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...Army will reach 8,200,000 in December, probably grow no larger unless war plans change radically. Peak payrolls for fiscal 1944 will be 8,233,083-including 375,000 WAACs...
...president of B. F. Goodrich Co., celebrated the third anniversary of his first synthetic-tire sale with a significant look at the future for all kinds of rubber. He forecast a world rubber demand of at least 2,000,000 tons a year-almost twice the world's peak prewar consumption...
...Before 1950," said an OWI report on air transport this week, "the United States may well have half a million private, commercial and military planes in active service." The report added that "this may seem like a lot" (it is 1,152 times the peak number of planes that all U.S. air lines operated at home and abroad before the war). Other OWI statistics on air transport...
Motorists were hardest hit in Washington, D.C., where filling-station operators hung up "no gas" signs and went home. (Buses to Mt. Vernon were discontinued.) The Richmond Chamber of Commerce persuaded business offices to stagger working hours to ease peak loads on public conveyances. Philadelphia's OPA inspectors, quizzing 1,000 suspected pleasure drivers, found a surprising number of gas users on their way to (or just returning from) their grandmothers' funerals. Manhattan Sunday bus service was slashed deep: Fifth Avenue was empty...
...textile industry's estimates of 1943 needs for all these essentials, run up to 9 billion yd. That would leave U.S. civilians only about five billion yd. (v. a civilian 8.9 billion yd. last year). Even this esti mate includes the entire carryover, assumes that production stays at peak besides...