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-c- 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 the U.S. Worst off: Mexico, with an import balance of $60,615,000.

> Unhappy members of the $60,000,000 U.S. brush industry heard a WPB-man liken them to the quick & the dead: "We thought we could supply you with nylon. . . . Three days later . . . there was no supply for us. There isn't a substitute material that we know of that that cannot happen to."

> Minor defense irony: beer and liquor trucks (because they deliver finished products from wholesaler to retailer) are in line for new tires, home delivery milk trucks are not (though milk deliveries to retailers are).

> WPB hinted that, to solve transportation problems, cut down sugar demand, alcohol-distilling equipment from California's wineries might be moved to the Midwest, used to produce grain alcohol.

> WPB ordered 4,000 manufacturers of metal beds, bed springs and mattresses to cut their use of iron and steel 15 to 60% (depending upon the product and the size of the manufacturer).

> The long-ailing port of Boston will lose this week some of the best business it has had in years. For some months Boston has been the jumping-off point for Lend-Lease cargoes bound for Russia. But, because Boston has not been able to handle loadings speedily enough, shipments from now on will be made mainly from another East Coast port.

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