17 To 3 Ratio You can understand the situation situa-tion that confronts the automo- bile industry when you hear that governmental agencies estimate that the demand for new cars . is around 17,000,000 units and that production for 1946 is expected ex-pected to be around 3,000,000 cars. Obviously, if six people try to buy every new car there will be a tremendous pressure on prices which are now fixed by O.P.A. There Is no telling where they would go if all regulations were abandoned and the auto-makers . were allowed to sell the cars for what the market offers. I