Show Steep makers are hampered by bya a shortage of scrap iron and steel The shortage is so critical that hopes are entertained that the new congress will permit the purchase purchase pur pur- chase and shipment to the United States of steel scrap discarded by American troops in England It is difficult to believe that there is anything like a shortage of steel scrap when one thinks of the auto automobile automobile automobile mobile junk y yards that mark the entrance e in every county seat town in the nation at least two more years of world grain shortage the government has set a 1948 wheat planting goal topping any war wartime wartime wartime time or post war mark to date The agriculture department will ask farmers to seed at least 75 million acres of wheat in order to permit this country to continue large shipments to shortage areas abroad at least until the fall harvest harvest harvest har har- vest of 1949 Heart Heart disease accounted for one third of all deaths among am ng policy holders in 1946 and more than p policies were paid as death claims for heart disease deaths according to the Institute of Life Insurances This represents more than twice ice the number umber of paid as claims for death resulting from cancer the second l largest cause of death during the year The recent flight around the world in 72 l hours urs will call to the mind of old timers the trip of Nellie Bly around the in m 80 days hailed at the t e e as as a remarkable remarkable re remarkable re- re achievement |