Show BUYING SPREE SiREE 11 t 1 Mew t York and other cities clUes last fast week experienced the greatest Influx of buyers from Crum department stores chain stores hardware stores and other retail establishments in his his- tory The reason obviously was a last stank stan attempt to cope with the tho 1 which the they realize wll exist during the coming coining year With thousands of of products the market until the end of the war and other types of or products being produced in limited quantities i it was app arant to these buyers that the stores tores they werA threatened with a hunger for Cor mer mer- chandice which they could not sur sur- vive unless they stocked up up t mediately I t M Reports Indicate that most of or buyers got large enough quant t T of to keep them business for some time to c s 's s But at best It It a temporary F sh gap which will keep them op op a aing Ing more or less normally for t tor itt or four tour months and will lead l greater shortage than ever 1 i x J By this buying surge t I tall all available whit not being manufactured any to lc I was put into the hands of ot ret l i 1 When it is gone those pr prec c n rJ items will no longer be avail aval either t to stores or Individual 1 |