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...line of attack was with chemicals. Problem: to find fungicides that would not hurt the crops. During the past decade the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Yonkers, N. Y.) has experimented with almost all the standard elements, but farmers still rely chiefly on compounds of sulphur, mercury and copper. Since 1921 crops have been dusted with poison from airplanes. This is the most perilous branch of commercial aviation...
Last week the Maritime Commission received from the Office of Production Management a list of "essential" and "nonessential" imports which soon will be translated into cargo priorities. Classed as essential were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed...
Still ahead lay other potential shortages -steel, copper, brass, power, freight-car manufacturing, foundries, shipping. As an omen of the shipping uncertainty, the price of imports-cocoa, rubber, silk-rose last week. Other commodities (flour, cotton goods, sugar) did the same. Meanwhile wages also nudged the trend. The woolen-textile industry upped wages 10%, and steelworkers met a U. S. Steel offer of 2½?-an-hour increase by a demand for 10?. By this week it was clear that, even if major strikes are averted, the U. S. economy was turning into a shortage economy. Higher inventories, higher prices...
...been through voluntary priorities (i.e., suppliers were asked but not ordered to follow Government preferences). To all defense materials except aluminum and machine tools, this halfway control (or none at all) still applied last week. But official pressure on the producers and fabricators of tungsten, zinc, stainless steel, nickel, copper, steadily increased, their control became less and less voluntary. Mandatory priorities were surely in the offing for a big segment of U. S. industry. OPM continued cheery about the situation, just as Mr. Stettinius had been two months before. The President, discussing the steel outlook, was cheerful to the point...
...Roosevelt's warning to housewives proved none too soon. At the New England Housewares Show in Boston, makers of aluminum ware could not promise deliveries, saw some of the business go to enamelware instead. In Chicago wholesale houseware sales fell off because of the metals shortage (aluminum, nickel, copper). For the same reason Westinghouse dropped three models of refrigerators. (In Manhattan Canada's Controller of Metals reported that Britain's civil use of aluminum had dropped to 2% of its pre-war volume...