Main Street Stores Stock Up As 1951 Outlook Brightens
Department of commerce survey shows retail inventories on Main Street rising with non durable goods leading gains. January inventories reach 17.4 billion, durable goods up 100 million from December, non durables up 500 million. Federal Reserve notes store sales up 22 percent from January to March. Overall business inventories end January at 63.1 billion, up 1.8 billion from December. Parity ratio climbs to 113, highest since 1948, farm prices up 4 percent mid January to mid February while farm costs rise 1 percent. Farmers sold 4.4 billion in first two months of 1951, cash receipts up 15 percent over 1950. Net farmer income 13 billion in 1950 amid 19.1 billion in expenses. Prepared by Washington Bureau of WNU Features.
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Department of Commerce
Main Street
Federal Reserve Board
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
BAE
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Washington
WNU Features
VA questions and policy notes in military service column
Readers ask about VA outpatient care eligibility for Spanish American War veterans and GI bill subsistence for a dependent child. The column covers draft length debates, service ceilings, and West Point style questions with brief answers from military officials.
VA appropriation cuts challenged by AMVETS leader
Harold Russell national commander of AMVETS accuses groups pressing federal budget cuts of reviving the economy act of 1933 to harm disabled veterans and widows. He urged scrutiny of proposed VA decreases by lawmakers and business groups. About 8,100 USAF ROTC officers graduating in 1951 will enter active duty within 90 days of commissioning.
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Amvets
Harold Russell
Committee On Federal Tax Policy
Council of State Chambers of Commerce
USAF
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps
Air Force Reserve
Children Run Milton Unitarian Church Service
In Milton Massachusetts America's only children's church meets each Sunday with eighty youths taking active roles. A toddler lights altar candles while a 15 year old girl serves as church elder and cues the organist, guiding the service.
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Milton
Mass
America
Only Children’s Church
Children’s Church of the First Parish Unitarian Church
Susan Peters star expands to TV Miss Susan on NBT TV
Actress Susan Peters continues a busy stage and radio career before joining the TV serial Miss Susan. She plays a young lawyer with an excellent supporting cast including Mark Roberts and Helen Ray. Eddie Cantor is honored as Cancer Crusader, spearheading fund raising for the American Cancer Society in April. Evelyn Warden appears in Romeo and Juliet with Olivia de Havilland. A Milton church opens a Children’s Church, a 15 voice youth service run by kids 5 to 15 with one adult leader, Mrs Edyth Stonestreet.
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Miss Susan
Nbt-Tv
Miss Peters
Mark Roberts
Helen Ray
Katharyn Grill
Joseph Foley
Robert Pike
Eddie Cantor
American Cancer Society
Evelyn Warden
Dr. Malone
Pinky
Olivia de Havilland
New York
Miss de Havilland
Edyth Stonestreet
Vivian Pomeroy
First Parish Unitarian
Pomeroy
Kidnappers Turn Hosts as Garrison Car Breaks Down
While en route to Mexico City the Garrison party faces a car failure and a kidnapping scare. The band of five horsemen arrives, ropes the bumper, but the captives are invited inside by the leader and later learn the car is repaired. A hospitable ranch owner keeps them comfortable, and the couple contemplates staying as guests. The scene ends with a Sunday school joke about Lot and a boy named Raymond.
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Laredo
Mexico City
Pancho Villa
Mrs. Garrison
Mexico
Mr. Garrison
Crossword Puzzle Clue List
A list of across and down clues for a US style crossword with entries including Scheme Head cool coin in this place yarn measure and other common crossword terms for a puzzle page. Answers would fill a standard 15x15 grid with references to weather and city names hidden in the clues.
Word Puzzle Clues Recalled From Last Week
A compact puzzle clue set lists items like a musical instrument a size of coal and a correlative of neither with a pronoun as the final hint. The collection reads like a cross clue prompt from a bygone column.
Debates on Debt and Government Spending in Washington
Wright A. Patterson voices alarm over rising national debt in this critique of Congress and the President. He cites pork-barrel spending, proposed new taxes like a manufacturers excise tax, and a large federal payroll as drains on taxpayers, urging real economy and leadership.
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Washington
Congress
Democratic Party
Summer Time Scarf with Water Lily Embroidery Pattern
An advertisement for a summer time scarf featuring pink and green water lilies on snowy white fabric. Crocheted edging, pattern No 5531 offers instructions for applique or embroidery and a color chart. The Anne Cabot Album promises many needlework designs to crochet knit and embellish gifts. Send 25c today.
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Anne Cabot
Nook
Child's World Is Wonderful
A Chicago mother credits Hadacol for improving her 10 year old daughter Carmelita Plonka’s appetite and health after weeks of underweight, listing dramatic dietary changes and urging readers to ask their druggist or order from The LeBlanc Corporation Lafayette Louisiana.
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Carmelita Plonka
A. Plonka
Aberdeen
Chicago
Carmelita
Missouri
Hadacol
Badacol
LeBlanc Corporation
Lafayette
Louisiana
Oe Fm
Ecomomy
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Walter Shead
Armed Services
National Press
Washington, D.C
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Roger M. Ramey
Indianapolis
Allison
Malden, Mo
Moro
G. R
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Fla. A
Senate
Department of Defense
Hardin
Kentucky
Pentagon
U.S
Cairo
D. A
The
Veterans Administration
USAN
Peters
William Demarest
Lon Chaney
Shelley Winters
Farley Granger
James Wong “Howe
Inez Gerhard
Susan Peters
Richard H. Wilkinson
Little Chemist
Lot
Raymond
Pet
Inform
City
Alaska
River
Uruguay
By Wright A. Patterson
Bewing Circle
West Adams St
Carmelita Pionka
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