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...there is an egg shortage in sight. War Food Administration has on its hands 1,400,000 cases of eggs-approximately a half billion eggs. WFA is still frantically trying to get rid of eggs. Warehouse space is badly needed, some eggs are turning rotten (TIME, Aug. 21). Helpfully, eggmen recently tried to buy 47,000 cases stored in Providence. But WFA promptly turned them down: the bids were not so high as WFA's rigid high ceilings. Many eggs turned bad while the price rose...
...August eggs were outcasts. "They tear you down socially," said a Listerine advertisement roundly condemned by New Vork Mercantile Exchange members who trade in eggs for a living (TIME, Aug. 17 ). Last week eggmen were bewildered when a Listerine Tooth Paste advertisement cried: "Eat more eggs. . . . Buy six dozen with that $3 you save." Observers wondered whether eggs and Listerine had come to terms or whether eggs were being shrewdly boosted with tooth paste savings that their odor might be washed away with Listerine...