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The article focuses on the availability of self-hardening glues for wood-to-wood joints, hot-press melamine glues and other synthetic adhesives produced in Germany to U.S. industry in 1946, based on the Department of Commerce report PB-27072.

A correction to the article regarding the war's impact on watch and clock manufacturers that was published in the April 4, 1942 edition, is presented.

The article focuses on retail shoe merchant Frank Melville Jr. and his ideas in retail merchandising. Topics discussed include his previous jobs such as copying legal documents at his barrister uncle's office, the recognition of shoe making as an honorable and profitable trade and his development of shoe business on a basis of honest dealing. Also mentioned is his purpose of marketing quality shoes at the lowest possible price.

The article reports that Eaton Mfg. Co. will use 200,000 carbide tools and dies, for making automotive and aircraft parts for its own company, at its newly created Powered Metals Division. It states that by taking such a step, Eaton will save 250,000 dollars a year in cash, and will use tools more efficiently. It mentions that Saginaw plant draws 850,000 to 1 million tappet bodies from one of its cold header dies, and Massillon plant draws around 1.5 million washers from 425,000 pounds of steel.

The article discusses the importance of hard carbides in the metal industry in the U.S. According to the Army Air Forces (AAF), carbide cutting tools have accelerated the production of gears and crankcases for aircraft engines to three times. It highlights the historical background on the development of carbides wherein General Electric Co. revolutionized the use of carbide in 1928.