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After a week off from running enemy formations-the Freshman team impersonated Yale this week-Boston's Jayvee team is about at its peak offensively, but recent injuries will hamper the coming New Haven operations. Captain Ossie Keiver, the left tackle, dislocated his elbow against Brown and will be available for but sparse action if at all. A couple of men on the and squad are banged up and second-string center Dick King is just recovering from injuries...
Crisis Crimped? Office of Defense Transportation Director J. M. Johnson announced that freight-car production in October reached a postwar peak of 8,394. He hopes that the goal of 10,000 cars a month, scheduled for September, might be reached this month. Reversing a three-year trend, the U.S. in the last two months has built more cars than have been scrapped...
Inspired by the discovery of paintings showing the fur trade, "Across the Wide Missouri" follows the climax and downward spiral of a gigantic enterprise. Beaver, a million coats and hats, was the lure. From 1832 to 1838 the industry reached a peak in both volume and competition. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company pulled all the steps to squash its competitors and they all combined against Britain's Hudson's Bay Company. Willful trapping destroyed the beaver, glutted the market and prices dropped. In a short time Astor was left holding the field...
Businessman Santa Claus had both good & bad news in his reports to small-fry customers last week. Now at the peak of its pre-Christmas hustle, the toy industry is shipping a greater variety of playthings than it has turned out since 1941. On retail toy shelves there is many an eye-catching new number, and rubber and metal toys not seen in any quantity in five years. The bad news is that prices are higher (about 10%) and the supply of some items, such as electric trains and dolls, is far short of demand. (One big store estimated that...
Manufacturers blamed the rise on "a cost-price squeeze." Thus, they pointed out that between May and August hide and skin prices advanced 38 points on the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale index while shoe prices advanced less than 3 points. (But hide prices were still under the peak of last November while shoes were well up from then.) Said Lawrence B. Sheppard, president of the National Shoe Manufacturers Association: "In the shoe industry, replacement pricing [i.e., raising the price of previously manufactured shoes to cover replacement cost] must be substituted for wishful thinking...