Outline of the Future

This week the U.S. as a whole looked a flock of wartime sacrifice squarely in the face. Now the days are numbered until:

> 29,500,000 car owners—and their wives, their mothers and their progeny—no longer can use their cars for anything but the most necessary driving.

> Nearly 10,000,000 farmers and their families stay home or walk the long miles to town for the Saturday night jamboree.

> 12,500,000 townsmen who live in 2,300 communities without trolley cars or busses travel afoot on nearly all occasions.

> The $3,000,000,000 a year roadside-stand-tourist-camp business,...

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