AUTOS: Nine Months or Two

Detroit's automakers last week sat down on one side of a long table in Detroit's New Center Building. Their faces were grave. On the other side of the table sat some 30 newsmen from New York, Washington, Chicago and Cleveland. They had been invited to Detroit so that they could hear and tell the U.S. the sad story of the automakers. The story: optimistic talk of overnight conversion of the auto industry to car production, come an early V-E day, is stuff & nonsense.

Solemnly, with due regard for the ears of competitors at...

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