Texas Ranches Market 80 577 Carloads Live Stock
Texas ranches marketed 80 577 carloads of livestock in 1940 per University of Texas Bureau of Business Research estimates. Total shipments were 94 percent below 1939, with cattle at 47 125 cars down 14.4 percent, calves 13 672 cars down 10 percent, hogs 8 334 cars down 1.5 percent. December shipments totaled 4 296 cars, 5.5 percent fewer than December 1939.
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Texas Ranches
Austin
Texas _ranches
University of Texas Bureau of Business
Old Army Blankets Return to England for Battle of Britain
Middletown residents in Bundles for Britain divert two World War II blankets into sleeping bags for six bombed children in Britain. Mrs Hicks and local volunteers convert each blanket into three bags to aid air raid shelter comfort amid ongoing wartime relief efforts. Another note mentions a $100 check from Clovis to E G Stokes in Water Valley for goods sold four decades ago, while hog movement shows a 27.8 percent gain and the overall motion slumps 33.3 percent.
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British Isles
England
Britain
Middletown
N. x
BEF
William J. Hicks
E. G. Stokes
Water Valley
Clovis
N. M
War effort tempo drives industries to peak capacity
The piece notes aircraft, shipbuilding and machine tool sectors running at or near wartime pace with large backlogs and vast 1941 projections. It questions skilled labor, power, and training needs while highlighting opportunities for workers to join the national defense push. tenor Richard Crooks to sing in El Paso February 21 as part of a community concert series with guest cards via Mrs. Hallett Johnson. Arizona population listed at 51,800. Ottawa wrestler Albert Carmanico claims a doughnut-eating record of 104 in 68 minutes. A farmer near Yankton uses a plane to ship produce to market.
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Inpur
Acity
Richard Crooks
Metropolitan Opera Company
el Paso
Liberty Hall
El Paso Scrip Offer Draws 25 Percent Discount Deal
A notice promotes buying scrip from The Avalanche to save money with a 25 percent discount. It mentions El Paso and urges workers in the industry to consider the offer amid a statement about injuries in the ir industry at a rate of one in 2,078 work years.
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el Paso
Avalanche
Aval Iyuries
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