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Show National Jews Summary Business Plans -American business, during the first quarter of 1948. plans .to spend about $4,100,000,000 for new plant construction and new equipment, according to a . survey sur-vey recently made public by the Securities and Exchange Commission Com-mission and the Department of Commerce. This is about$l.-000,000,000 about$l.-000,000,000 more than actual expenditures ex-penditures for the first quarter of 1947, although somewhat below be-low the $4,400,000,000 figure established es-tablished in the last quarter of 1947. Retail Sales The nation's retail store sales last year set a new record at $118,000,000,000, or S18.000.000,-000 S18.000.000,-000 more than in 1946, according to a report of the Commerce Department. De-partment. Steeper price tags accounts ac-counts for most of the increase. Fuel Shortage In order to save fuel in the present critical shortage emergency, emer-gency, President Truman has ordered temperatures in Government Govern-ment office buildings and other establishments, including residences, resi-dences, held down, to 68 degrees and placed a 40-mile speed limit on Government vehicles in order to save gasoline. He hopes compliance com-pliance will serve as an example to private citizens to cut down their home . and office temperatures tempera-tures and to save gasoline until the present emergency has been passed. ' Atomic Energy President Truman has issued an executive order forbidding "any aircraft" to fly over the three major atomic energy in-stallations in-stallations "except in. the interest inter-est of national - defense or by authority of . the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission." The ban, invoked as. a national defense measure, applies to the' area over the Trenton-Engineering Works, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Hanford Engineer En-gineer Works, Richmond, Wash., and Los Alamos Project, Santa Fe, New Mexico. |