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...Abolished price ceilings on another broad range of consumer items, e.g., poultry & eggs, soaps, paint, window glass, which are now selling generally below ceilings; and a first batch of industrial commodities, e.g., crude rubber, scrap metals, iron ore, lead, zinc, tin, petroleum & gas products, some of which are pressing ceilings and may well advance in prices...
...prices (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than the law of supply & demand reasserted itself. In areas where shortages still existed, prices moved up. On the West Coast, crude oil went up 10? a barrel, and Socony-Vacuum predicted a nationwide boost of 1? a gallon in the price of gasoline. Scrap copper, supplies of which had dwindled to almost nothing in expectation of a free market, scooted up 4? a lb. to 25?. Since that was more than the ceiling price on refined copper (24½? a lb.), metalmen were sure that the refined metal will spurt closer to the world price...
...cars, whereas materials have been allotted for only 1,250,000. Automen have had their hands full getting enough metals for even that many cars. With metals still tight, a bigger test will come when & if ceilings on copper, steel and aluminum are abolished. Since scrap prices are rising, the primary metals are sure to follow if the ceilings come...
Although the Archives Room in Widener V is the University's official Hall of Records, it doubles as a four-walled scrap book of Harvard's three centuries. Archivist Clifford K. Shipton '26 stores his collection of momentos on the same shelves as the most revered official documents. Next to a pedantic monograph may be an 1880 rugby football or the obscene Latin sign that once festooned the Yard privy behind University Hall...
...months to the day after the European Coal-Steel Community treaty (Schuman Plan) was signed and sealed, its six member nations* this week prepared to surrender control of their coal industries to a supranational cabinet: the nine-man High Authority. Europe's scrap-iron trade will be handed over in March, and its steel industry in April...