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...building materials, getting scarcer all the time, were earmarked for defense last week. Builders of small homes (costing up to $6,000 or renting up to $50 a month) in 275 areas where new housing is needed for defense workers were given priorities on materials. The priorities, all in the A series, will apply to 200,000 privately financed units and to 100,000 others financed by the Government...
...Leon Henderson were to answer these Latin floors with a U.S. ceiling, Brazilians would yell. It would have a bad effect on the milreis-likewise on the good-neighborly State Department. But if shipping space gets scarcer, the price of coffee may get too high even for State. In that case some sort of import control would be necessary...
Vichy announced that meat would shortly be scarcer than ever (present ration-eleven three-ounce meat meals per month) and enforced fixed menus and prices on all restaurants to end "the scandalous contrast between long lines of persons on the sidewalk waiting for victuals, which frequently turn out to be hypothetical, and the sight of those favored by fortune sitting at well-served tables in restaurants de luxe...
Last week Fifth Avenue's windows put on their big Easter show. Window-shopping critics, looking for trends rather than Easter finery, found this year's windows generally conservative and simple. Gone were the surrealist limbs and torsos of the past few years. Scarcer than usual were Easter bunnies, dyed eggs, live chicks and other such Pâque animals. Most notable trend was toward trickier methods of lighting: display designers lit their mannikins and props with multicolored spots and footlights from all angles, avoiding distracting sun glare, getting increased illusions of depth...
...schedule of reserved occupations is giving producers more to worry about. Fear is that after June, reservations will be removed altogether except for those working directly on Ministry and service films. Already there are shortages in skilled trades; make-up men, sound men, camera men, carpenters and plasterers are scarcer than hen's teeth. Even wigs are a problem, since the hair lace that forms their base was imported from the beleaguered Balkans...