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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
6
Ceditor note states opinions are those of Western Newspaper Union analysts and not necessarily the hosting newspaper. Released by Western Newspaper Union.
U S forces claim control over the Gilbert islands after major landings on Makin Tarawa and Apamama with about 6000 Japanese dead. American airmen also sink two Japanese destroyers and damage others near Bougainville while ground operations expand the base with heavy artillery and air bombardment.
The article notes reduced farm machinery types next year due to material gains, while repair parts remain unrestricted. It cites wage concerns under the War Labor Board, rising living costs, and growing female labor participation. Germany, Italy, and turkey movements feature amid Allied pressure, with U.S. plans for a world bank backed by $700 million to $1.4 billion, aiding postwar credits and loan guarantees.
A new wireless lighting type drew current from a high frequency radio beam in a New York demonstration. Experts called it the lighting of the future. Radiant heat lamps that could cook food and a mercury vapor lamp using 10,000 watts and emitting light one fifth as bright as the sun were also shown.
A House bill aims to prohibit subsidies that lower or stabilize retail food prices and limit use to stimulating agricultural production. The administration says subsidies save consumers, but House opponents call them inflationary and add to national debt. The bill would keep subsidies only for vegetable oils and seeds, extend the Commodity Credit Corporation to mid 1945, and allow rediscounting at a loss for perishable fruits and vegetables.
A house bill would raise 2 percent in new taxes totaling about 2 percent of revenue, far below the 1032 billion dollars urged by Treasury Secretary Morgen thau. The largest new revenue sources would be taxes on beer liquor jewelry luggage bulbs cosmetics and on services such as telephones telegraphs amusements transportation and club dues. Income tax adjustments would add substantial revenue about 600 million from business levies. Local postal rates would rise to three cents and money order and special delivery charges would increase.
Henry J. Kaiser told the New York Economic Club that his shipyards have launched 1,087 vessels since January 1 1941. Among them 985 Liberty ships 40 tank landing ships 40 fast tankers and 12 aircraft carriers. He noted two or three troop transports with seven decks can carry 4 000 passengers.
United States Britain China and Russia back a Moscow pact to run UN relief and rehabilitation operations and allocate raw materials to prewar industrial nations. Secretary Wickard warns rationing may intensify after the war and urges returning all government tillable land to farming by sale or lease.
Cherie Nichols surveys fashion trimming trends with tassels and bows shaping hats, belts, dresses, and gloves. Long tassels fringe crowns and lapels while large satin bows frame necklines and belts.
Mittens shift from mere protection to style with white yarn mittens featuring flags or U S A initials in red white and blue. Girls personalize plain white knits with tiny flags and floral embroidery. String mittens offer easy laundering while fluff fleece mittens become schoolgirl favorites.
The display features a cocoa colored ostrich feather stole about 18 inches wide and 2% yards long with uncurled feathers on a crepe band. A matching tiny hat is made entirely of the same colored ostrich feathers, proposed as ideal with black, burgundy, navy, or deep brown attire.
New Idlewild will be built on the Jamaica Bay shore in Queens and be five times larger than the current municipal airfield. The plan includes four square miles of area, 13 miles of runways, 5 miles of taxiways and 2 miles of seaplane landing space.
Since 1940 the National Inventors council has received 160000 war inventions. About 50 have been adopted and are in production while more than a thousand others are undergoing testing.
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