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...WPB hinted that, to solve transportation problems, cut down sugar demand, alcohol-distilling equipment from California's wineries might be moved to the Midwest, used to produce grain alcohol...
...WPB ordered 4,000 manufacturers of metal beds, bed springs and mattresses to cut their use of iron and steel 15 to 60% (depending upon the product and the size of the manufacturer...
Donald Nelson's WPB rescinded its previous order to stop all sales of typewriters: now it permitted a maximum output for this year of 500,000 machines, 289,712 of them for Army & Navy, the rest for other Federal agencies and Good Neighbors.* Actually, 500,000 machines is 39% of the 1,260,000 machines which supplied the entire nation, civilian and military, in booming...
...Unhappy members of the $60,000,000 U.S. brush industry heard a WPB-man liken them to the quick & the dead: "We thought we could supply you with nylon. . . . Three days later . . . there was no supply for us. There isn't a substitute material that we know of that that cannot happen...
There will be a new drive to win the Battle of Junk, and this one means business. WPB Conservator Lessing Rosenwald had a new general to plan...