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Last week, the British Government gave RFC a lesson in how it should be done. In Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, it exhibited a tiny motorcycle from British Army surpluses. By week's end, Gimbels had taken orders for 550 of them...
Last week, Surplus Property Administrator W. Stuart Symington told a Senate surplus property subcommittee one big reason why. All surplus selling, said he, should be centered in RFC, instead of being scattered among several federal agencies, and should be spurred by a "dramatic" selling campaign. But this, as Symington well knew, was only part of the trouble. What also had to be done was to light a fire under RFC, which has muddled along shortsightedly trying to get the last penny for every surplus article...
...more coffee into the U.S. during the next three months. Said he: U.S. coffee supplies are so short that a subsidy is "the only alternative either to a return to rationing or to a price increase to consumers of 5^ or more per pound of roasted coffee." Thus the RFC will pay about $25,000,-ooo to Latin American growers, at the rate of 3^ a pound, for all coffee (up to 6,000,000 Ibs.) sold to the U.S. between Nov. 19 and next March...
...reasonable price, Harvester plans to buy the $71-million RFC plant outside Chicago in Melrose Park, where Buick has been building plane motors...
Everybody who talks about the postwar air age isn't going there, but the University of Southern California is. U.S.C. announced last week that it had just bought twelve battle-weary warplanes, including a Flying Fortress and a Mitchell 6-25 from the RFC (total cost: $1,900 for the planes, $2,000 to ship them). U.S.C. also rented cheap the $2 million Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics at Santa Maria, Calif. (175 miles from the U.S.C. campus in Los Angeles), complete with instructors, 50 training planes, 15 hangars, and a 200-acre airport...