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Plans for Tomorrow 



KIPLINGER'S Washington letters do not often burst 

 forth in prophecy. For all their crisp, gossipy style, these 

 weekly bulletins of backstairs news from the nation's 

 capital, circulated privately among businessmen, are 

 quite circumspect when it comes to dealing with facts 

 and events. Yet under the date of May 26, 1945, their 

 subscribers read these glowing statements: 



"The most important economic development in years, 

 except war, occurred during the past week with only 

 scant attention from the public . . . 



"It is the change in freight rates by the ICC ... a 

 step towards industrial decentralization, which will 

 shrink some cities, expand others, rechannel the flow 

 of trade, attract many workers to new locations, make 

 new jobs for others . . . 



"Not immediately but five years hence, ten years 

 hence . . . areas west of the Mississippi will gain in 

 new manufacturing, new distribution centers, distribu- 

 tion branches, and new population. 



"South and Southwest, the samea strong stimulus 

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