Party Games and Flirtatious Fun From a GAY GADGETS Page
A lively guide describes crowd games for a party with newspaper dress design, love letter crafting, serenade pairing, and a multicaliber Multiplication Mixer. It includes playful slang, joke items, and flirtatious prompts aimed at teens, ending with caution on wolf whistles and makeup.
Five Prosperous Years Ahead For Agriculture
Postwar aims point to a five year prosperity period for agriculture as experts cite government spending, high industry activity, and pent up demand. Warns of readjustment challenges from rapid mechanization and shifting labor, with farm prices not expected to rise during the boom.
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American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers
la Salle Hotel
Chicago
Walter W. Wilcox
University of Wisconsin
Walter B. Garver
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Garver
Johnson
W. D. Davis
Sutter Farm Company
Kansas City
Karl F. Adams
Bloomington Farm Management Service
Bloomington
Davis
Adams
Minute Make Ups By Gabrielle Brush Your Hair
Brush your hair up and out every night and morning with a clean hairbrush. Clean brushes in warm water with powdered borax and dry in a sunny window. For a too dry scalp use an ointment to stimulate circulation. If skin is oily use a hair lotion. Ledger Syndicate WNU Features.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
New Mineral Brazilianite Seen as Possible Gem
A joint announcement by Smithsonian Institution and American Museum of Natural History researchers credits Edward P. Henderson and Frederick H. Pough with discovery of brazilianite in Brazil. The hydrous sodium aluminum phosphate is yellowish green and may be cut into gems, though its scarcity and limited hardness likely curb popularity.
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Smithsonian Institution
American Museum of Natural History
Brazil
Edward P. Henderson
Frederick H. Pough
California
Atomic energy could heat towns and power industries soon
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the atomic bomb project, predicts within five years atomic energy may heat homes and power large communities and industry. He cautions it will augment, not replace, existing power sources and must be used on a large scale with heavy shielding.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Atomic Energy
Dr. Oppenheimer
Liberty Magazine
Washington Digest on Truman’s Office Shuffle
President Truman’s year-end look reveals many Roosevelt holdovers in key posts with limited policy changes. The report notes staffing shuffles from Byrnes to Vinson and Snyder, concerns over reconversion pace, and the fate of OWI as wartime agencies wind down.
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Truman
White House
FDR
James F. Byrnes
Southland
Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
Byrnes
Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Fred Vinson
Vinson
Robert E. Hannegan
Robert Patterson
Henry L. Stimson
Department
Stimson
James V. Forrestal
Navy
Henry A. Wallace
Commerce
Harold L. Ickes
Interior
Clinton P. Anderson
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Tom C. Clark
Paul V. McNutt
Philippine Islands
William D. Hassett
Washington
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
John W. Snyder
Snyder
OWMA
Barbs by Bankhage highlights wartime mischief and vanity
The essay ridicules wartime schemes such as British bounty rewards for rats in Hong Kong and Chinese rat breeding plots. It notes the Japanese women’s federation urging kimono donations for food imports, credits Koreans with influencing Japanese culture, and cites a Nuernberg “modernization” tale of Faver Castle and 200 guests sharing three bathrooms during the trials.
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Hong Kong
Faver
Nuernberg
Boxes and Trays to Decorate the Home Pattern 250
A detailed home craft pattern explains transforming tins and cans into decorative boxes and trays with a Dutch front design. It provides 12 designs with full-size painting guides, lid construction, antique finishes, color mixes, and adaptable sizes. Sample projects include a cigarette box from a fruit can and a trinket box from a salmon can. Pattern 250 costs 15 cents postpaid.
Famous Duels That Never Happened Across Time
A pair of notorious duel challenges ends before action. Gen Israel Putnam faced a powdered barrel and lit candle wager with the last man out winning. Otto von Bismarck once challenged a famed German scientist who chose two sausages, one infected, but the Iron Chancellor withdrew.
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Israel Putnam
Otto von Bismarck
Bismarck
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