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...some $60,000,000. This year the loss of many an Alaskan salmon will cut the total to 5,500,000 cases-maybe less. Whatever the pack is, the Government will take it. Meanwhile the industry worries about higher costs (wages are up 25%) and where to find more canning employes (the Japs have gone to concentration camps, the Filipinos to war and better jobs...
About 21,200,000 U.S. women are busy as squirrels this year trying to put up the crops of vegetables and fruit with half as much sugar as they would have used last year. To get any sugar at all for canning, each had to look her local ration board in the eye, cross her heart and tell how many quarts of fruit she canned last year, how many quarts remain on her pantry shelves, how many quarts she expects to put up this year, the number of people in her family. The ration board then allowed her only...
...Government agencies were strong for increased home canning, for each jar of fruit put up at home leaves a commercial-pack can for the armed forces, and more freight space for shipping other foods. WPB had provided enough glass jars, paraffin, rubber rings, OPA chipped in the sugar, and, with the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup...
...stand-by crops have shared equally in the new records. Pork, beef and milk are far above the old peaks. Wheat, corn and oats are not far below their alltime highs, despite smaller acreage. New crops like soybeans, flaxseed, peanuts and canning vegetables have zoomed from nowhere to pass many of the old leaders. Cotton has sagged 39% below the 1926 peak. "A banner year," caroled the Department of Agriculture...
...Varieties) is going into "large-scale" production of plastic-plywood airplane and glider parts. To this startling announcement the staid, publicity-shy, 73-year-old food processor flatly refused to add a single word. One leaked-out fact: the work will be done on pressure machines formerly used for canning...