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Although several colleges last year prohibited student ownership of cars after the first pinch of gas shortages, Harvard merely sent letters to students last fall pointing out that shortage and "urged" that cars be left at home...
...Army (TIME, Aug. 10), said happily that there is no shortage of steel-"but there is maldistribution." Said C. E. Wilson, his successor as president of General Motors: "If the Government will review its requirements carefully, it will find the shortages not as bad as feared. The pinch has been exaggerated." Yet last week, for lack of materials, WTright Aeronautical had to shut down one 3,000-man department of its huge Paterson (N.J.) engine plant for two days; last week WPB admitted that the available supply of steel in June was 5,690,000 tons v. a total demand...
...steel pinch is tighter than ever. As its solution of the problem, WPB gravely issued a flock of super-priority ratings (like AAA, AA-1, AA-2) to some former holders of the highly prized Aia. Results are fantastic. Machine-tool builders, for example, cannot even wangle a promise of delivery on their A-1-a orders...
Plans are still in the making for a new mess hall to be constructed by the Navy Supply Corps School in Soldiers Field. The structure will do much to alleviate the pinch on dining hall facilities caused by increasing numbers of Navy trainees...
...Germans are bullheaded and overbearing. Not all Japanese are bucktoothed. Not all Italians pinch bottoms. But last week Adolf Hitler could well agree with the Duke of Alba, Philip of Spain and Napoleon before him that all Dutchmen are stubborn. The evidence...