General Motors' white-thatched President Charles Erwin Wilson gave the House Committee on Postwar Planning a preview of huge G.M.'s huge plans for the future. The news: if all U.S. businessmen plan things the G.M. way, postwar production will be 50% higher than the prewar peak and almost as bigin terms of employmentas it is now. Wilson highlights:
¶ G.M. will need ten more plants as part of a postwar expansion program involving a total investment of $500,000,000 (it had 102 plants, worth $850 million, before the war). And "if the Government has...
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