Last week was post-war planning week around the U.S. convention circuit. As businessmen met to exchange ideas and forebodings, there was one encouraging overtone to their conversations: they agreed to "some sort of post-war planning" for their own industries. That meant they had at least stopped regarding a post-war collapse as inevitable, begun figuring out how it might be avoided instead.
Shipping. In San Francisco, 800 shipping moguls at the American Merchant Marine Congress sponsored by the Propeller Club found that 1,152 new vessels had been added to their fleet since their last meeting....
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