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China Will Hoard. The commodity scarcity undoubtedly still continues to lead people to hoard. Medicines today give the best chances of profits for smugglers and hoarders. The Government gives air priority from India to medicine, saying: "Three tons of quinine are worth three tons of guns." To counteract hoarding, the Government announced that American Red Cross supplies were coming in, would be dumped on the market. The Government set up quinine shops in Chungking, where quinine is sold only to patients who swallow it in the shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Year Begins | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Nipples. Babies must still be fed. WPB decided to allow some of its rubber hoard to be used for nipples. But smaller nipples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Patterns | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Russia needs enormous new rubber supplies, and the U.S. stockpile (500,000 tons) is the only substantial hoard upon which the United Nations can draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Point | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...biggest hoard was 15,000 Ib. by a New Jersey electrician who filled a warehouse with sugar two years ago. His wife can get none of his sugar and no ration cards until he disposes of his 577-year supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Sugar Books | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...only thing the Government wants U.S. citizens to hoard - is begging them to hoard - they will not hoard is coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now or Never | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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