Facts & Figures

Refrigerators. The War Production Board handed out priorities to nine companies to make 227,709 refrigerators, 155,797 washing machines, in the third quarter of this year. WPB expects to grant more priorities in the next Jew weeks to bring total third-quarter production of refrigerators to 265,000, total washing machines to 350,000. The price of the refrigerators, said WPB, will be "equal to or lower than" the average prewar levels.

Since refrigerator sales were 3,552,000 in 1941, the new output will not be so large that rationing can be lifted until the beginning of 1946.

Mystery. The War Manpower Com mission had expected that, in the three months following V-E day, 2,100,000 munitions workers alone would be laid off. Since V-E day only 330,000 workers have filed for unemployment compensation in the U.S., about one-third of the number expected. Probable explanations of the mystery: 1) many of those laid off are getting other jobs promptly; 2) some women war workers are going back to their homes; 3) men who have worked continuously for three years do not want new jobs right away.

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