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...Little Room. Many a port was deep last week in boxed planes, tanks and Lend-Lease food supplies awaiting cargo space. To avoid the pile-up of 1918, which led to the Government's taking over the railroads, WPB is building a chain of emergency depots near the coasts, where goods can be stored more safely than at dockside. In some defense areas, warehousemen have pooled facilities...
...instead? Of the 43,000,000 pairs of women's full-fashioned hosiery shipped last year, 7,000,000 were all nylon, 22,000,000 were all silk, and all but 1,500,000 of the rest were either silk or nylon from the knee down. Fortnight ago, WPB ordered the rayon industry to increase the percentage of its output earmarked for hosiery. But the increase (from 9 to 12% of the viscose and cuprammonium output and from 5 to 6% of acetate) was not enough to make up the difference in quantity, even if women liked rayon stockings...
...WPB men who think that subcontracting will win the war were talking last week about an ingenious new mechanical scheme to increase subcontracting. Its author is a fast-talking, high-domed, ex-filling station owner from Richmond, Va. named James S. Stanley, who has a passion for punch cards and Hollerith sorting machines. He was last heard of eight years ago as the founder of the Leisure League of America, to which he contributed suggestions for 700 ways to kill time. But his own hobby has always been work...
...Many a short or shallow vein of ore lies unused for lack of capital. Ickes wants authority to certify borrowers to the RFC to exploit uneconomic reserves of metals WPB needs. If private enterprises are unwilling to accept such loans, the Secretary contemplates (without, he says, enthusiasm) direct exploitation by the Government...
...tons of recoverable manganese hidden in small ore bodies; eight mills and three hydrometallurgical plants could turn it into a four years' supply within five years. The Bureau of Mines has a two-stage process for getting alumina from a variety of domestic clays, shales and feldspars; if WPB would specify this process in future alumina plants instead of the commercial Bayer process, it would save the long bauxite haul from Dutch Guiana. The Bureau also has three new processes for producing magnesium...