Facts, Figures

> National Association of Manufacturers announced a 200-man War Committee to siphon more & faster production from its 8,000 members (who hold 80% of all war contracts) and to help Don Nelson find and use their best industrial talent.* To head its steering committee, N.A.M. selected Malcolm Muir, publisher of Newsweek.

> Packard became the first U.S. automobile manufacturer to report more employes (17,904) in its war-converted plants than at its peacetime peak (15,542 in 1937). Among the new men: 96 former Packard distributors, dealers and salesmen.

> Though Jesse Jones admitted having trouble getting his 400,000 tons of synthetic rubber under contract, WPB's Bill Batt told a Senate committee that the new goal is 600,000 tons.

> WPB gave beekeepers A-3 priorities on materials for all production of honey up to their 1940 level, tin to pack as much honey (in 5-lb. or bigger containers) as they could turn out.

> Chlorine, already under complete allocation, was put under still more drastic restrictions. Its use is now prohibited for bleaching food stuffs, making cosmetics, disinfecting private swimming pools. Textile bleachers can use only 50% of the chlorine they used last year; laundries only 10%. Only civilian uses still fully protected: sewage disposal, disinfecting public water supplies.

> The London Economist reported that Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie was producing a new artificial fiber, Perlon-Silk, claimed to be the equal of Du Font's nylon.

*N.A.M. also surveyed itself, described its "typical member." He is small-town-born, pushing 60, college-educated (Yale), lives in New York or Pennsylvania, has worked for his company for over 20 years. After some poring over fullfaces and profiles, N.A.M. abandoned plans for a composite photograph of him.

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