Decentralization Spurs Small Town Industrial Comeback
The article traces a national swing toward decentralization as defense driven growth shifts jobs from big cities to rural areas. It highlights firms like Hormel, Schenley, and Ford concessions, with leaders predicting lasting benefits for housing, living standards, and peace time production, while Chicago shows urban decline.
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Western Newspaper Union
Tom Jones
The
State University
Tom
America
Main Street
Grand Coulee
TVA
Boulder Dam
Middle West
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio River
Col
Charles P. Wood
Nation's Business
Rosenstiel
Henry Ford
W. J. Cameron
Ford Motor Company
Ford
United States
Clark H. Minor
International General Electric Company
Chicago
Urban Land Institute
Loop
Wall Street
Champion Farmers Hold Third Reunion In Chicago
More than 100 prominent farmers gathered for the Champion Farmers reunion during the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. They enjoyed two days of sightseeing banquets and events hosted by Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, including a Christmas banquet at the Congress Hotel with Leonard Firestone as host. The group spans livestock breeders crop production soil conservation and seed advancement.
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Champion Farmers
Chicago
Champion Farmers’ Association
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Congress Hotel
Leonard K. Firestone
Composite Soldier Profile From Army Figures
Washington reports the War Department figures outline the average recruit in height 5 ft 8 in, weight 144 lb, chest 33 inches, waist 31 inches, shoe 9.44, hat size 7, with costs for food clothing and basic equipment totaling about 404.65 dollars annually. It notes food costs about 175.20 dollars per year and details extensive standard issue clothing and gear for new enlistees.
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Washington
United States Army
War Department
Army Quartermaster Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Uncle Sam
Hidden treasure seizures target vast wartime materials stockpile
Government moves to seize a multi‑million ton hoard of steel bars sheets ship plates tin plate copper wire and other war materials stored in warehouses by Poland Czecho Slovakia Holland and Belgium three years of idleness and market buildup confronts a looming 20 to 25 thousand carload haul financed as a revolving fund. A separate note details an Italian officer’s letter from Fort Missoula and a shift in scrap iron imports from Japan amid defense production pressures.
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Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Holland
Belgium
Export Control Board
Gen
Russell Maxwell
Near East
Henry Wallace
Economic Defense Board
Hoboken
N. J
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
The
Fort Missoula
Mont
Italy
U. S
I Duce
Missoula
National Legion bans Greta Garbo film sparks debate
Virginia Vale notes the National Legion of Decency and Archbishop Spellman condemn Greta Garbo's Two Faced Woman while cities ban it. Hays office cleared it, and industry turns to future projects including The Constant Nymph remake with Boyer and Fontaine.
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National Legion of Decency
Greta Garbo
Archbishop Spellman
Hollywood
Will H. Hays
Pilot Sought for New 512 MPH Single Engine Fighter
The Army Air Corps winds up wind tunnel tests on a fast single engine fighter reaching 512 mph and 100 mph faster than existing planes. The search now focuses on finding a pilot capable of safely flying such speeds as all other bugs have been eliminated.
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Army Air Corps
Cast Fills Summit Shoot For Bell Tolls In Sierra Nevada
More than 120 technicians and actors left Hollywood to film at a location 9,300 feet high in the Sierra Nevada. Technicolor and long shots were used due to favorable snow conditions, echoing scenes from the book.
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Hollywood
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Donivee Purkey Blossoms into Hollywood Prospect
Donivee Purkey pursued acting from high school to college drama, catching a Paramount talent scout who sent her to Hollywood for a screen test. She may appear in The Fleet's In after changing her stage name to Laura Lee.
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Donivee Purkey
Paramount
Hollywood
Laura Lee
Texas tennis champ Jim Brown to shine in film star tourney
When Gilbert Roland Philip Reed Errol Flynn and other Hollywood stars who like tennis join the annual motion picture tournament next spring they may regret Paramount signing Jim Brown now starring in Out of the Frying Pan Brown is the Texas tennis champion and is set to play in the event.
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Gilbert Roland
Philip Reed
Errol Flynn
Paramount
Jim Brown
Brown
Texas
Radio’s Woman of Courage Features Two Leading Actresses
Esther Ralston a famed blonde film star and Enid Markey a striking brunette headline a radio program about women of courage. The piece notes their fame in early cinema and their prominence during radio’s era of peculiar gear and headphones.
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Radio
Esther Ralston
Enid Markey
Hollywood Dream Calls for Meet the People Cast
If you starred in Meet the People you are bound for fame. Virginia O'Brien and William Orr signed for films. Betty Wells is the third cast member to be photographed by Metro.
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Hollywood
Virginia O’brien
William Orr
Betty Wells
Metro
Photographers crown 1941s most photogenic stars
Rumors swirl that Errol Flynn earned dislike from New York news photographers. President Roosevelt will speak on December 24 at the National Christmas tree lighting via Mutual. Bob Hope and Rita Hayworth are named the most photogenerous stars of 1941 by Hollywood news cameras.
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Errol Flynn
New York
Roosevelt
Mutual
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Bob Hope
Rita Hayworth
Hollywood
Calico Cat Decorates The Gay Tea Towels
A CALICO cat performs above calico corners for a gay tea towel motif and adds decorative touches to seven designs. The transfer 79376 features bright plaid cat and corners with outline embroidery for gift-set stamping. order details follow.
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Calico
Largest Dictionary Project Proceeds in Shanghai
The Chinese claim the world’s largest dictionary and have produced the first volume in Shanghai. The final set will span 40 volumes and cover 60,000 Chinese characters, with completion estimated at ten years. Volume one, 478 pages, centers on the character yi and its 11,608 related words and phrases.
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Shanghai
Christmas Gift Tobacco Ad Highlighting George Washington Plug
Pleasing to the eye and pocketbook a Christmas wrapped gift of George Washington Cut Plug Tobacco in a colorful holiday tin. Smokers will enjoy quality and a gift card ready to fill in. A ideal smoker's gift for shoppers with long lists and light budgets with dealers featuring it in a big Christmas line.
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George Washington Oking Tobacco
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