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Show FEBRUARY 26, 1942 BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, PAGE TWO BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER "Behind the Scenes in American Business as Second Class Matter Entered at the Postoffice at Tremonton, Utah, at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Week Published JAMES WALTON, Publisher I. p. WALTON, Editor and Business Manager first RPER Phone West Street 3-- J SUBSCRIPTION' RATES $2.00 $1.00 ... 504 ONE YEAR tin Advance) In Advance) BDC MONTHS THREE MONTHS (In Advance) iLe. i G iL 3 5 'To Your Town ice-box- es as well as to your Country in the U. S. wne The eUre.M only pUf averti.i..if m(tr ewermjr.wiy line of bu.mM. ooul aitd or prodjct can he obtamwi free the Amman ina. s.tnr.1 Library ObfisaUoo Ma A.ive.ns.r.8 w Business. ya i Write iotereotsJ in; same will if PATRONIZE YOUR LOCAL MERCHANTS i JLMEEtCAB IKS11STSIAL LlBSiEY NEW YORK, Feb. Both in production and CURBS measures that have control prices, for weeks now are air larsn in the more much definite, more ingetting sistent. Mechanical refrigerators and civilian radios now face absolute deadlines for stoppage, as of ApiU the industries 30 and 22, respectively then swinging over 100 ptr cent to war goods production. Meanwhile, WFB has "frozen" ail stocks of mefor home use exchanical cept those already in dealers' hands or in transit; and retailers will be althe number lowed to sell they sold in all of 1941 (or 100 whichever number is the greater), and thereafter the "freeze" applies to their stocks too. Tightening of screws on prices is seen in OPA's sterner steps to see that radio and phonograph wholesalers and retailers cancel their recent price i creases although actual Opa mandates a fortnight ago applied only to manu- RIGHT IN ITS PATH one-twelf- th facturers' prices. A ? V, AW V I I A typical BITS O' BUSINESS sign of the times is the fact that Uncle Sam received two and a half times as much money from Chysler corporation earnings in 1941 as did all its stockholders; and the quarterly dividend was cut from $1.50 to $1 to conserve cash for war work outlays. Similar action has been taken by General Motors and du Pont. . . The United Air Lines wins the National Safety Council award for safe airline operation in Group A, flying more than 300 million passenger miles in 1941 without a fatality, . . No soap shortage is expected in this war, it of glycerbeing largely a ine, a vital war need; but future soap may be less slippery, because there'll be less glycerine left in it. . . 'Scrap' problem may beset phonograph record industry because ingredients include a resinous secretion of a little bug (not jitterbug) of northern India. is running a modest experiment in the Philadelphia area, paying two cents apiece for old platters, no matter in what condition. RCA-Vict- , 1 v UAL . PAVE THE WAY I v.;. " - t 1 - J,. ".-ar- t' ;r jjj 'H jl 4 !- - lift 31 ."v. COULD BE WORSE In spite of inescapable rises in1 food costs about 15 per cent in the past year grocery bills are taking a smaller cut out of the average pocketbook now than in 1917. The Department of Agriculture reports that the typical working man's family now hands the food merchant about 13 cents less per payroll dollar than he did during the year America entered World War I the figures being 23 cents per income dollar now, against 36, then. Incidentally, that typical family was earning $1888 last year, compared to $1,331 in 1917. The Bureau of Agricultural Ec onomics cites the growth of super market buying one of the outstand ing recent trends in American shop ping habits as being responsible for important economics. More evidence of the latter is seen in a report by the A & P, crediting the super-ma- r ket trend with helping bring its overall operating expenses per unit of sale to the lowest point in its 82 years. It points out that such savings help lower prices to consumers and at the same time send larger proportionate shares of thes retail dollar to producers SHORTAGE SHORTS A sour note on