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...normal demand. The quick-burning war demand in 1944 will force manufacturers to dip heavily into this hoard, but will still leave them with more than 20 months' supply. While they customarily cure tobacco 24 to 30 months, they could use tobacco cured only 18 months in a pinch, with no harm to the U.S. throat. (The British use tobacco cured for only a year.) Despite heavy Lend-Lease requirements, total U.S. exports are down 4.5% from prewar years...
...Burned areas should have new skin as soon as possible, but not pinch grafts (obtained by lifting bits of skin on a pin point and cutting them free with a scalpel), which seldom look well and often allow the surface to contract - the very faults grafting is supposed to remedy...
...Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias (pinch-hitting for Humphrey Bogart, who was scared to involve himself in so unrefined an act) yowling and prancing through a frenzied, nightmarish parody of The Dreamer and the whole hierarchy of "dream" songs...
...picture was painted coal black. In the Middle West, demand is up nearly 20%; stockpiles down. In the Far West, manpower shortages have almost eliminated supplies of wood and sawdust; the demand for coal has nearly doubled, in hard-coal-burning New England, the pinch is tightest; anthracite mines are short 22,000 tons a day on projected schedules for this year...
...Woman Pays. Tiremaker Burke had been watching the industrial situation closely. He saw a pinch coming soon in tiremaking facilities. Last month he hustled to Washington, convinced WPB that it would be wise to cancel the lease and reconvert The Kelly to tires. Other ordnance plants took on The Kelly's orders, and just 12 days after the deal was made, the first workers were laid off. Within two weeks, the layoffs will jump to 2,000, will crescendo until, in three weeks, the payroll will be slashed approximately 75%, leaving the basic staff needed to install tiremaking equipment...