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...last week began to feel other shortages on which the U.S. Army could not conceivably offer any advice. The shortage of wool inspired the Hickey-Freeman Co.. of Rochester to query its customers on their reaction to the elimination of vests in spring suits. A shutdown on private radio sets was expected within 90 days. On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel...
...Winter clothing must be light as well as warm. Best combination for cold weather: cotton and wool arranged in layers. The cotton breaks the wind; the wool insulates, absorbs perspiration. The Russians, who know their winter steppes, wear warmer and lighter clothes than the Germans...
...January, department-store sales were 26% above 1941; in the second week, a fabulous 32%. Less than half this rise can be attributed to higher prices. At their regular January white sales, department store counters were jammed with hoarders, laying in supplies of everything from cotton sheets to wool socks...
...presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook...
...spend 50% of the national income for war will entail a cut in nonwar manufacturing (not services) to perhaps 25% of "normal." To cut that much will mean civilian rationing in more things than rubber and autos. Next: wool, canned foods, sugar...