sweet stuff: some hotels that removed sugar bowls and doled out two lumps per patron found sugar consumption going up by as much as 40 per cent and non- users, reminded of the preciousness of the article, began pocketing the lumps) . . . Musical instrument mak ers, starting March 1, may use only 50 per cent as much of certain critical materials as to 1940. . . Restric tions have been extended on cellophane and its silk, because new military needs are being found for them: also it may be needed for laminating (one-lumpe- vt9:: J? WUUlt ;.. -- I" 0aM llHtit or 4f S3 yir ' I f. fc. with paperboard to create substitutes and for metal containers. . . Renewed of shortage gasoline stem. r threats impel some filling station operators associations to ask that last summer's "curfew" be reinstated on a resultcompulsory basis, hoping that and wages ant savings in electricity reve sales offset declining would help -7 nue. One "clue to the the of victory effort enormity that the two in fact the seen may be billion pounds of aluminum the United States is booked to produce annually at the peak of its war effort vastly exceeds total world output for any year before the war. Besides, for every pound of aluminum produced, nine pounds of other materials are consumedbauxite, carbons, cryolite and other tilings, including enough tt bulb electric power to keep a 100 The hours. for plants that burning Aluminum Company of America is building for Defense Plant Corpora tion will have capacity far in excess of the highest annual production the peace time industry of the United States attained in its first 50 years, yet all these plants will be in operation less than a year from the date contracts were let. Each of the two largest of them will produce more of this light metal, so essential for airplanes than the entire nation produced in 1918, final year of World War I. T 4.TOR OPUS all-o- ut ' K" , Crt 1 3HTS jp' A THINGS TO WATCH FOR photoflash bulb made of transparent plastic instead of glass, practically shatterproof. . . A new plastic mending substance, called Nuplastic, for filling cracks and holes, needs only finger-ti- p pressure, has finish which gets stronger with age. . . Office filing cabintes made of wood, but finished like the metal ones (though for years they've been trying to make metal office furniture A gadget for look like wood) attaching a tiny fan to a sewing machine motor (keep cool while "sewing shirts for soldiers," etc) For Victory: Buy Bon&s T. . " V B I S. ,t Tieal tar time much f 00 ' POUNDS OP fCRAF RUSBFR ARE NFEPEP FOR ; EVEpy MEPIUM TANK - .;. , NSS' wen6wSM ZsjOf Buy Now . I . . Avoid Disappointment Later lQliARNESS -S- ADDLES"o Get Guaranteed, Proven Quality, Genuine Leather Supplies, Made Specially for Western Use J. G. EEAD & BEOS. CO. MANUFACTURERS OGDEX, UTAH FREE CATALOGUE ON REQUEST PATRONIZE THE LEADER ADVERTIS iff 0 " . H Continues to Give You o o flunfSfeils of SUITS and Year o Msw TOPCOATS BOUGHT MONTHS AG- O- AND YOU GET THE SAVINGS ... . s -- Oi J.' IT'S EASY THIS WAY -- PvOLl WW HAT JTH THE OLD - fj ( , r( b. and socks pulled by tbt toes wear long&r than when rugged by thei tops. Teach the "littlest one" to treat socks gently A.L OtFIMSJ (ONOi AX0 STAMPS .""yVY' form 1(142, Defense"- - and up STOCKINGS rs, BUY NOW AND SAVE. BE SURE YOU ARE PREPARED. USE THE DUNDEE PLAN. MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW. A SMALL DEPOSIT WILL HOLD YOUR CHOICE. LAY-A-WA- Y V. DBS 157 UanhsQ Filtl. Careful handling of stockings will ease the strain on silk supplies nd vt you money to invest la IBSNU SAVINGS Nct4t MoocyJ STAMPS 1 Wtf 2161 caU pa ries tha' Sir this v soared oX It mil tse 1 in Soys The Bargains of the .V oi jade, c A4 t for y-- m SEMI-ANNUA- L v some be DUNDE V there's jiout fens lw -- Good S (vat ... War Prisoner The international agreement regulating the treatment of war prisoners was signed by 47 nations, includUniting Britain, Germany and the ed States. .. tl j " I 100-wa- rs 'Penny Sense i Washington Blvd., Ogden 262 So. 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