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...latter point, I feel that we ex-movers of mass merchandise have a really legitimate gripe. Personally, while still not 40, I have created and directed the advertising which has sold billions of dollars worth of food products. Yet letters of application to OFF, OPA, WPB, etc., bring either no reply or a polite "Thank you for your offer of service during the present emergency. We will keep you in mind." Letters to the Army and Naval Reserve bring forth the same reply. Incidentally, no commission was requested, and I don't mean the 15% variety. Recruiting offices? They...
Nipples. Babies must still be fed. WPB decided to allow some of its rubber hoard to be used for nipples. But smaller nipples...
...WPB reported that 100 corporations are now turning out 76% of all war contracts over $50,000, v. 82% last fall. More than half are still held by only 28 companies, 21% by only four...
...date at least 20 ideas have been considered worth investigation. Nothing new has turned up. There are half a dozen ways to make rubber-about 50, if impracticable processes are included. More than 1,000 plants are known to contain latex, from guayule (TIME, Dec. 29) on down. WPB experts are open-minded, but rubber samples are hard to analyze. So chemists often don't know what they contain...
supplies, not prices, were the important thing. WPB has al ready ordered roasters to cut their sales...