Grave New World

> Transportation Coordinator Joe Eastman said there would be no truck production for civilian use after March 1. > Vending-machine makers next month will get 50% less iron and steel than last year, 75% less zinc. > Vacuum-cleaner production for the first quarter will be cut 25-40%. > Electric-light-bulb output will be cut to 1940 volume, about 20% under 1941. Purpose : to save brass and tungsten. > OPM, in a precedent-setting move, ordered all sulphite pulp producers to set aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown Co.) who are too busy with explosives contracts to handle their regular business. > General Motors has received $769,300,000 in new war orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total war backlog to nearly $2 billions. President Charles E. Wilson said G.M. could & would handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry 20 billion. > The Northwest's third largest industry after lumber and fishing is tourists. Foreseeing a poor year, Oregon last week canceled its $100,000 tourist advertising budget, and the unexpended balance of Washington's quarter-million appropriation was held up. > SPAB's newest member Jesse Jones announced a 400,000-ton synthetic rubber expansion which he believed would make the U.S. independent of the Far East for "all military and limited civilian needs." But it will take 18 months.

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