Many a person in the U.S. stepped into a bookstore last week to buy a Bible, was surprised to find he could not buy one.
Despite the fact that Bible publishers have upped their output (the American Bible Society last year printed 5,371,293 Bibles for U.S. readers, a 21% increase over 1940), men & women in the armed forces and civilians at home have snapped up Bibles faster than they have come from the presses.
There are also manufacturing difficulties. Leather is scarce (some types cannot be got at all), paper is not too plentiful. But the big snag is the shortage...
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