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...worst news of all was that the U.S., which had had ten years of good crops, and which is the largest single supplier, this year had to record a failure. It had been a bumper year again for wheat, but the corn crop had withered. The total supplies of U.S. cereals, as estimated last week, were 14,400,000 tons under 1946, which was almost exactly the amount the U.S. had exported to needy nations...
Marine Rescue. The suite was in the name of Kerschbaumer, a Pittsburgh supplier, who had been lured there himself by a promise of 300,000 tons of steel. Also present were middlemen, lawyers, and "company representatives" who assured the buyers that they would have confirmation of the orders from the mills in the morning...
Biggest drag was continuing supplier strikes; General Motors alone was burdened with 63, down from 143 at the end of May. Chrysler had to shut down this week to let parts supplies and materials catch up, a move that will cut the week's total production by at least 20,000 units. And somewhere in the murky water was the added threat, first visible last fortnight, of new wage demands by the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. First on U.A.W's list: Chrysler...
...Congress went home-perhaps to stay until January-a sudden quiet fell in Washington. The industrial and labor fronts were quiet, too, except for lingering disturbances like the supplier strikes which were still crippling automobile production...
Because of supplier strikes and production-line bugs, at week's end only five pilot cars had rolled off the Willow Run lines...