Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-14 | Page 13 | Business Today

i Business Business Today Today Today- I War Program Now Goes r In Doghouse PAUL FAITh lER GESNER and DY JOHN BECKLEY t NEW YORK Feb 14 Wide World The i The war production program program programs pro pro- gram grams eating up tip or earmarking vital viti strategic raw materials needed needed needed need need- ed for tor arms moved Into Fido's Fido kennel this week In a sweeping order to conserve tin the war production board announced announced announced an an- that after the end of ot this no more dog food may be packed in tin Un cans Dog food was but one of ot a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred items familiar to Mr and Irs Average American that must be retailed in substitute containers To disappear too are tin cans for tor beer tobacco pork and beans I baking powder cereals flour petroleum petroleum petroleum pe pe- pe- pe products spices condiments condiments condi condi- ments and cosmetics Specific lists of ot just what still may be packed in tins were drawn up and distributed by the W P B. B I One of ot a Score The tin can curb designed to reduce tin consumption as much muchas as ag 40 per cent under last year was but one of ot a s score ore of t busineSs business busi busi- ness developments appearing during during dur dur- ing lug the week to jolt Americans Into the realization that the United States is in a war Price Administrator Henderson warned that he would fix maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum retail prices on sugar unless quotations were held within bounds voluntarily Price limits were set on tars Price ceilings were announced for nylon hosiery and the house passed a bill to provide S for civilian defense Continued Japanese conquests In Inthe inthe the far east caused some business f quarters to voice the belief that arms production sights would haVe to be raised again I Meantime dislocations in many manya a job and home loomed as unlisted males between the ages of ot 20 and 44 H prepared to register for military selective service within the next three days days days-a a clerical step in the governments government's plan to increase its 1 armed forces to at least men I Production Continues Apace Throughout the week production tion of ot arms continued apace At AtI Atthe Atthe the Ford bastion in Detroit there I i was a flash of ot labor trouble but elsewhere factory wheels maintained maintained main main- tamed their steady whir In the steel industry the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's mills produced net tons of ot metal the biggest output in three months and compared i with tons last week Electric power production at kilowatt hours in the 3 latest reported period while not the largest in history was the biggest ever recorded for a week at this season of the year Production of crude oil oil life life lifeblood d blood of the war of mobility mobility- increased to barrels daily In the week ended last Saturday 1 a new high level and a rise of ot barrels dally daily over the preceding preceding pre pre- I ceding week Gasoline stocks in inthe inthe inthe the United States stood at barrels an increase of 2414 over the preceding week Prices lIlt Hit High Levels Cash wholesale food prices as measured by the Dun BradI Bradstreet Bradstreet Brad- Brad I street index rose this week to toU U the highest levels since late inI in J I 1926 The Index at compared compared compared com com- pared with in the preceding week It stood per cent above the figure a year ago and per cent higher than the prewar prewar pre pre- war reading of in August 1939 Advancing during the week were ere corn rye mess pork lard peas rice prunes hogs sheep and andt t lambs A little below their recent high levels were flour wheat oats barley butter and eggs