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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1944
Page
6
The new rationing system begins February 27 with red and blue stamps in book four set at 10 points each for 12 weeks. Change will yield tokens worth one point, tokens remain valid indefinitely for future purchases, and monthly stamp volume drops by two billion four hundred million. Top picture shows 10 point stamps ease counting.
The War Department says 1944 deliveries must surpass 1943 to meet essential needs and no near-term production relaxation is expected. Although some program parts peak has passed, max delivery rates and capacity use do not align. Much output is for components to be used in guns, tanks, planes in early 1944, with 1945 demand tied to first-half 1945 completions.
Practical tips on conversational skill emphasizing avoiding personal questions and intruding on others privacy. Encourage seeking listener opinions on controversial topics while maintaining a belief in their view. Recommend showing interest in friends troubles and cultivating a pleasant speaking voice through reading aloud.
Berlin dispatches report German divers retrieved 12 boxes of Italian lire from a sunken Italian destroyer in Venice harbor. The money is described as the Italian war treasury, sunk as the destroyer tried to flee during Pietro Badoglio’s capitulation.
Ration tokens may halve shopping time as a feature in a playful column. Tips include using an empty lipstick case as a bobby pin holder, a lipstick case as a portable needle and thread kit, and storing notes inside a lipstick case for quick messaging. Other ideas cover melting old lipstick into a new shade and converting old compacts into lockets or decorative frames.
A Western Newspaper Union release summarizes Lieut. Col. Lewis A. Riggins’s two and a half months of observations of American ground forces in Italy. It details soldiers’ worries about home rationing food rumors mail clothing weather and frontline etiquette plus notes on enemy tactics and soldiers’ physical readiness.
A fragmentary guide describes teens using vinyl records and old album art for DIY projects. It outlines ideas like hanging pasted band portraits, threading cords through record holes, burning cracked discs, stringing pieces into a necklace, repurposing a book case as a cabinet, and shaping scratched records into a tray or pin display.
A-20 aircraft rebuilt from wreckage in New Guinea by aero mechanics now flies a regular noncombat service to the mainland for steak and eggs and other delicacies. Crews test flew it, then six weeks later it began its mission bringing back provisions. Pilots use it for off duty flips across the Coral Sea to stock up.
Beginning February 27 housewives will use a simplified rationing system with red and blue stamps valued at ten points and 12 week validity. Tokens worth one point provide change and can be used alone, reducing lines and clerical work while easing family food budgeting.
A brief guide from Ledger Syndicate offers methods to keep gloves smelling sweet. Spray palms with cologne and dab wrists with perfume, then place sachet pads in the glove box. Wash cotton gloves after each wear and add a few cologne drops to rinse water to maintain scent.
A World War II outpost in the Southwest Pacific raises a mile marker reading Washington 11 673 miles and Tokyo 4 231 miles with arrows indicating directions. The marker shows the nearest Japanese position at one fourth mile in a thickly jungled mountain area.
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