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...potatoes, but there was, at the moment, a shortage: 1) half the Florida crop froze last fortnight; 2) the Army took over half the Idaho crop and big fractions of Oregon's, Nebraska's and Maine's; 3) Maine shippers were short of refrigerator cars; 4) OPA's ceilings, as usual, did not apply to growers. And many growers held out for prices too high to give wholesalers any margin at all. As a result of these factors, the public took to sporadic-and senseless-hoarding...
...away from everything." But after a month, during which he was scared stiff whenever he rode on a public conveyance, he shipped on a 29-day coastwise trip. One night "I was in bed and it was the first [alarm] I heard since I was torpedoed, and I practically froze in my bed. I didn't want to get out. I was musclebound, you might say, for several seconds." After that trip, he was sent to the Long Island rest home. After two weeks he was still afraid of crowds, and a short jaunt by train and ferry almost...
...East Coast householders last week fretted and froze over the fuel oil problem, they at least had one big consolation: thousands of nonwar businesses were in trouble too. OPA's order to slash oil use up to 40% was playing havoc with hotels and laundries, stores and office buildings with their own private power plants, semi-war industries like paper mills and textile dyers. Examples...
...Portland, hiked gross revenues threefold to $5,000,000, lifted profits from zero to over $400,000. Meanwhile Hunter made a long survey flight to Alaska, followed it with a CAB petition for a commercial route to Fairbanks, others to New York City and Washington. But the war froze these petitions in their pigeonholes, forced Airman Hunter to look for something else. He found it in a big Army contract to fly anything & everything from Minneapolis to Alaska...
Child's Play. In Washington, the WPB froze ice cream...