CIVILIAN SUPPLY,AVIATION,RENEGOTIATION: For Babies Only

CIVILIAN SUPPLY

For the nation's bumper crop of babies, the wise men of WPB had good tidings. Since last April, when a limitation was placed on the use of steel in infant vehicles, most babies have had to bump along in rickety wooden carriages, strollers, walkers and pushcarts. Last week, lifting this particular restriction, WPB hoped to allot enough metal to permit the manufacture of some 700,000 prewar model carriages this year. (Anticipated births: 2,700,000.)

But this boon to babies did not mean that their parents would shortly be wallowing in bobby pins, pot...

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