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...Corporation will impound all war-material surpluses-machinery, tools, raw materials, even military and naval camps, barracks and flying fields-in one tremendous reservoir. Sales will be controlled. The trick will be to release material slowly enough to avoid a market glut and unemployment, fast enough to prevent equipment's becoming obsolete...
...much meat-on the hoof. Farmers now have an estimated 78,000,000 head of cattle and 75,000,000 hogs, the greatest number in history. Since the nation does not have enough feed for these enormous herds, some of them must be slaughtered. The slaughtering means a temporary glut of meat...
...Spinach was being dumped, left to rot, forecasting what will come when seasonal fresh vegetables, abetted by thousands of Victory gardens, glut the market. The outlook for commercial canners is gloomy. Reported the American Institute of Food Distribution in Manhattan: canneries, unable to get help with the low pay the wage freeze caught them with, have closed in Maryland, Texas, Indiana and New York. Canneries in Washington, Oregon and many another state are threatening to close...
Originally the Student Council had proposed that the University provide some method by which student furniture might be purchased and a glut on the market prevented. So far this program has not met with the approval of the University, although such a program was recently instituted at Dartmouth for the purchase of the furniture of drafted students...
Similar plans are under consideration for disposal of student's furniture at Harvard since a disastrous glut on the market may ensue if all men try to sell their belongings at once. At present a committee drawn up by the Student Council is investigating several alternative plans which may be proposed to University authorities...