Facts, Figures

P:Havana's famed Sloppy Joe's bar closed for lack of U.S. tourists.

P:U.S. copper capacity increased 7.6% last week when Phelps Dodge started producing from its Morenci mine in Arizona (TIME. Nov. 10).

P:Silver consumption last year soared 95% over 1940, to 80,000,000 ounces. Chief new uses: as solder and as a substitute for copper. Silver is one metal for which no shortage is in view: the U.S. Treasury has well over 1,000,000,000 ounces of bullion.

P:WPB added corsets and brassieres to its list of products for which some rubber would be released. The industry's Harold Kurzman said this meant women to whom corsets were "essential" would get them. He did not define the term.

P:Harold Ickes said the East Coast oil situation, owing to tanker sinkings and diversion, was "tight and getting tighter." This time, no one discounted his fears.

P:Monsanto Chemical Co., upon completing a plant for the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service, turned back "an appreciable amount" of its supervision fees to the Government: the plant had cost $200,000 less than originally estimated.

P: New burden for Lend-Lease: The British depended heavily upon their Far Eastern tin and rubber exports for much of the dollar exchange, which they still need. The Empire's pre-Pearl Harbor contribution (exclusive of the United Kingdom itself): some $50,000,000 a month.

P:Some 1,500,000 cases of pineapple products (v. one million a month in normal times) have reached the U.S. since Pearl Harbor.

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