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...months ago, WPB ordered gasoline imports to Oregon and Washington cut by one-third. Then it was decided to cut it by one-half. Last week WPB went back to its first ultimatum...
Kaiser's new record comes less than a month after WPB patted him on the back for completing a ship in 78 days-almost one month faster than other builders. Explaining that prefabrication turned the trick, Kaiser this week admitted: "I didn't know whether it would work...
Such a pooling of orders has already been partially imposed on the stove industry (TIME, May 25). Its extension to many other industries on an all-out national scale requires some wartime modification of the anti-trust laws. Over that formality four Congressional committees the Army, the Navy, WPB and the Attorney General's office are already tangled in a fine...
...When WPB blacked out the auto industry after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had only about 500,000 new cars on hand, a two-month peacetime supply. This looked like the tightest shortage of all, so OPA stopped all sales for January and February, allowed only 40,000 cars for each of the next three months. But last week OPA released the April sales figures and proved an astounding fact: even if new cars were twice as hard to get, there would be no serious shortage except, of all places, in Detroit, where new-rich defense workers boosted sales over...
Some bacteria breeders last week feared that they might not be able to meet the rising demand. One reason: shortage of sauerkraut juice. This inspires bacteria to heroic feats of reproduction, so that they now multiply as much in one day as they formerly multiplied in a fortnight. But WPB, which has taken nitrogen from the farmers, allows sauerkraut makers no cans to ship their juices...