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Show Match Industry Leaders Say There Is No Shortage NEW YORK. Military demands have sharply curtailed the home front's stocks of matches but the country is facing no real shortage, industry leaders assert. Because they're smaller and occupy oc-cupy less cargo space, 100 per cent of the penny size safeties and 35 per cent of the folder type paper book- matches have been requisitioned requisi-tioned for war service. This leaves 120 billion paper book matches and 200 billion kitchen matches out of 1945's manufactures for civilian consumption. The industry points out that of America's 100 million adults of match-using age about 30 million are equipped with lighters or do not use matches at all. As a result the available 1945 supply means 4,571 matches per capita for the year, ample for all needs if there is no hoarding the industry feels. |