Wartime Profits Rise as OPA Battles Industry
An OPA study led by Chester Bowles argues profits rose postwar, with 1943 after tax profits more than double 1939 and 1944 stable despite tax hikes. Small businesses nearly doubled profits 1939 to 1944, while labor blames meat packers for shortages and price hikes. WPB lifts shoe regulation, enabling two tone and decorative styles. Postwar radio and TV prices expected to rise 30 percent with AM FM sets costing 45 to 75 dollars for tables and up to 500 dollars for consoles.
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Dept. of Commerce
OPA
Bowles
Bread and Butter
Consumers Publication
Willow Run Plant Ends as Last Liberator Rolls Out
Debary Ford Willow Run plant in Dearborn Michigan shut June 28 1945 ending a wartime bomber program that employed up to 70000 workers at its peak. Production began May 22 1942 and now Ford has no postwar plans for Willow Run.
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Willow Run Plant
Dearborn
Mich
Ford
Willow Run
UAW CIO Presses Plant Use for Full Production Promise
Officials from United Auto Workers (CIO) insist the plant must be utilized to fulfill vows of full production and 60 million jobs. No satisfactory answer has emerged.
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United Auto Workers
CIO
U. S. Aid for Wives of Servicemen in 1945
A U S Children's Bureau booklet notes Congress appropriated 42 8 million for the emergency maternity and infants care program aiding wives of service members and aviation cadets. The plan funds prenatal care birth and six weeks postnatal medical services at no cost to families, with care extended to the baby in the first year.
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Uncle Sam
U. S. Children’s Bureau
Congress
U. S
Children’s Bureau
Armed Services
Tailored Frock Pattern No 8870 for multiple sizes
Pattern notice instructs sending 20 cents plus name address pattern number and size to Federated Press Pattern Service 1150 Sixth Ave New York 19 N Y. Available in sizes 12 14 16 18 20 40 and 42.
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Federated Press Pattern Service
Sixth Ave
New York
N. Y
Frankensteen condemns Detroit strikes as folly in peace
Vice President Richard T. Frankensteen of the UAW CIO denounces the Detroit autoworkers strikes as bad in peace and tragic folly in war. He says workers are misled into democracy and criticizes the AFL CIO reconversion jurisdictional dispute fueling the walkouts.
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Detroit
Frankensteen
Vice
Richard T. Frankensteen
United Auto Workers (Cio
Aflcio
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East Sixth
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Ci Joe Sr
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