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...Reynolds Co. raised the price of its cigarettes-Camels will cost an extra cent a pack-and other major tobacco companies followed. Some textile prices had risen as much as 22%.* Emerson and Du Mont announced higher prices for their television sets. Rubber climbed upward and tire manufacturers increased their prices 5% to 12½%. Gasoline was up 2? a gallon...
Everybody seemed to be remembering 1942. It was the period when new automobiles suddenly disappeared and a rubber tire brought $30 to $40, no questions asked. In that year ice cream was limited to ten flavors, and there was an abrupt end to such goods as metal hair curlers, refrigerators, radios and beer in cans. In Washington, the Wafflebottom Club was founded-for businessmen who spent long hours warming cane-bottom chairs in the anterooms of Government agencies. The drinking public discovered to its horror that every blast of a 16-in. gun consumed 60 precious gallons of alcohol...
...were coming. Home appliances would also suffer, and especially television sets, which use plenty of electronic gear. There was more natural rubber than in 1942, and synthetic plants that were either in operation or could be within a few months, but a fuller mobilization might still bring a civilian tire shortage...
...million, boosted its net more than a third to an estimated $116 million, including $28 million in dividends from its General Motors .stock. Monsanto Chemical's net rose 64% to $13.1 million. Atlantic Refining Co.'s net shot up from $12.5 million to $17.6 million, General Tire & Rubber's rose an eye-popping 251% to $1,600,000, and Republic Steel, which turned in $25.4 million in the 1949 period, reported a rise to $37.7 million...
...Need. Yet consumers still rushed to stock up on items which they feared might be cut back by war production; motorists grabbed up tires so fast that some U.S. tiremakers had to put their dealers on allocations. As General Tire & Rubber Co. explained in newspaper ads, the rush was needless. There was no real shortage; the rubber companies were at peak production and in May had hit a new record of 7,369,190 tires...