Price cuts and rising costs ripple through 1948 retail scene
Washington reports a one tenth of one percent rise in the cost of living index from mid October to mid November while retailers push year end sales. Sears Roebuck cuts prices up to 26 percent on many items and Inland Steel has not yet set its price increases. Olds Mobile trims its 8 model by at least 65 dollars as stores in Des Moines slash women’s clothing and shoes 33 to 50 percent amid a weak Christmas market.
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Sears, Roebuck and Company
Cate~ Joyne
Dawn
Mery Ward and
Guide Inter Catalogue
Rednctiers
Crisco
Crisco Twa
Ick. Hes
Dynafron
Oldsobile
Inland ‘Steel Company
Cat
Washington
Labor Department
Des Moines
Tin Prices Drop But Canned Food Unchanged
Washington reports tin world price fell from 107 to 78 cents a pound yet canned food prices likely unchanged. Can manufacturers cut tin plate by about 3.50 a ton, base box prices range 58 35 to 7.50, claiming an average saving of 15 cents per base box.
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Washington
Eel
Livia DeHavilland Gains Award for Heiress Role
The veritics named Livia DeHavilland the award winner for her performance in The Heiress last year. Critics also voted Broderick Crawford best actor of the year for All the King’s Men.
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Veritics
Broderick ‘Crawford
Wheat Acreage In Texas To Drop 19 Percent In 1950
In Austen Texas on December 23 1950 the USDA forecast Texas wheat acreage for 1950 will fall about 19 percent from 1949 level. Estimated seedings drop to 7 697 000 acres from 18 235 000 acres for harvest, yet the 1950 crop should exceed the 1938 47 average by about 21 percent due to acreage allotments shaping seedings.
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Austen
Texas
United States Department of Ag_riculture
USDA
Weather Proverbs Proved True More Often Than Not
New York reports that ancient weather proverbs many dating to biblical times show greater truth than false in predicting weather. Dr. Vaden W. Miles of Warner University Detroit presented to the AAAS that 333 proverbs were studied, with about eight or five thousand? true by scientific principles, noting several examples such as mackerel skies, red sunset, and ring around the moon. The findings also mark some proverbs as unsupported, including north wind brings snow and Swithin's Day rain claims.
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New York
Vaden
Miles
Warner University
Detroit
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Stuffed Deer Deludes Fagle Eyed Archers
RATNELANDER Wis Dec 29 A battered bullet pierced stuffed deer lures hunters again in Oneida County. Last year pranksters placed a buck and horns were shot off. this season the same dummy reappeared as a doe with three arrows removed in a few days.
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Ratnelander
Wis
Wisconsin
Oneida County
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