Smooth Flow

From Washington last week leaked out a significant bit of good tidings for U.S. civilians. WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements has quietly made a deal with the Army to borrow from its vast supplies to ease any sudden civilian goods shortage.

Latest example of the deal's workings is blue denim. Because of the great quantity of tough cheap blue denim needed to outfit war workers, many a U.S. store shelf has been swept bare. But the Army had six months' supply on hand.

So OCR borrowed enough to ease the civilian shortage, will pay back the yardage from its own allotment. In cases in which the Army has no such surplus OCR will borrow plant output, turn over to the Army OCR's allotment of output later.

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