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prove Me d | clusion % - shortage of Mr. Johnson : gis freight cars is the gravest domestic peril contronting America today. ‘ : : His whole point {s that now is the time to get the necessary new freight cars built—that it will be too late after the outbreak of a new emergency because steel will have to be used for armament, . A Ais “We. ought. to have direct allo-} ri wn wishing 2 vert . Zin . } + emer cation of steel for freight cars” , ! he says. “We ought to be buildfag 15,000 to 17,000 ¢éars a month instead - of the 9000 we're now strainiag ‘every nerve to produce.” ] 72,000 Scrapped The government's transportation expert points out that from| : _. 1942 until Tast November we wore] ~~~ ra or - - out more freight cars than we built. Last year, we scrapped 72,000 cars and built 60,000. “If we had built 10,000 cars a month beginning Jan. 1 this year,” he said, “then by October we would have had as many cars as in 1946. And in 1946, we had less than in 1945. And In 1945, we had less than in 1944. And so on back to 1942” :

Robert 8. Henry, vice president . ray of “the Association of American 7 . Railroads, agrees with Col. John- . son about the need for new a freight cars but disagrees with rR Ri SRE of Alarm ik ” “I believe we're no: worse off val War IL” he said. “You just ean’t \ Judge this thing from a statistical . picture.” He pointed out that 30 per cent| ~~ more freight is being carried on| } railroads today than 25 years ago ’ , inainiiicsmimsn sole ANA With 500,000 fewer. freight . , rhs ' cars, 3 Col. Johnson answers this: line : of argument with a golf illustra- \ tion. He says it is easy for a 100-shooter to pare off as many as eight strokes hut it makes a par-shopter “bleed” to get one Sme—— under par, : : ‘ “The railroads today,” he said, “are shooting par. The question is how long can you increase efficiency. The trouble is the railroads have no margin, no reserves, Everything is on the line.” He sald another war would require more railroad cars to carry more men and more material. The railroads need 600,000 new freight - cars and should scrap 300,000, he added, thus providing a good . ) AR Sr rR wr working fleet Of AWO- TAHHOR api csr smn mms ; 741,000 were in operation on Apr, 1. . Fears Perpetual Shortage “But at the present rate of production, considering that we will scrap between 5000 and 7000 each month, it will take eight years to get that number,” he said. . “And by that time a lot of cars . Will, be eight years older.

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cars on order, more than a year’s business for the freight-car build-|. ers and two years’ business for the passenger car. manufacturers. |- Col. Johnson said he would like Sm 4 to see about 8000 new couches! i and 5000 new Pullmans added to! the railroads. !

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