A wahoo bird, according to popular folklore, flies in ever decreasing circles until it swallows itself in utter confusion. Recently, many a businessman has thought that the nation's mobilizers were learning from the wahoo. Last week there was pretty convincing evidence from Washington that they were right.
¶ NPA, which has been diligently cutting down on civilian use of copper and aluminum, suddenly handed out 27,500 additional tons of the metals to civilian-goods manufacturers. The military, NPA had discovered, could not use the metals.
¶ Automakers, who only a few weeks ago were told that they would get enough metals...