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...troop movements and furloughs, the Army now uses half the Pullmans in the country (total 8,753) and one-third of the coaches (total 39,244). To handle the load at its peak, some Office of Defense Transportation officials thought 4,000 to 5,000 more passenger cars would have to be taken from civilians...
...first quarter after V-E day (to Aug. 8), an estimated 280,000 men will come back from Europe each month (to speed westward, go to various camps, scurry home on furloughs). In the second quarter (to Nov. 8) the figure will run around 395,000, possibly reaching a peak of 500,000, then tapering...
...last eight months of 1945, munitions production will run at an annual rate of $54 billion-more than 90% of the peak rate of 1944 and almost the rate...
...Much. On May 1 U.S. warehouses bulged with 11,000,000 bales of cotton (an increase of 705,000 bales in a year), equal to about two years' supply of cotton. Meanwhile cotton consumption by U.S. mills continued to slide from its peak. (The mills used 769,678 bales during April v. 857,693 bales a year ago.) Yet by the peculiar nonsense called parity, prices for raw cotton climbed to 23? a pound-a new high for the last 15 years...
...Peak. U.S. manufacturers set a new record when they delivered $14.2 billion of products during March-up 5% from March a year ago. Largest gains were in shipments -of foodstuffs, chemicals and petroleum...