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Meantime Argentina's surpluses piled up implacably: e.g., 80,000,000 bushels of flaxseed compared to last year's already catastrophic 50,000,000. In Buenos Aires, to conserve fuel, neon signs were doused, cinemas closed earlier, corn helped stoke locomotive and power-plant boilers. Autos & trucks were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Price of Pride | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Why should those of us who thought it better to conserve our wealth in the form of tires instead of in trips to the West Indies, for instance, be subjected to such discrimination?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Since Pearl Harbor, the U.S. has made herculean efforts to conserve burlap, to get in as much more as its thin line of groaning ships can bring. By Government order, two-thirds of all burlap is earmarked for military needs, the other third for essential farm needs. Non-essential users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jute, Hemp and Bedlam | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

> During the week he wrote the 48 State Governors asking them to conserve rubber by limiting maximum road speeds of all motor vehicles to 40 miles per hour, and to require frequent checking of tires for possible repair and retreading. Reason: the nation's tires on its 30,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: President's Week, Mar. 23, 1942 | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

War Effort. To conserve paper, Harvard called off the annual June Class Day confetti battle between old grads.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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