Show the world of tomorrow action in the air in construction and in industry A 3 mzx Z 4 T all S 4 g azzia 4 N draw plans to lik lick depression after war Is won predict demand for goods will keep nation busy for many yea years rs provides broad uses for many farm crops need for building will be great expansion in aviation transportation Is foreseen by A F JEDLICKA while the war rages and war production takes up the interest of the country there seem to be time for anything else but as unsuspected as it might be there is a great amount of study being made about solutions to the vast problems that will arise after the peace has been won millions of soldiers and sailors will be returning from the far flung fronts munitions and armament no longer will be needed in mass quantities and millions of workers will have to be switched back to normal industry and pending the final disposition of lend lease and full development of our own domestic market the huge production program of the farmer will have its complications with all these things bound to come up it is obvious that any studies leading toward the formulation of plans to solve these problems will be of service in averting any hardships and confusion that might grow from them memories of the economic disorganization that followed the last war both in the cities and on the farms still are live enough to spur the as the department of agriculture the U S chamber of commerce and the national foreign trade council All told more than important government and private agencies are engaged in postwar post war economic studies this number does not include many state and local groups u new discoveries and methods method sd developed from war production the tremendous demand for all kinds of consumers goods upon which manufacture has been stopped and the new crops and many uses for old staples that have been found all of these things are on the asset side for a promising postwar post war prosperity surely we will suffer er from no lack of labor in fact profitable employment of all of our labor will be the big problem from present indications we will be the most fortunate of all of the nations of the world since most of our factories and equipment will emerge unscathed from the war no matter what kind of a monetary system we adopt our credit facilities should be limited by a need for money and not by any scarcity of it As the president of the united states state chamber of commerce so optimistically declared we are facing new horizons in which the guar antee of economic as well cal freedom will open vast productive fields should aid farmer of all the farmer stands to profit the most after the war as a result of the advancement of science is the new miracle which has taken the old crops apart to discover their essential substance and then applied the specific properties to the manufacture of many items hasteen has been been active in developing ve plastics according to a survey a composite 1942 automobile has more than plastic p parts arts and airplanes have anywhere from scores to hundreds of plastic applications cat ions 14 plastics on the automobile include upholstery buttons steering wheels 1 accelerator pedals and inter layers of laminated safety glass plastics in the airplane range from grease and oil resistant tubing to handles knobs sight gauges lenses and radio antennae besides chemurgic uses which have been found for the old crops the scientist has gone into the fields to find useful properties in such former waste growth as cattails coattails cat tails milkweed and dandelions these amazing discoveries have opened possibilities bili ties for putting formerly I 1 lands to good work the loss of many of our former sources of supply for medicinal crops vegetable oils and fibers has baa stimulated their cultivation in this country where indeed they grew successfully many years ago before being produced in asia at much less cost continuation of the growth here of belladonna castor beans and hemp for instance is a question which eventually will fall completely within the political realm expect building boom next to agriculture building holds the greatest immediate promise in fact much of our postwar post war planning seems to be revolving around the construction industry As a part of it the timber trade figures prominently on new mass production processes for fabricating sections of buildings and shipping them to a site for assembly it has been estimated that the united states needs new buildings every year for new families and the rest to replace old structures considering the fact that practically all residential building has been stopped by the war the construction st tr action industry will be faced with a gigantic job of meeting the accumulated demands when peace comes because of circumstances arising from the war the timber industry has received an important push that will stand it in good stead later since most shipyards arms and munitions factories demanded all 0 of f the steel that was being produced it was necessary to revert to the use of wood in constructing many new factories etc because the wood had to meet specifications in strength and safety lumbermen developed processes for treating the timber against loads load S decay and fire As a result wood is expected to be used in increasing quantities in ordinary building besides the tremendous demand expected for private construction after the war it is reported that the government has been studying pla plans n s for an extensive public works building program such a program as old as caesar would take up any slack in employment particularly in the passage from a war to a peace economy in connection with the anticipated post war building activity the american institute of architects the american planning and civic association and the conference committee on urban problems have been particularly concerned with the reconstruction ot of many ol of the rundown districts of the big cities within recent becent years many private corporations have been seeking charters from legislatures for rights to revive many slum areas with huge housing projects may expand air travel of course the tremendous expansion of aviation because ol of the war has led to the popular belief that the impetus it is receiving now will carry it into the postwar post war period as the biggest industrial development if we are to consider the opinion of many aviation executives themselves the airplane win will pay a prominent but hardly a predominating role after the war costs of shipping freight by both train and boat still will remain much cheaper than air rates and as a result the plane may be used on an increasing scale but for special purposes it should carry most of the mail it is in the field of transportation that the airplane promises to enjoy its greatest expansion already t there h ere has been substantial talk about the creation of branch lines to hook up with main trunks thus establishing direct connections with all points larger more comfortable and faster planes should come out of the busy research laboratories now concentrating on production of the best bombing transport and cargo airships in the world automobile executives already have warned the people not to expect drastic revisions in models after the war cars of the immediate future will not be much different than those that were being manufactured at the time all of the plants shifted over completely to war production the reason styles will not change much automobile executives say is because factories are stocked with tools for production along recent lines with money in their pockets people will raise a clamor for many items whose manufacture has been discontinued because of the war wash machines vacuum cleaners refrigerators stokers smokers and oil burners buggies etc all will be in demand and if sufficient purchasing power is available the problem will be one of production new products among the more colorful products predicted for the future are gasoline for automobiles yielding 40 miles to the gallon and nylon cord tires of unparalleled strength eye drop dropper per quantities of lead tetraethyl tetra ethyl added to a gallon of gasoline will convert it into high octane fuel necessary for airplanes it is this new and more pow powerful erful fuel which heralds performances of miles an hour for civilian transport planes and promises 40 miles per gallon for automobiles after the war due in large part to chemical products developed for use in processing and vulcanizing vulcan izing rubber tires of the future are expected to possess longer life cords of rayon and nylon along with special carbon blacks for increasing toughness and anti oxidants for retarding the de teri oration of rubber are among the new developments |