A Bill of Importance to Farmers Debated in House
A long feature argues for H.R. 4591 by August H. Andersen to discover breed and test crops for industry and replace surpluses, proposing state university research to create markets and steady farm revenue, while reducing dependence on Washington. It cites free competition as key to American wealth and warns against piecemeal inflation controls. It also notes farmers supplying aviation interest and calls for shared sacrifice in defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
August H. Andersen
Minnesota
Congress
Government Doles
Washington
Congressman Andersen
Atlantic
America
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
Stettinius
United States Steel Corporation
Gasless Sundays and wartime oil reforms debated
The piece surveys potential oil industry reforms under Ickes to reduce tanker fragmentation and concentrate high octane gasoline output. It notes anti trust limits, Navy morale links, and Allied shipping secrecy, with brief asides on public figures and federal administrators shaping wartime policy and electrification projects.
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Washington, D. C
National Oil
Ickes
Gulf of Mexico
Charleston
Norfolk
Baltimore
United States
LaGuardia
Summer Play Clothes Fabric News From Fashion Experts
Cherie Nicholas reports on a summer play clothes boom with fabrics that wash and wear well. Denim rises to chic status with yellow denim slacks and calico prints, while white rayon pique sharkskin bets on tennis frocks and white suits. The feature highlights practical sewing tips, mother and daughter outfits, and a tennis dress designed by Alice Marble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bea
Lorm
Alice Marble
Western Newspaper Union
Chintz Housecoat Seizes Spotlight This Season
Cotton fabrics dominate the wardrobe scene as a new high in fashion. The text celebrates cotton chintz for its beauty and versatility, noting moss rose prints and a graduated border that enhances shoulders, waist, and skirt for festive or everyday wear.
Non Crushing Cotton Fabric Promises Easy Wear
In vacation days of outdoor activity, nonwrinkling textiles gain favor. The boucle weave cotton is praised for resiliant, quick drying fabrics. Designers use it in dresses and suits, allowing rub, shake, and air dry for a fresh look.
Dressmaker Bathing Suits Recall Fashions of 1890s
Fashion notes recall dressmaker bathing suit styles from the 1890s. Materials like taffeta and jersey are highlighted, with knitted suits favored. Describes shorter bloomers and skirts, open midriff, elastized princess silhouettes, one piece ballerina satin designs, and Hawaii inspired large floral effects.
Knitted Cape Fashion Buzz Follows Cape Trend
Fashion readers are urged to knit a cape this fall as capes remain in vogue while piping outfits. The piece notes interest in knitted capes and mentions pipe suit looks that imitate hand knit styles for early wear.
Cesspool advice and chimney creosote questions answered
A reader asks about dissolving kitchen grease in a cesspool and is advised that only a secondary overflow system with a grease trap works long term. Other inquiries cover creosote stains from an unused 125 year old house, insulation materials, red sandstone walls, chimney downdraft, aging linoleum, and protecting soft wood floors from caster marks with felt rollers.
Britain's shabby chic leaders and a New Deal fixer
A profile contrasts Captain Oliver Lyttleton, head of Britain's board of trade, famed for mobilizing defense resources and chic shabby attire, with James L. O'Neill, new deputy director of OPM Priorities in Washington. O'Neill, a bankers’ executive and “human catalyser,” rose from Pittsburgh roots to Guaranty Trust Co. and a key NRA/NEA role, shaping personnel and policy while easing political frictions.
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New York
Oliver Lyttleton
England
Board of Trade
Britain
Lyttleton
British Metals Corporation Ltd
OPM
James L. O'Neill
Guaranty Trust Co
NEA
Supreme Court
Donald Richberg
Mr. O'Neill
NRA
O’neill
Washington
Pittsburgh
O'Neill
Bradstreet Corp
Carnegie Steel Co
Aoa Trust Co
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Patter
Red Sea
Halifax
Merry
Marshall
War Department
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lady Pollock
Commerce Department
W. Walton Butterworth
State Department
London
Dominions
Allen Gullion
Army
Hap Hopper
Navy
Franklin Roosevelt
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
John E. Mack
Fdr
Charles Durant Maines
Flint
Mich
Harry Slattery
Alaska
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Cherie Nicholas
Fey Irs
HOUSE
Roger B. Whit
Roger B
Whitman
WNU
Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WIN
Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Cambridge
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