Business: Facts, Figures

> The Government is planning a nationwide campaign to persuade housewives to save fat—pan drippings, meat trimmings and all—sell it to local butchers (at perhaps 5¢ a lb.). Object: glycerin, a byproduct of soap, which is made from fat.

> The Census Bureau totted up U.S.Latin American trade for 1941, discovered an overall import balance of $106,072,000 in trade with Latin America. (Most dollar-glutted was Argentina, with $57,371,000 of excess exports. A close second was sugar-rich Cuba, with $55,301,000.) But eight Latin American countries were not able to balance their trade with...

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