Gossip Friday: Plenty of Nails

From November 1941:

Carole Lombard knows that Clark Gable is always building something on their valley ranch so about a month ago she said to Clark: “You better buy plenty of nails because they’re going to be difficult to get after a while.” Gable laughed, but Carole went out and bought 2,000 pounds of nails at 7 cents a pound. Lombard was right. There is now a shortage of nails, and practically every hardware store in town is phoning Clark Gable wanting to buy nails from him at 17 cents a pound.