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New facets in U.S. wartime living:

Only 600,000 Pairs. In putting ceilings (69-c- to $1.65) on women's silk hose last week, OPA Chief Leon Henderson gave away a secret, started another hoarding rush. On manufacturers' and merchants' shelves only some 600,000 pairs of silk hose are left. Women had thought there were many more.

Help Wanted. To hire scarce women workers before the Christmas buying rush reaches its peak, Chicago mail-order firms, chain department stores and State Street emporiums competed with each other in alluring help wanted ads. Promised in some: daily siestas, convenient transportation, club rooms, discounts on merchandise, library on premises, home atmosphere, air-conditioned offices, low-cost coffee shops.

Let's Ask a Bride. Down to the Washington, D.C. marriage license bureau went WPB's Office of Civilian Supply. Purpose: To use prospective brides and grooms as guinea pigs, find out what kind of furniture they would like to have in their new homes, so future limitation restrictions can be drawn up to meet as many demands as possible of the nation's heaviest furniture buyers.

Whipped Cream. U.S. citizens will get no more sundaes, pies or cakes topped with blobs of whipped cream. To save a billion quarts of milk needed more for butter, cheese and export in dried forms, WPB ordered all sales of heavy cream stopped last week.

Coffee Hijack. A truck carrying 24,056 Ib. of A. & P. coffee from a New York warehouse to Philadelphia stores was hijacked and its contents stolen when its driver stopped at a Jersey City bean wagon for a cup of coffee.

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