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METALS Silver, despite its artificial price, has become so useful as a substitute for genuinely scarce tin, copper and other metals that the Treasury is going to release 40,000 tons from its own hoard. It has become so useful, indeed, that some of its friends think the No. 1 political metal may even be taken out of politics...
...found that the two big untapped sources of metal scrap are 1) auto grave yards, 2) the nation's 6,500,000 farms, where an estimated one to two and a half million-ton hoard of old machinery lies mouldering. To round up the farm scrap, he decided that paid collectors were necessary. The first thousand collectors announced by Rosenwald last week: WPA workers, with WPA trucks, to go from farm to farm collecting scrap (they will ask for it as a gift, pay for it if need be). It will be auctioned to commercial dealers, who must promise...
...garage owners was that students were cooperating with the government to the fullest extent. Not only are they obeying the letter of the law, but also the spirit. When advised to buy just before the restriction went into effect, many students said that they didn't want to hoard. "Give somebody else a break," or "I'll buy a bicycle if my tires give out," were typical answers...
...nobody has doped out a way to reallocate the jumpy housewife's unmeasured hoard. If she plays squirrel again as she did in 1939 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939) ration cards will be the only way to keep her calmer neighbor in sugar...
When the materials shortages developed, priorities were freely handed out. But since there had been no overall measurement of supply & demand ("They kept raising the sights on us"), priorities orders were soon as unredeemable as Confederate money. Manufacturers, hot for certainty, began to hide and hoard materials; and Ed Stettinius was kicked upstairs to be Lend-Lease Administrator...