Statue of Liberty Draws Record 1941 Crowds in New York
Visitors flock to Bedloe's Island by ferry as the Statue of Liberty nears a 1941 record attendance. The monument, a gift from France, symbolizes freedoms from want fear and religion per Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms.
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Don G. Sandra
Union
New York
Bedloe's Island
Radio City
Brooklyn Bridge
Hall of Fame
New York Bay
Manhattan
Roosevelt
Ossining
Battery Park
Tor
Liberty
New York Harbor
Governor's Island
The
Battery
Brooklyn
City of
Narrows
Auguste Bartholdi
Bartholdi
France
United States
United States of America
Bedloe’s Island
Survey Urges Home Diet Classes For Price-Wary America
A Northwestern National Life Insurance study warns that rising food prices and possible scarcities require immediate home nutrition education. It urges public and vocational schools to teach the American wife and mother how to balance meals with inexpensive staples, emphasizing protein from meats, eggs, and dairy, and practical cooking methods over complex nutrition details.
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Minneapolis
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Correct Labels on Cans Will Assist U. S. Housewives
New York reports a plan for universal grade labeling of canned goods. Grocers and the National Consumer Association cooperate with the Agricultural Marketing Service to grade canned fruits and vegetables A and B. Labels will explain grade meaning product specifications type style and number of servings per can.
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U. S
New York
Agricultural Marketing Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Prisoners at Wisconsin State Penitentiary Demand Better Menu
In Waupun Wisconsin 900 inmates refused to dine with Bologna and Sausage visiting their prison kin. The crowd balked at the lunch options and demanded a meatier, varied menu from Werden John C. Burke, securing a change in the prison meal plan.
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Waupun
Wis
Werden John C. Burke
Canada Drives War Effort Fact and Debate to U S Public
In Washington a British high commissioner explains Canada’s conscription and war economy to U S readers amid Senate debate on emergency army service. He notes Canada’s 21 to 41 conscription rule, high wartime spending, and voluntary foreign service, contrasting with U S policy. The piece connects these details to broader Western resolve and cites Earl C. Ewert’s analysis of the army’s central role in society.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
Malcolm McDonald
United States
Regular
Army
Navy
Air Force
MacDonald
Britain
Kipling
Queen Anne Palace
Our Lady of the Snows
England
The
Earl C. Ewert
Fort Bragg
United States Army
Ewert
Little, Brown and Company
Everett Shinn
James Hulme
Hanson Baldwin
Briefer Notes on Love Curves and War Plans
A collection of light and political items notes the difficulties of love and a gas curfew easing parking. jokes about nervous indigestion from large pay envelopes. and mentions a postwar planning effort. Senator Davis proposes a bipartisan postwar problems commission, while Representative Voorhis seeks 500000 for funding.
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Davis
Pennsylvania
House
Voorhishag
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Oklahoma
Anacostia Hills
Weather Bureau
America
Congressional Record
Wickersham
Mr. Wickersham
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Massachusetts Ave
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