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Show 158 Structural shapes and plate accounted. for approximately 42 per cent of this &mOUAt, in the production of which Geneva plays Based upon the West's share of the Western construction of steel major role a construction in 1950 new industry consumed an (18. in the West. (, per cent), estimated 1.6 million tons in that year. products The Automobile Industry.lQ. The Western assembly of automobiles and trucks, and the manufacture of parts for such vehicles, has expanded greatiy 733,252 the on the in recent years. est Coast in A total of 1950, compared and trucks to less than 600,000 were assembled in 1949. 71 In post-war period, the rnajo'r automobile manufactu re s have sought encourage the development cost studies indicate the anticipate on cars that the cars of local feasibility and trucks, sources of such of a for parts wherever supply It step. seems logical themselves, may actually the Pacific Coast in the Dot too distant future, if to to be manufactured population continues its . present-rate of growth and freight costs continue their rise. which border on market for such the Pacific Ocean will also provide The countries tremendous a potential products. An estim.ated 864,449 net tons of steel were consumed by the Western autom.obile industry ducts to the autom.obile 70 Sup1.". 71lfMotor (January, 1951), pp. 1940. 7Z industry totaled In 1950, shipments of steel pro 14,412,707 net tons, which 133-134. Vehicles, pp. in II Western 70-1. Industry, Vol. 16, No. 1 72 Mahoney, "T'he Western (June, 1944), OPe cit., p. 61. Steel Industry, ff Vol. 3, No.1, was |
