Don’t Blame Post Office If Mail Moves Slowly Overseas
Cedar Rapids postal officials explain delays in delivering mail to service members overseas. Army post offices handle sorting once mail leaves the United States, with thousands of pieces daily and months sometimes elapsing before arrival. Officials note high volumes, rapid troop movements, and A.P.O. rules complicate delivery, while families grow anxious awaiting word from sons and husbands serving abroad.
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Post Office
Dagwood Bumstead
U. S. Army
America
Cedar Rapids
Adolph
Benito
United States
A.p.o.’S
Army
Frank B. Baldwin
Baldwin
A P.O. Center
A.P.O
A.P. O
K. T. Lubbock
Wrap Around Double Frock and Slip Pattern No 8345
Pattern No. 8345 offers a wrap around frock with a matching slip. Available in sizes 14 to 44, requires 444 yards of 35 inch material for size 16 dress and 343 yards for the slip with 5 yards incrac. Send 15 cents plus 1 cent postage to Cedar Rapids Gazette Today's Pattern Service 530 S. Wells Chicago with name address pattern number and size.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
S. Wells Street
Chicago
Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Elect Leaders at West Hotel
The Cedar Rapids Association of Life Underwriters named Harry Gathmann president and Vern White board chair at its annual meeting Monday at the Montrose hotel. Other officers include Ray L. Short and Reed Nelson. more board members were Ira Carruthers William Bayless Howard Brown Lee Winterberg and Ray Vernimont. Co. V. Shepherd named state president and Wallace Darling state committeeman. Nelson and Robert O. Bickel reported on the Des Moines convention. association year end membership stood at 90.
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Harry Gathmann
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Nelson
Robert O. Bickel
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids Association
Washington criticized for bickering while war coverage praised
Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, told a Newspaper Guild convention that despite bickerings Washington provided unparalleled reader interest in war production and organization. He cited some reporters struggle to retool for war coverage and warned that a few papers have created an impression of muddle and hostility to allies.
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Boston
Washington
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Davis
American Newspaper Guild
Greyhound Plans Nationwide Helicopter Aerial Busline
Detroit AP reports Greyhound Bus Lines plans a nationwide helicopter aerial busline. Manfred Burleigh, president of the Great Lakes Greyhound Lines, said initial service may start soon though large scale operation could be limited for now after filing with the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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Detroit
Greyhound Bus Lines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Manfred Burleigh
Great Lakes
Greyhound Lines
Sikorsky Helicopters to Link Detroit and Flint
The plan calls for an experimental Detroit to Flint air link using seven passenger helicopters designed by Igor Sikorsky. The service aims to carry passengers luggage and a pilot, with future plans to handle 14 passengers and two pilots. Mail and express cargo are also contemplated.
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Detroit
Flint. Mich
Igor Sikorsky
Nazi Industrial Empire in Europe
Washington AP reports that Nazi industrial combines have transformed Europe's economy into a vast empire. Goering led Reichswerke A.G. and Nazi authorities hold majority control, extending power over iron ore, metals, machinery, armament, and inland waterways. Austria's Alpine Montan A. G. and Czechoslovakia's Skoda works and Waffenwerke AG are key assets under Nazi domination.
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Washington
Europe
Germany
Nazi Party
Office of War Information
OWI
Reichswerke
Hermann Goering
A.G
Wehrmacht
Goering
Goering Combine
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Alpine Montan A. G
Skoda
Waffenwerke AG
Lesson in American Justice for Radar Theft Case
Thirteen Western Electric employees charged with stealing imperfect radar parts for study were sent back to work by Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan who called it a lesson in American justice. Five pled guilty but were withdrawn. Sullivan found them innocent and urged the men to return to their jobs to help win the war.
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Chicago
Western Electric Company
Philip L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Grand Jury
United States
Greer Garson Honored With British Medal
Hollywood report says Greer Garson received the British Picturegoer gold medal for her Mrs. Miniver performance, announced by her studio Tuesday.
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Hollywood
Calif
Greer Garson
Nutritious potato salad and garden pickins feature
The article offers a practical potato salad recipe with frankfurters eggs celery scallions and mayonnaise alongside garden fresh ideas for Jumble Salad Bowl Salisbury salad and gelatin ring creations. It also notes leftovers with cold meats and lists seasonal produce with price cues and meat outlooks for the week.
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Salisbury
Price notes on seafood items blend luxury and local fish
A market listing describes luxury pricing for shrimp and lobster tails with special orders for whole lobsters priced high. Mississippi river white perch are noted as cheap, buffalo and catfish mid-range with some items marked expensive or cheap. Cap appears as a brief label or item.
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California
Cuba
Imperim
Mexico
Califor
Lake Superior
Mississippi River
Meat stretching recipes for warm weather dishes
In Over the Back Fence Naomi Doebel offers homestyle tips for flavorful meat stretching. A lamb patty grill uses ground lamb bread crumbs celery parsley and seasonings, formed into small cakes and browned on a greased pan, served with boiled sweet potatoes and apricots, then a bacon fat brush. The piece suggests affordable beef options for barbecued steak sandwiches and styles a buttered cauliflower side with grapefruit salad and a cheeselike pudding.
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Sid Selyve
Barbecued Steak Sandwiches and Barbecue Sauce Overview
Open sandwiches with chopped meat toppers and a barbecued sauce recipe are described. Ingredients include beef, onions, crumbs, and seasonings for four patties, broiled and served on toast with a separate barbecue sauce recipe using catsup vinegar and Worcestershire.
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