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What is going on there? Yesterday, my July 13 issue of TIME arrived. Today, as I read it, it makes me sick and bitter, and fills my mind with unanswerable questions. The drive for scrap rubber is a "disappointing failure"; the sale of war bonds is $200,000,000 per month below Government expectations; aggressive war must wait until after the November elections; steel laborers seek a dollar-a-day increase in wages...
Bubble Bust. In Great Falls, Mont., prisoners at the county jail wanted to contribute their cell bars to the scrap drive, wrote the county commissioners: "Return our hacksaws - and we will tend to the rest." The commissioners contributed the saws instead...
...crying had turned out to be true. For the continued existence of many peacetime businesses, the painfully slow death of those that are really doomed, is almost a dead loss to the U.S. war potential. It is wasteful of man-hours, of management, of materials and of machinery-for scrap if not for production...
...machine hasn't been used for the last three months and no one can prove it can be used in the next three, find a use for it or scrap...
...prep-school youngsters are eligible but not required to join the Corps. To wear a plain red V on his sleeve, a student must take courses in physical fitness and a war-useful subject (e.g., math), must enroll in at least one home-front job (e.g., air warden, scrap collector, farm worker...