Monday, Jan. 26, 1942
Facts and Rules
> The entire U.S. cotton-duck capacity is making tents, tarpaulins, stretchers, cots, other Army & Navy needs.
> A.A.R. embargoed all rail freight to the West Coast for export unless shippers can prove in advance that they have steamer space.
> United Fruit Co.'s famed "Great White Fleet" (to Latin America) is now all grey.
> To fulfill its share of the President's new program (60,000 planes, etc.), the Maritime Commission placed orders for 632 more cargo vessels of 7,676,000 tons.
> Willys-Overland became the first automaker to quit autos, is now 100% converted to war goods.
> Seattle Trust & Savings Bank sent photostats of all its records to Chicago for safekeeping.
> Henry Ford, converting to war, closed his beloved Greenfield Village "for the winter," canceled his Sunday radio program after March i.
> U.S. exports in 1941's first eleven months were $4,492,000,000, 21% above 1940's same period and the highest level in II years.
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