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it more and more difficult, even impossible, to carry on operations 

 as usual. 



The Governor of Michigan has announced that they will havie 

 a very serious condition in Detroit and other automobile producing ^ 

 areas because of unemployment brought about by the restriction of 

 automobile production, which in turn is caused by the shortage of 

 materials used both in automobile production and in the production of 

 armaments. In addition, small businesses aJJL over the country are 

 finding that their opportunities for carrying on business as usual 

 are being greatly restricted, eind there is a tendency for such manu- 

 facturing concerns who do not have armament contracts to greatly 

 restrict output or go out of business. This condition will have a 

 tendency to make the current prosperity more spotted geographically 



and also will tend to slow down the increase in business activity. 



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 One solution might be a wider distribution of armament orders so that 



industries driven out of production of peace— time goods might continue 

 to operate even though they require some revision in equipment and re- 

 training of the workers. 



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