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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1940
Page
37
Mrs Leonard C Vlach of 500 Twenty sixth Street SE won the third grand prize of fifty dollars in the Ad-Rite contest for a Security Laboratories ad. She has previously earned multiple merchandise awards and cash prizes, aided by her husband’s position at La Plant Choate Manufacturing.
New York based analysis by Thelma Prescott of NBC argues television will open broad roles for women beyond beauty. She notes women can lead in producing acting and technical duties as the industry grows, with many agencies already exploring female projects. Prescott, a former Paris fashion reporter, has not worked in radio.
Two former German raiders from World War I now operate as salmon vessels Otsego and Gen. W. C. Gorgas in Libby, McNeill & Libby fleet. The Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Prinz Sigismund sank merchants, were interned, then used by US shipping programs before sale.
In Columbus an organization the Universal Employment Betterment league pushes to limit working wives. Headed by Roland W. Jarvis, the group wants laws to replace wives who do not need work with single men or heads of families. They target state and federal offices and seek city ordinances to protect family incomes amid widespread poverty.
Thirty five families from southern Indiana joined Desiree Farms Inc to farm a government bought tract near Vincennes. They received homes land and equipment and now rent the land for six thousand dollars yearly. Early years faced flood and crop losses but the cooperative kept up payments to the government.
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