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...Latin American route mileage increased 15%, miles flown 34%. With shipping scarcer, Pan Am's 60 weekly flights south from the U.S. are more & more vital to hemisphere transport...
...Production of cotton textiles is running at the fabulous annual rate of 12,500,000,000 yards. Reason: half of it is being used for war purposes, in many cases to take the place of much scarcer materials (wool, jute, etc.). Before the war, each U.S. citizen used about 20 lb. of cotton, each U.S. soldier needs about...
...Government last week was engaged in an undercover struggle with the British Empire to correct the wildest paradox of the war: gold, which nobody really needs, is still being mined at peak rates, while other crucially scarce metals are made even scarcer by the tightening pinch in mine labor, equipment, shipping space...
...Substituting scarcer aluminum for scarce copper (thesis: bauxite-in-the-ground is more plentiful than copper-in-the-ground...
...fears never materialized. Domestic theater receipts have more than made up the differences, will touch $1,100,000,000 this year - equal to the record made in 1930. Furthermore, Hollywood has little fear of priorities. Its chief raw material - talent - is just as scarce as ever, but no scarcer...