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Rubber dolls are no more. Their stuffed substitutes will have fewer elastic joints, movable eyes, mamma voices, eating and diaper-wetting apparatuses. Doll clothing, always in the latest style, features narrow skirts, narrow belts, simple lines, in line with WPB directives for adult clothing...
...doused duckhunting yet. Shotgun shells weren't short or rationed (despite WPB freezing of all 12-gauge shells for aerial-gunnery training, war-plant protection and riot squads). Not all coastal marshes and inland waters were restricted. And most comforting of all, the Government is counting on the sportsman's annual 54,000,000-lb. bag of waterfowl and small game to help fill the U.S. dinner plate...
Interesting to note is the fact that more than 50 per cent of the cases dealing with war problems became obsolete within several months after release. The timeliness of these war industry cases, conversion problems, and consequences of WPB and OPA edicts keeps the students very much aware of current conditions...
...hours to fill out Government forms. Another tiny manufacturer got so far behind on his paperwork that he had to shut down for three weeks to catch up. Some tell-us-everything forms "reached the dimensions of a small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves of "bootleg" forms, not to mention countless stop-the-press telegraphic requests for information and duplicating queries from decentralized regional...
Small wonder, as one proud committeeman bragged last week, that "we were the most unpopular committee in WPB but business just loved us." Don Nelson planted himself squarely on the side of business, extended his red-tape surgeons' practice...