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What the OPA-WPB team now proposes to do is so kindergarten-simple in outline that consumers might well ask why it was not done long ago. WPB will tighten its control over the supply of cloth to converters and clothing manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 4). Cloth will be released only for the types of clothing WPB wants produced, and within certain price ranges. Meanwhile, OPA will roll back prices to 1943 levels. Thus WPB can force garment manufacturers to switch their output back to inexpensive underwear, shirts, house dresses and other scarce articles...
...price rollbacks were greeted by cries of anguish from converters and garment manufacturers. But OPA stood firm, prepared to unlimber its big guns on the biggest evil of all in the textile price situation. OPA's target: the upgrading of cloth and garments by converters and by style experts who, by adding an extra print, or a fancy ruffle, have vaulted ceiling prices and upped their profits 800 to 1,400% since war began...
Plotted Energy. Before he donned the cloth, Boston fans got one final look at the Flying Parson in motion. He gave his schoolboy rivals handicaps up to 90 yds. in the Boston Y.M.C.A. twomile, then won going away in slow time...
...Wash. In Washington, the War Production Board, revealing that 1944's output of diaper cloth was up 93% from 1939> provisoed that because 31% more babies were born last year the individual yardage had expanded only...
...Items: a hat collection which fluctuates be tween 140 and 400 with a complete annual turnover; five furs; 20 cloth coats, 150 pairs of shoes, 40 evening dresses, 75 blouses, 25 daytime dresses, 18 cocktail dresses, ten miscellaneous dresses, uncounted suits. "I do not like dresses," she says. "I live in suits...