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...spite of the unprecedented tax drain, the U.S. went on an Easter shopping spree. Department-store sales jumped 10% to 70% to an alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...
Since 1942's carloadings are making history, the railroads expect to need up wards of 1,800,000 cars to carry the fall traffic peak, which appears likely to reach an alltime record. To meet this demand the Office of Defense Transportation had requested 130,000 new cars for delivery during the last eight months of the year. These, in addition to the 45,000 cars which the railroads were authorized to get by May, would give the railroads some reserve against unpredictable peak loadings...
Specializing in the 50 and 100 yard free styles, "Big John" started off somewhat slowly but was a consistent winner by the end of the season. He hit his peak in the Yale meet, winning the 50 yard free style in 23.9 seconds, which was the best time turned in during the entire campaign by any Harvard swimmer entered in that event...
...substitute for a lot of burlap. But last week, hemp was in such a parlous state that the agricultural fantasy of the century was being seriously pushed in Washington. Commodity Credit Corp. hoped to obtain 240,000,000 lb. of home-grown hemp, 14 times the U.S.'s peak production in World War I. CCC has barely taken its first baby step in the program: persuading U.S. farmers to plant 35,000 acres of hemp for 350,000 bushels of seed. To achieve that goal, the seed for the seed must be in the ground within three weeks...
...stocks have dropped 2,000,000 bbl. a week; now they total only 50,000,000 bbl.-about a month's supply in normal times. The oil shortage now, as it was last fall, is really a transportation, shortage, but this time it is acute. At the peak of last fall's oil scare, about 20% of the 300-odd tankers that usually ply the Atlantic Seaboard were on loan to Britain. Now tanker service has been chopped 45%, partly because of submarine sinkings, partly because of restrictions on tanker movements to prevent sinkings but mostly because...