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Complete plans, however, have been laid in the event that it is deemed necessary to remove the museum treasures from Cambridge. Lumber for packing cases and other essential materials for an evacuation have been collected, and it has been decided just where to send everything if a mass removal of valuable exhibits becomes necessary...
...operators, but shippers, will feel this blow worst. In normal years the Canal route carried 1,486,000 tons of lumber, 1,223,000 tons of foodstuffs from the Pacific Coast, 1,221,000 tons of steel products from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. To move all this over land will take 17,500 railroad cars, and the railroads are already under strain...
Shortages. The merchants recognized shortages of merchandise as a challenge to their ingenuity. When they asked themselves what merchandise is affected by priorities, they found the answer to be "everything." Example: lumber is not short, but solvents, oil and pigments used in paints and lacquers are. So even furniture output will be hit. The 1942 scarcity timetable in soft goods...
...Elizalde family was probably the richest in Manila. In terms of the potential wealth of its strategic investments, it was far richer than that would suggest. Last week there was no news of the Elizaldes' inter-island shipping fleet, gin and rum distilleries, three sugar mills, lumber company, insurance companies, paint and floor-wax factory, huge rope factory, cattle ranch, iron mines, gold mines...
...handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry 20 billion. > The Northwest's third largest industry after lumber and fishing is tourists. Foreseeing a poor year, Oregon last week canceled its $100,000 tourist advertising budget, and the unexpended balance of Washington's quarter-million appropriation was held up. > SPAB's newest member Jesse Jones announced a 400,000-ton synthetic rubber expansion which he believed...