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...Bride. Down to the Washington, D.C. marriage license bureau went WPB's Office of Civilian Supply. Purpose: To use prospective brides and grooms as guinea pigs, find out what kind of furniture they would like to have in their new homes, so future limitation restrictions can be drawn up to meet as many demands as possible of the nation's heaviest furniture buyers...
Whipped Cream. U.S. citizens will get no more sundaes, pies or cakes topped with blobs of whipped cream. To save a billion quarts of milk needed more for butter, cheese and export in dried forms, WPB ordered all sales of heavy cream stopped last week...
...generator at Southern California Edison's Long Beach plant was subjected to "a friendly seizure order" by WPB (to avoid legal delays), will be followed by a second unit within the month. Southern California Edison will get in return a new 80,000-kw. turbogenerator now being manufactured-and the U.S.S.R. will get its additional power supply that much earlier...
...days later WPB allocated to them enough steel and other materials to: 1) start building 286 steam or diesel road locomotives, 100 diesel switchers and 20,000 open-top cars; 2) allocated 1,100,000 tons of steel for new track and maintenance during the first quarter...
...that strategic job: its terms were almost exclusively financial. Mexico needs equipment, not money, at this stage in her war boom. The really good news for Mexican railroads last week was that the hard-pressed railroads of the U.S. had wangled something like adequate promises of new equipment from WPB. Once U.S. roads get enough to keep going, the railroads of Mexico can begin to hope for more than empty promises...