Figures, Facts

> U.S. national income in 1941 reached $92 billions, $16 billions more than 1940, $9 billions more than 1929. Common Washington estimate for 1942: $100 billions.

> A 40,000-kw. reserve generator of New York's Consolidated Edison Co. was bought by Defense Plant Corp. to be shipped from Hellgate to Dow Chemical Co.'s new magnesium plant in Texas.

> Manhattan's swank Abercrombie & Fitch is buying & selling secondhand English saddles, shotguns, field glasses, revolvers, because it can get no new ones.

> Putting its spring catalogue in the mails, Sears, Roebuck remarked that some of the substitute materials in its merchandise "have been found to be far superior to the metal they have replaced. . . ." Examples: washing machine agitators, formerly aluminum, are now of Bakelite, vitreous china, enamel or plastic, all impervious to alkalis; a pump unit, formerly of brass and stainless steel, will use corrosion-resisting plastics.

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