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Stop Salvage. Zealous patriots, spurred on by Government salvage campaigns, have buried paper mills and junk collectors in wastepaper. Lack of further storage space made Lessing Rosenwald, chief WPB junkman, cry "uncle" last week. He begged collectors to hold their paper...
Nightshirts. WPB had already cut an inch and a half off men's shirttails, had forbidden pockets and pointed collars, to save material. Last week WPB discussed pajamas, considered restricting sleeping garments to three styles: one shortened version of the old-fashioned nightshirt (now worn voluntarily by only 1% of U.S. males), two types of pajamas stripped of collars, lapels, pockets, sashes, piping...
Outsize Women. WPB, in restricting women's clothes as to style, size and length, provided special exemptions for women of "unusual height." Badgered to define giant-size, they agreed last week on 5 ft. 8½ in. and over...
...retailers are choked with goods; New York City department-store inventories for April were 77% above last year, while sales showed only a 4% increase. To correct the maldistribution, WPB announced it would soon curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...
Kindelberger's blast made automen turn rage-red. WPB's auto chief, Ernie Kanzler, branded it "perfectly ridiculous." G.M.'s* Fisher Body division said that it has shipped a steady stream of sub-assemblies to North American for months. Murray Body is eleven weeks ahead of schedule on sub-assemblies for Douglas and Boeing. Cracked Chrysler Chief Kaufman Thuma Keller: "I think the auto industry will take care of itself." Big, burly Ford Production Boss Charles Sorensen remarked that automen had always looked upon the planemakers as "little custom tailors...