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...most retailers the legal problems were small compared to the pleasurable problem of keeping up with demand. Coonskin hats, the biggest seller next to anachronistic Davy Crockett T shirts, have touched off the biggest run on raccoons since the giddy '205; coon tails once selling for 25? a Ib. are now nearly $5 a Ib. Seattle's Arctic Fur Co., which has shrewdly been buying wolf pelts for years, is producing 5,000 ersatz coonskin hats daily. In some stores Davy Crockett accounts for 10% of all children's wear...
...demand that might take up part of the slack when automakers cut their buying. Even as these reports were being issued, metal prices began to sag a bit. Steel scrap, critically short a few weeks ago, fell $2 a ton, and scrap copper declined 1½? to 2? a Ib...
...Underpants. Last year Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley impressed himself on the folks back home by posing for photographs with his gavel about to descend on the bald dome of New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator H. Alexander Smith; this year New Jersey's 320-Ib. Democratic Representative T. James Tumulty made a big impression by posing in his underpants (TIME...
...haven't eaten butter since I was a WAC in Africa . . . With butter selling at 70? a Ib. and vegetable fats selling for 28?, my family eats the frugal choice. However, is that a good reason to give it away at 42?? If I could buy butter at 64? a Ib. (the price we taxpayers paid), I'd buy ten pounds at a time without its affecting my margarine purchases . . . If my example is any criterion, the Department of Agriculture's bitter butter problem could be solved in a few short weeks . . . Golly, I'd like...
...Cuba last fortnight agreed to deliver 200,000 tons of sugar to Russia for $12 million. Though the price was low (3.05? a Ib. v. the 3.17? world price), Cubans were overjoyed, would gladly accept similar out-of-the-blue orders for the 860,000-ton sugar surplus that is still left...