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Show CHILIAN GOODS: 1945 Prospects With the European war having taken an unfavorable turn, and the nation's total resources needed for continued record production of war. materials, there will be little improvement im-provement in stocks of civilian goods through 1945, the War Production Produc-tion board predicted. With the frozen stockpile down to 45,000 units, and resumption of production pro-duction unlikely until after the European Euro-pean war when almost six months will be needed for reconversion, mechanical me-chanical refrigerators will remain practically unavailable. If manufacturers manufac-turers can start on production of 375,000 all-steel ice-boxes, civilians will receive about 56,000 a quarter in 1945. Of 35,000 electric ranges authorized author-ized for 1945, civilians are to get 65 per cent, while about 1,200,000 electric elec-tric irons will be assembled. Some aluminum kitchenware will reach the market but output of cast iron, enamel and galvanized utensils probably will remain down, primarily primari-ly because of manpower shortages. ' Although WPB authorized production produc-tion of 319,492 vacuum cleaners in 1945 a fraction of the peacetime output of 1,903,000 annually actual manufacture may fall short of goal. Because of the increasing scarcity of lumber, the supply for furniture is expected to remain short. Production Produc-tion of innerspring mattresses will be negligible for at least six months. Only for small electrical appliances appli-ances are prospects described as brighter. j |