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...expert: Howard Stanley Marcus (Dallas' elegant Neiman-Marcus), able department-store executive who stitched up famed WPB Order L85 for conserving yardage in wartime dresses. Crowed Expert Marcus: "New York is finished as a manufacturing center. . . . They're making clothes in Kansas, Philadelphia and Texas now and they won't give it up. The day is gone when only a New York dress is a good dress...
Because of the great industrial demand, Congress three months ago authorized the Treasury to sell or lend war industry part of its silver hoard not needed for currency backing - under WPB restrictions. The Treasury has released 700,000,000 oz., a half-billion dollars' worth...
...chortle at two May prattfalls: 1) the Arkansas Utilities Commission, which hired the May Co. to make a survey to help develop postwar industries, angrily called the preliminary May survey a valueless rehash of what it already knew; 2) with his usual fanfare, May made a free survey for WPB on "What is holding up production?" Last week he announced that WPB was acting on his report. WPB-sters said it was promptly pigeonholed...
...other canned features, refusing new subscriptions, telescoping editorial content, etc. Because advertising is booming, and population in war-industry cities is mushrooming, they have not done the job too well. In this year's third quarter some 230 newspapers had to get extra allotments of newsprint from WPB. (Biggest grant: 1,772 tons to the Los Angeles Times; smallest: one ton to the Salem, Ohio News...
...WPB's Donald Nelson wants to up newsprint production (war prisoners, furloughed Canadian soldiers may be used to cut pulpwood in Canadian forests). But he is not optimistic. Said he last week: "There will be even less newsprint...