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Show I THIS BUSINESS jk SUSAN THAYER wUl The husband of an old friend of mine was passing through town this week and. came to dinner. His business is copper, and it seems his job is to find new ways in which copper can help win the war now and also new uses for peacetime. He was telling us that several manufacturers in the copper industry in-dustry have combined funds and resources to organize a joint research re-search bureau. The old idea of every ev-ery company jealously guarding its processes and discoveries has een scrapped. Now all their knowledge know-ledge is pooled for the common good. "Because," he pointed out, "the thing that is most important to my company after winning the war, of course is the same thing that's important to everyone else, seeing to it that Americans have an opportunity to earn more, buy more and have more. "There's just one way to do it expand production. That means finding ways to make old products better and more cheaply, so more people will buy them, and new products that will create new business bus-iness which means new jobs and opportunities all down the line from manufacturing to retail." "If every industry did what yours is doing " I began. "To a very large extent, they are," he replied. "You'd be amazed at the amount of cooperative research that's going go-ing on, in everything from poultry poul-try to paper." I was delighted to get that sidelight. side-light. It looks as if the manufacturers manufac-turers really mean business. They know people will have to have jobs and money to spend to keep this country running after the war. And they're bound to find enough new products to manufacture to guarantee those jobs. -ll |