Humorous Clips and Gossip From The Daily World
A collection of light notes and quips from the era, including jokes about Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin, theater anecdotes featuring Ethel Barrymore and George Luddy, mispunctuation gibes at the London Daily Mail, a Texan and a Brit exchange about trains, and sidelights on Margalo and Alex Wolfhcott with sharp wits about critics and reporters.
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Roosevelt
Churchil
Stalin
Theater Guild
Ethel Barrymore
Winston Churchill
Guild
Theresa Belburn
Mello
Surplus War Goods To Be Sold By Treasury Plan
The United States will offer about 4.5 billion dollars in surplus war goods for sale during the coming year through the Treasury procurement division, with total potential value near 102 billion dollars across multiple agencies. Farmers may gain some access via auctions and preferred buying. dealers in 15,000 towns will play a key role in distributing the variety from furniture to ships and farm equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter A. Shead
Washington
Western
Union
D. C
United States Treasury
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
War Food Administration
Marittime Commission
Army and Navy
Federal Housing Administration
Sears, Roebick & Company
Treasury Procurement
Defense Plant Corporation
RFC
Boston
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
New York
Empire State Building
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
OPA
Air Corps
Farm Transportation Committee
WPB
PAW
ODT
Treasury Procurement Division
Surplus Planes Offered to Public by Civil Aviation Agency
The Civil Aeronautics Administration opens auctions for about a million surplus airplanes previously used by training centers and civilian flight schools. About 50 planes per regional office are sold weekly through competitive bidding, with invitations listing each aircraft type mailed upon request.
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United States
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Plans for Pacific War II keeps factories running
Washington reports a top army plan to avoid broad cutbacks after Germany’s defeat. Instead, war production stays high with limited item reductions until Japan falls, speeding Pacific victory and potentially raising 1945 schedules by about a billion dollars. MacArthur and Marines clash tale follows, plus insurance lobby tensions and Pan American notes.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Army
WPB
Higwigs
Japan
Pacific
War Department
Atlantic
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Hungary
London Daily Mall
King of England
London
Texas
England
George Luddy
Manila
Strer
de Valera
Eire
Margate Gillmore
Margalo
Carolyn Burke
Carolyn
Alex Woollcott
Rascos
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Denver
Colorado
New Mexico
Utah
Wyoming
San Francisco
van Ness Avenue
Arizona
California
Nevada
Seattle
Fifth Avenue
Idaho
Oregon
Montana
War Properties Board
MacArthur
General MacArthur
U. S Navy
U.S. Marines
Land Army of the Navy
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Insurance
Insurance Loby
White House
Senate
House
Congress
O'Mahoney
Franco
Hitler
Lithuania
Mexico City
Leo
U.S
Bfgoodrich
ALOE
Wah
Post
Ilyit
Lydia
Pinkham
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