30 Mar 1944
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
1
A column reviews daytime soap listening and radio humor with quotes from a medico on health risks to fans. It catalogues Marion Coveridge and NBC Sunday agents, plus sketches Midtown Vignette and The Magia Lanterns Hollywood pieces, ending with a Barrymore quip about a stage incident.
The War Food Administration reports U S vegetable seed harvests reached record levels through 1943 and 1944 prospects, with 423 thousand acres planted and broccoli and cabbage yields falling while Brussels sprouts and mustard surged. Seed exports to Allies and occupied areas total about 48 percent of allocations, with a large contingency reserve.
Unusually heavy Midwest demand and wet weather cut the 1943 Blue Grass crop to 1,516,000 bushels, about one third of 1942. Nebraska and North Dakota fell short, while Sudan grass seed gains priority for Northern Plains and Corn Belt as wells dry and imports rise in 1944.
The piece reports Charlie Wilson visiting the President for over two hours, speculation that he was being evaluated as a potential Republican running mate, and notes on ordnance work at Anzio led by Maj. Gen. Levin Campbell. It also covers odd Argyll Rossiter episode, Italy labor draft warnings, and Harold Hopper urging cinema industry postwar propaganda.
An American go getter asks a western Indian chief why he does not work. The chief questions the idea of earning, saving, and a bank account, then notes he is not working now and suggests contentment may lie in retirement.
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