Committees for Economic Development Plan to Maintain Employment
The Committee for Economic Development CED promotes local postwar planning across the United States to prevent demobilization shocks. Communities large and small organize plans with surveys of hiring, spending, housing, and potential new industries to sustain employment, emphasizing private enterprise and efficient reconversion.
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AL Jedlicka
Union
United States
Committee For Economic Development
America
CED
CCED
Tiative
South Dakota
Hermann C. Wehmann
Ninth
Federal Reserve District
Weymann
Pasiblasnes
Wehr
Albert Lea
Freeborn
Minnesota
Wehmann
Fairleigh Dickinson Junior College
Bergen County, N. J
Vitamins overhyped says Chicago AMA president
A Chicago doctor and new American Medical Association president criticizes excessive vitamin claims. He warns that ads promise cures for many ailments, from hair loss to mood and energy, while some products hype vitamin content. The piece notes a skeptical entrepreneur anecdote about a false vitamin claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Medical Association
America
Medico
Leaders study map of 1933 CED committees nationwide
C. Scott Fletcher, director of CED field development division, Paul G. Hoffman of Studebaker, and William Benton as vice chairman examine a map showing 1,933 CED committees across 48 states. The group targets postwar production 0 to 45 percent above 1940 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Committee For Economic Development
C. Scott ‘Fietcher
CED
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corporation
William Benton
Mrs Dewey’s Plain Life in White House Ambition
A fragmentary item relays Mrs. Dewey’s stance on preferred minimal public involvement if she ever held the White House, favoring a simple life with Thomas handling publicity and decisions. It contrasts with a political independence tone and then shifts to tech remarks by Dr Charles Kettering about rocket planes and Nazi reactions.
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White House
Thomas
Frugal Household Hacks From An Earlier Era
A quirky set of domestic tips describes saving cookies by adding jam to dough, spraying or sprinkling starch on clothing, rolling items from the line, and using sawdust in a hen nest. It also notes repurposing an old clock in a sick room to cue medicine times.
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Bergen County
N. J
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