All along the civilian production front last week, squawks of anguish pierced the air. The defense mobilizers, anxious to speed up the laggard flow of guns, announced second-quarter production quotas which made a deeper slash into civilian goods than most businessmen had expected. The casualties:
¶ The housing industry, which started 1,000,000 houses last year and had expected enough materials to produce 800,000 this year, will get only enough materials to build 600,000. ¶ The appliance industry, which had expected to maintain the 1951 last-quarter production, got another stiff 10% slash (to 45% of pre-Korea output).
Only the auto industry,...
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