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we have known before and, with it, the introduction of hun- 

 dreds of new products along the lines already suggested and 

 many others too. Giant strides in agriculture are being ush- 

 ered in with the stimulus of the serious food shortages. Every 

 large food manufacturer has new foods and new food prod- 

 ucts to introduce to the public at the close of the war. Many 

 of these products were developed for use by the armed forces 

 and offer new taste thrills as well as high nutritive values. 

 Others came about through laboratory research undertaken 

 during the food crisis. 



The textile field has likewise benefited by the stimulus of 

 wartime exigencies. We shall see a great variety of beautiful 

 new fabrics with finer wearing qualities at lower prices as 

 soon as the resumption of the manufacture of consumer goods 

 is permissible on a peacetime basis. Research carried out by 

 manufacturers and by government technicians in order to 

 find ways and means of supplying the armed forces with a 

 great number of durable fabrics suitable for different climates, 

 and for use under varying conditions, resulted in new tech- 

 niques and processes whereby magnificent fabrics can be pro- 

 duced for a fraction of their former cost. 



A New Era of Individualism 



While discussions on the pros and cons of collectivism and 

 individualism have been under way during recent years, our 

 engineers and inventors have been busy with blueprints for 

 new machines and devices more certain to change the course 

 of our destiny than all of the conversations of the past one 

 hundred years. Nearly every large aircraft company in the 

 United States has blueprints on hand for giant air liners, some 

 of them three-decker types with promenade decks, lounge 

 and dining rooms, and accommodations for about two hun- 

 dred people planes for commuter service to and from New 



