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...which is not far above the cost of gathering it from the scattered wild trees of the jungle. Far Eastern plantation rubber is much cheaper. Synthetic rubber may eventually prove cheaper still. Apparently the only hope for Brazil's war-built wild rubber industry is some sort of quota agreement with...
Limited-service draftees now account for only 5% of the present monthly quota of some 250,000 men (last year: 20%). Reason: the army has nearly as many partially fit men as it can use. Now that full-scale warfare is about to begin, the Army needs men who can fight...
Last week the President & Commander in Chief ordered a fast and hardboiled review of 5,000,000 occupational deferments. Because of past leniencies, the Commander in Chief's Selective Service was 200,000 short of its quota. As a result, the Army had to reduce its college training program (TIME, Feb. 28) and "emasculate" certain units, said the Commander in Chief. He said: "We are well-equipped in food and munitions, but production has drawn overheavily on our stock of manpower...
...Hardship." In planning his daily, McKinnon neatly got around the newsprint shortage. When the WPB refused to let him transfer his job-printing quota to a newspaper allocation, he put together his authorizations for job work, circulars and the Progress-Journal, kept out of WPB's newspaper limitation jurisdiction by not applying for second-class mailing rights...
...industry's labor problem and make beet-growing selfsupporting: scientists had learned how to get single beet seeds. The American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists' was jubilant. Thanks to the seed-splitting dis covery, beet growing would be largely mechanized in 1944. The beet-sugar pro duction quota had been upped 50%. One big beet man exulted: "The beet-sugar industry will soon compete with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering...