Surplus War Property Mess Needs Central Authority
Washington reports say surplus war property handling is a chaotic mix of eight agencies at 100 sites. Veterans face delays and rising prices as a unified War Assets corporation and centralized Surplus Property administration are urged to end the red tape and distribute property fairly.
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Warkington
Eye St
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
U. S. Maritime Commission
State Department
Department of Agriculture
Food and Agricultural Products
Federal Works Administration
Federal Housing Authority
Department of the Interior
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Surplus Property Administration
W. Stuart Symington
War Assets Corp
Truman
War Assets Corporation
Edmund B. Gregory
Army
Denuarz
Gregory
Symington
Navy
Philadelphia
CPA
War Plants Corporation
RFC Disposal Agency
Department of Commerce
Navy Material Redistribution Office
RFC
Nuernberg Mayor Sees Postwar Recovery Through Craft Exports
In Nuernberg amid wartime destruction Mayor Hans Ziegler explains plans to rebuild the city by restoring its reputation for high quality crafts and exports. He notes tax hikes, power strain, and labor losses from the military tribunal, but emphasizes returning to world markets and industrial self-sufficiency with food imports secured for now.
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WNU Service
Eye Street
N. W
Washington D. DC
Nuernberg
Germany
Nuernberg Court House
Hans Ziegler
London
Ziegler
International Military Tribunal
Nuernbergers
Git
America
Barbs by Baukhag in Nuernberg Courthouse Gaffe
The narrator recalls an embarrassing moment in Nuernberg when a courthouse guard told him to quiet down during a broadcast. He notes his artillery commission from outshooting horses and cites Churchill’s epigram. The piece mentions Churchill’s Florida vacation plans and a jab at the Florida chamber of commerce. A remark about Europe’s value and a wristwatch is also included.
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Nuernberg
Czar Petrillo
Norman Corwin
Miami Beach
Parade and Show Biz Vignette Season in Wartime Bliss
A collage of wartime society notes features General Hap Arnold and Brigadier Carlos Romulo in social scenes, performers Eddie Cantor and Broadway writers in hospital outreach, and a portrait of friendship, honor, and political banter. It includes Cantor entertaining veterans in Chelsea Naval Hospital, Romulo and family entering the Waldorf, and a satirical stage segment about votes and freedom led by Spike and Mary as nuclear yearnings mix with public travel woes and lingering weather.
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Totun
Hap Arnold
Lota
Maj
W. Rockefeller
Peggy Joyce
Estelle Taylor
G.I
Tokyo
U. S
Eddie Cantor
Boston
Nellie Bly
Chelsea Naval Hospital
Cantor
Thelma Carpenter
Leonard Sues
Ben Walker
Eddie
Jolson
Miami Boss Warns Visitors About Raids and Laughing Spasms
The Miami boss Curry warns visitors of raids on gelfing spots, a bid to deter crime. A Newspaper Guild resolution bars Fiorello from costuming unless he apologizes to newsmen for past insults. A new Super-Chief Diesel is under construction and will reach 150 miles per hour. Ezra Pound, advocate of Mussolini, has been confined to a booby hatch.
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Miami
Curry
Fiorello
Diesel
Ezra Pound
Mussolini
Washington gossip chronicles postwar power shuffles
Busy Tom Corcoran promotes law partner D Worth Clark as potential interior secretary to replace Harold Ickes. Truman hints at leadership scrutiny while Ed Flynn faces tough Democratic national committee prospects. Sol Bloom's UNRRA maneuver backfires. Byrnes eyes Ken Galbraith for Germany post. Moscow pact sparks cabinet tensions as MacArthur praised amid Japan postwar rebuild.
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Dome
Washington
Tom Corcoran
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Harold Ickes
Interior
Clark
Truman
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
United States
Bronx
Ed Flynn
FDR
James Roe
Queens County
LaGuardia
Flynn
New York
Feld
Moscow
Kremlin
Vatican
Cordell Hull
Sumner Welles
Wellesian
Reiners
Pearl Harbor
Gerald Winrod
the Defender
North Green Street
Broadview Street
Wichita, Kans
India
U.S. Army
G.ls
Byrnes
Ken Galbraith
OPA
Fortune Magazine
Germany
Anglo-American Palestine Commission
Jimmy Dunn
London
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Italy
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota
Havenner
California
U.S
Pacific Islands
Household Tips and Quick Repairs From an Old Page
A compact collection of home hints covers cleaning paint from clothing with turpentine and ammonia, drying wool garments on a hanger, a tiny pipe hole to drain water after pumping, mending a Turkish towel with net, and making a tomato meat sauce over spaghetti with ground meat, green pepper, onion, and cheese.
Quiz show trivia questions for audience fun
The round opens with six questions. First asks which three animals besides the elephant yield ivory. The second notes the pineapple is not a pine or apple and asks its true identity. The third seeks the heat of an incendiary bomb. The fourth asks the length of Broadway in New York as the world’s longest street. The fifth identifies the sweet potato’s flower family. The final question asks after whom Pennsylvania was named.
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Broadway
New York
Pennsylvania
William Penn
The Answers Quiz Item list and clues
A compact set of answers lists items including Walrus hippopotamus narwhale and several clues. It mentions a berry and extreme temperatures around five thousand degrees Fahrenheit though notes changes to three thousand. A long span is about 150 miles and a plant named morning glory appears with a familial reference to Admiral Penn.
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Admiral Penn
Make Cough Syrup at Home Quick Relief Ad
A home cough syrup guide promises fast relief with simple ingredients. Mix two cups sugar with one cup water, no cooking, then add 244 ounces of Pinex. Fill a pint bottle, use corn syrup or honey if preferred, and enjoy a soothing syrup that eases phlegm and helps breathing. Money back if not pleased.
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Walter Shead
Washington Digest
Barden
Germehy
Ruhr
Saar
Europe
Berlin
American Food and Agriculture Administration
Lijebeck
Altstadt
Coventry
Baukhag
Churchill
Atlea Soit
Mrs. Churchill
Florida
Mr. Truman
Florida Chamber of Commerce
Indie
Harold Stassen
Spike
Mary
Republican Hope
Soldier
Miami-N. Y
Sol Bloom
Egypt
House Rules Committee
UNRRA
Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rules Committee
Charles Eaton
New Jersey
Foreign Affairs Committee
Adolph Sabath
Illinois
Clarence Brown
Ohio
Brown
Sol
Rule
Merry-Go-Round
Maury Maverick
Far East
General MacArthur
Japan
G.I. Joes
Korea
Sewing Circle
Needlecraft
Allingaftern
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Qusehold Zo Iintless
Fleischmann
Sloan
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