Show I 1 behind the scenes in american business I 1 by john craddock addock Or while the current recovery movement has featured prosperity headlines iles for big industries such as r teel steel factory machinery public utilities and engineering construction some of the less spectacular industries have also been chalking up rosy records of their own retail furniture sales ore are booming g again and manufacturers shipped worth of merchandise I 1 in n september the highest this year september w was as also notable for the fact that it was the first 1938 1038 month in which shipments to local dealers by sash door and frame manufacturers exceeded the sim aim liar ilar month last year rug sales which started the year off poorly will probably come within 10 per cent of the 1037 volume as mills speed up production to meet rapidly rising demand the anniversary of armistice day is a reminder that the world was not made safe fo for rde democracy mo cracy by the world war officials in washington though arent wasting wading time crying over split spilt milk belletine Bel Bell leUng eting they read correctly the count rys sentiment they are pushing it a broad program of national defense preparedness behind all edness mechanisms military experts say lies iles the problem of raw materials america lacks in whole or in part 21 stra getic raw materials according to the war department many we now import have to cross ands of miles of ocean rubber comes from malaya and the dutch east indies bauxite to make inake alum ilium from south america manganese from russia africa india and brazil tungsten from china plenty of manganese indispensable in steel marking exists in the U S with deposits in at least 20 states stales but it requires costly equipment to concentrate the ores li holding back development of a going domestic manganese industry which would serve as wartime insurance strategists point out is t the 11 e fa fact C t the was cut la in half in fit 1935 1035 thereby giving the market almost exclusively to far off nations where the ore Is mined by cheap labor recent developments le have crystallized crystall zed sentiment here lu in favor of legislation such as was as introduced in the last congress designed to solve the raw materials problem by building e emergency lit e r g c n c y reser reserves V eq exclusively from domestic sources this would include cuba in the case of manganese it is felt since the army Is roni recommending mending conditioned develop development of cuban mines to keep available this accessible source in case of emergencies times have changed A farmer fanner today visibly irritated said hed like to plan his next years program but he was sure to conflict with secretary wallace the independent farmer I 1 remember R e ra e m b e r him |