This week, as several hundred thousand automobile workers returned from long Labor Day weekends, motor bigwigs held many hurried last-minute confabs before drawing the curtain on the 1941 model year. Weekly production idled around 30,000 cars last month, is expected to rise towards 115,000 or more by Thanksgiving. Charts called for 1,200,000 cars in the final 1940 quarter, boosting this year's output to a three-year high of 4,200,000, up 13% from 1939's 3,733,000. For 1941, few motormakers expect to equal the 5,016,000 cars produced in 1937. But they bubbled with pre-auto-show enthusiasm.
>The industry's biggest enigma was, as usual, Henry...
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