Patterns

"Patch and pray" will be compulsory for industry as well as for U.S. housewives, said William L. Batt, chief of the requirements committee of WPB last week. Some patterns of U.S. living now in the making:

Long Grass. After June 30, lawn mower production must stop.

Night Workers. Hartford, Conn, and Los Angeles have both ordered special flags for night war workers' homes. The flags, hung outside homes in the daytime, are supposed to insure traffic quiet for sleeping workers of the "MacArthur Shift."

Stables. St. Louis' Board of Aldermen is pondering a bill...

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