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...concerted chorus: "How about a pound of cheese?" This teamwork is the result of an extraordinarily successful plan to distribute surplus commodities (technically: "gluts"). The Department of Agriculture asks patriotic citizens, through their more than 500,000 U.S. grocers, to buy Victory Specials. Thus the grocers sell immediately, in peak seasons at good prices, the superabundant harvests that would otherwise rot on the ground, or sell for less than cost...
Waste is the Answer-waste so criminal and so widespread as to give any citizen a temperature. The waste he sees reaches its peak in Army & Navy, but it is pyramided by the sluggish mental attitude of U.S. industry, "too long used to cheap materials and expensive labor, still addicted to the extravagance that made Ford use alloy steel radiator grilles designed to outlast the rest of his V-8 bodies by several lifetimes." Sample horrors en his list...
...score of letters from Cubans telling of poverty and bad times-or at least a reasonable facsimile. Undoubtedly Cuba's prosperity is not yet felt by all classes. But there are also plain and simple facts: 1) Cuba's income this year is at a 15-year peak; 2) Cubans have more automobiles, radios, refrigerators and telephones than ever. Furthermore, the entire export sugar crop has been bought by the U.S. at 2.65? (compared to a pre-war world sugar price of less than 1?), and will be paid for whether or not delivery is taken...
...employment hit a new peak of 53,300,000 in June-up 1,700,000 over May. But even so WPA reckons that unemployment went up 200,000 last month to a total of 2,800,000, because 1,900,000 young people finished school and began looking for jobs...
...stand-by crops have shared equally in the new records. Pork, beef and milk are far above the old peaks. Wheat, corn and oats are not far below their alltime highs, despite smaller acreage. New crops like soybeans, flaxseed, peanuts and canning vegetables have zoomed from nowhere to pass many of the old leaders. Cotton has sagged 39% below the 1926 peak. "A banner year," caroled the Department of Agriculture...