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...companies whose war contracts face renegotiation, the War Department Price Adjustment Board last week showed the razor edge of its scalpel. During the year ended May 1, PAB revealed that contracts totaling $18,500,000,000, held by 1,658 companies, have gone under the knife. Two-thirds were found to have excess profits. From them the U.S. recovered $1,866,000,000 in excess profits, almost two-thirds of it from price reductions on future deliveries...
...These young naval officers that we see about the place, all wearing terrific piratical beards, are now the lucky fellows," sighed Novelist J. B. Priestley in a BBC broadcast in which he modestly boasted that he had been using the same razor blade for a month. "Women say they dislike beards," said he, "but that, I fancy, is because women can't help having a secret and uneasy respect for the bearded male, a respect they don't feel for us smooth-faced fellows...
Toilet articles will be issued, including a razor and blades, but GI toothbrushes are rumored to be somewhat flabby. Electric shavers are usually useable, but are often inconvenient in barracks. Extra socks, which may be need, can best be obtained at the PX. A radio is allowed, but must be small...
Last week the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare estimated that the Germans had plundered $36,000,000,000 worth of automobiles, petroleum products, zinc, lead, nickel, tin, hides, clothes, soap, toothpaste, razor blades, cotton, cattle, bauxite, cauliflower, fish, horses, wines, locomotives, trains, trackage, houses, seaport equipment, steel works, forests, trucks, tank cars, art collections, cattle herds, ships, in the countries of conquered Europe...
...Polectron and Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...