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...import and export business in Nicaragua, and I have noticed in TIME the shortage that there is in the United States of rubber, scrap steel, aluminum, brass, copper, etc. There are hundreds of commodities that we are unable to import from your country, such as steel bars, tires, copper wire...
...tape with so many forms and papers to fill." Another firm of Los Angeles, Calif, wrote recently:. "We cannot ship lavatories nor any other sanitary goods as we are unable to obtain allocation for the material required for brass fittings." I offered to ship brass and copper scrap, but they answered that they could not use it as they would have to go through such red tape that it would take years before being through...
Soon you would go by streetcar (if the tracks hadn't been torn up for scrap), buy a Victory bicycle-or you would walk. A Senate committee heard a forecast that 1,000,000 autos would be stranded by July; 12,000,000 by the end of 1943. Already used tires with a few thousand miles still in them were selling for $50 apiece in Phoenix, Ariz...
...Walgreen's decided that these kids needed a "press" behind them. On a bank roll of $8, Leo Shull created it. In a rickety-rackety "office" where day beds jostled typewriters he started a daily mimeographed newssheet called Actors Cues. First issues rounded up every available scrap of casting news. Soon Editor Shull added a personals column, reprinted the critics' reviews, insulted the critics, lambasted snotty producers, tossed in editorials, wisecracks, rumors...
...many a Chinese soldier knows, the Japanese shells that tore his body were made from U.S. scrap iron. Last week the circle was complete: silk that had gone from Japan to the U.S. was going to China, to be used as bandages. The silk, too, was a kind of scrap: old silk stockings...