BLACK MARKETS BECOME BIG BUSINESS

...When additional sugar supplies were released for canning, millions of pounds were collected by racketeers, OPA officials have revealed...

...Towel supplies will be about 30 per cent of prewar consumption, underwear supplies about 60-65 per cent of the prewar level, and men's woolens about 70 -per cent of this level...

...The idea is simple...

...Whether vitamins in pill form, beyond those that an average person consumes in three meals a day, give you extra health insurance, vitality, or endurance has been hotly argued...

...Results of several years of research by Federal and state experiment stations are ready for the public, he says, and a vitamin rating for a vegetable will be something like an octane number to a brand of gasoline—"a more or less definite-indication of the amount of vital pep and punch you have a right to expect from it...

...Choices are limited,, but many retail stores still have some rug supplies...

...Two varieties of tomatoes may differ greatly in vitamin content...

...Racketeer-type practices have been appalling,' Thomas I. Emerson, OPA enforcement chief declared last week in announcing that OPA field officers had been instructed to crack down on racketeers...

...While no one would question the employment of vitamin therapy in frank deficiency diseases or even in suspected deficiency states, still one wonders if the indiscriminate use of vitamins, sold over the counter to people who have no obvious disease, is justified...

...At the present rate...

...At a Federal laboratory in Charleston, S. C, Dr...

...At the moment the racket in cigarettes is probably the most flagrant, with many smokers wondering what happens to cigarettes when they leave the wholesalers...

...per cent of the book marches...

...Incidentally, the Department of Agriculture has just issued a new pamphlet, Carpet and Rug Repair, Farmers' Bulletin 1960, available free from the Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. C. Business Week reports that shortages in rayon hosiery and women's slips are considered acute, and Bread & Butter predicts that dry goods shortages "are apparently going to get much worse in the next couple of months...

...Frank Thone, biology editor of Seience Service...

...It has been implied that, even when no demonstrable deficiency exists, one's sense of well-being and ability to perform work can be improved greatly by the addition of vitamins to the diet...

...David Cayer made the study at the request of the Army...

...ton yarn for backing and has only a three months supply of carpet wool—even if shipping were available, it would take three to five months to bring in supplies...

...They are only beginnings, but they are very widespread and highly promising beginnings...

...There are plenty of Kitchen matches—"saws"—which the Army doesn't want because of their bulk...

...It took seven months for my order for a plain cotton rug to be filled...

...Department Of This And That Safety matches are hard to get because the Army wants 90 per cent of the putput of the penny box safety matches and 25...

...of production, the civilian supply of book and .penny...

...No Benefit From Extra Vitamins...

...box matches is about 50 per cent of pre-war days...

...As pointed out by the council on food and nutrition and on industrial health (of the American Medical Association) there is at present no conclusive evidence to substantiate this point of view...

...Also, the industry is short of cot...

...Thone calls these "random samples of the work that is being done all over the country, aimed at the raising of the vitamin ratings of vegetables...

...R. J. Garber of the Department of Agriculture recently described a: new hybrid sweet potato developed in Louisiana that is richer in carotene than either of its parents...

...So you can, it looks to me, stay well without extra vitamins—and save money too...

...B, L. Wade and his staff have produced a new variety of cabbage and one of snap beans that are exceptionally high in vitamin C. Dr...

...From Chicago come stories of street peddlers hawking cigarettes for 35 and 40 cents a package and of cigarette punchboard clubs, where a package costs about 33 cents...

...The most recent medical report I've seen presents some very effective evidence on the side of those of us who argue that supplementary vitamins aren't necessary or don't aid a normally healthy person...

...In some cities cigarettes have gone almost completely underground...

...After a month's experiment on 200 people, physicians at the Duke University school of medicine concluded that the "administration of vitamin supplements to a group of apparently normal persons, consuming the usual American diet, had no demonstrable beneficial effect...

...Some i,500 meat and poultry dealers in Philadelphia have announced that they will sell no turkeys for the holidays because they "don't want black market business...

...With the flow of cigarettes into regular trade channels diminishing, sales in some places are actually on the old bootleg 'Ask-for-Joe'basis...

...So far we have been conditioned to favoring and buying the most attractive breed of any vegetable, but from now on We may be educated to buy for nutrition rather than appearance...

...Something New Will Be Added Vitamin ratings of vegetables will be added to seed catalogs, if not in 1945 then in a year or two, predicts Dr...

...It's unlikely that there will be a rapid reconversion in the rug industry after Germany falls, because duck cloth will still be needed in the Pacific...

...Here are a few excerpts from their report: "At the- present time the use of vitamins is widespread throughout the country, not only in the treatment of disease, but also by apparently normal persons...

...Julian M. Ruffin and Dr...

...OPA has been swamped with complaints of black market operations in turkeys, sugar, and other scarce items as well as cigarettes...

...Dr...