Amarillo Globe News notes postwar shopping droughts and promises
In a reflective Amarillo Globe News piece the editors discuss wartime shortages easing after the first of the year. Clerks warn shoppers that stock may finally improve next week as peacetime goods drift into stores, reshaping holidays and budgets.
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Recipient of a shoddy deal the B bag
Bill Cunningham writes of Lt Jack H Taylor of Hollywood California who served as a Navy secret agent in World War II. He details his capture by the Gestapo in Vienna and imprisonment at Mauthausen before liberation on the war's last day. The piece includes a reader letter from Kitoyoshi Japan about occupation hardships and a critical note on U S policy toward China and Chiang Kai-shek.
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Hoover Privacy Attacked by False Marriage Rumors
George E. Sokolsky denounces false gossip about Herbert Hoover and a supposed impending marriage. He urges respect for Hoover as a former president and Quaker, condemning prying and public invasion of private life as indecent and boorish.
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Platform debate fails to electrify voters in Chicago
Paul Mallon argues the Republican push for a flashy national policy will not change outcomes. He notes a new permanent platform committee favors big states and publicity, while real differences with Truman remain in votes and record.
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Crosswo D Puzzle and Horizon Clues Fragment
A fragmented crossword and vertical hints list with multiple incomplete clues. The puzzle shows partial entries for several across and down words including references to Finnish statesman music church and science items, with several missing letters and broken terms.
Polk Street Professor's Simple Needs
A humorous list from a Polk Street professor suggests practical, everyday inventions. He urges scientists to focus on simple improvements like lukewarm coffee, rubber fenders, reinforced toothpaste tubes, non jet juice oranges, cold friendly butter, non brittle toast, Sunday breakable shoelaces, stable ice cream straws with fluid drive, alarm stove attachments, and non disintegrating cream puffs.
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