SOME POSTWAR PROBLEMS OF INDUSTRY.

The article presents practical frameworks on which a businessman can build a program to meet his specific postwar problems. Many businessmen, in fact, are about ready to throw up their hands in despair and let nature take its course. Here then is another postwar plan, but it is one that most businessmen can adapt to their own problems. First of all, there are certain trends which affect the nation's whole future economy and all business, nevertheless, within those trends each business organization can to a great extent plot its own course. Business trends are not all inevitable, there is no certain destiny marked out for any person or group. One who has a head start in planning will have a tremendous advantage over one who improvises his actions hurriedly and without coordination when conditions force him to do so. Probably the greatest problem, the one that will affect all businesses to a greater or lesser degree, is whether businesses shall find themselves in a period of boom or depression immediately after the end of the war, or a year later, or two years later.