Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Zoot suitists deprived of drape shapes, reet pleats and stuff cuffs by WPB edict have a new decorative theme with which to express themselves in San Francisco and Oakland. War-working jalopy jerks find love stripes, painted diagonally across the doors of their hot irons,† the quickest way to let hep twists know what kind of wolf is giving them a gander. One stripe indicates single male on the scout. Two stripes-going steady but still stuff seeking. Three stripes-practically engaged, looking for no pickups. Four stripes-in the saddle, all soaped up, or married...
Rises in sheet-music sales have paralleled piano sales which rose from a depression low of 22,000 pianos in 1931 to 114,734 in 1941. Last July this upward flight of pianos was abruptly .terminated when the WPB stopped piano manufacture, turned U.S. piano factories into airplane parts plants. But Tin Pan Alley's publishers hope sheet music will go marching on, for the American home is already well stocked with pianos...
...appointed a reconnoitering committee, headed by bombastic, nonscientific Maury Maverick, ex-Congressman, ex-mayor of San Antonio, to make recommendations for a bureau of production research. Maverick did his work quietly for once. Yet the result was a politico-scientific rumpus which brought to a head the issue: should WPB's research problems be assigned mainly to big, well-heeled research plants or to small, specialized laboratories? For a solution, much depended on the character of the man appointed to head OPRD. WPBoss Nelson has neatly avoided committing himself by picking his choice. Rhode Island-born Harvey Davis...
...production jobs done during the war. Biggest shadow over the operation now is the semicompleted armor-plate mill which lumbering Carnegie-Illinois is putting up in the Chicago area. Desperate for equipment, Carnegie is casting envious eyes at machinery now used by the Stand ard pool. Question now before WPB is whether the pool has not made the new Carnegie plant superfluous...
...once thought nothing of spending $300,000 for stages and costumes in a single musicomedy, this is the end of the line. But the prop boys went to work, are now using such non-Hollywood items as retouched scenery, secondhand lumber, repaired costumes-even unkinked used nails. Besides this WPB has cut film use by 10% to 24%, threatens a still bigger cut next year...