Inventories Rise as Retailers Offer Stronger Incentives
Increased pile up of inventories continues to plague retail merchants along Main Street with dealers boosting incentives for durables including an auto maker offering a year’s supply of gasoline free to push a model. Federal Reserve survey shows department store stocks up 12 percent from January and 30 percent above year ago. wholesale prices barely change while consumer prices rise 0.4 percent.
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Main Street
Federal Reserve Board
Office of Business Economics
Department of Commerce
Washington
WNU Features
Army Medical Service Reserve to be activated in June
The Army announces that 105 medi cal officers of the Army Medical Service Reserve will be ordered to active duty in June, the third such group since December bringing total activated since Korea began to 2304.
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Walter Shead
Armed Servces
National Press
Washington, D.C
Army Medical Service Reserve
Millions of Vets Trained Under GI Bill Since 1943
About 8 million veterans have trained under Public Law 18 and the GI Bill since 1943 44. By April 1 1951 2 567 608 veterans had GI loans totaling 14.7 billion dollars with roughly half guaranteed by the Veterans Administration. Graduates planning graduate study must file applications before graduation and pre vet students denied entry to veterinary schools by July 25 can start training when space opens.
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Veterans Administration
Spring Furniture Buying Cheer Brings Caution and Style
The article urges swift spring shopping for furniture while plentiful supplies delay price rises. It counsels mixing period items like William and Mary with modern pieces, notes sturdy juvenile furniture and new rayon rugs, and highlights affordable drapery fabrics as silk becomes cheaper.
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William and Mary
Queen Anne
Chippendale
Sheraton
Duncan Phyfe
Hepplewhite
Marine sergeant solves letter writing problem headline
Marine staff sergeant William Parker instructed 73 recruits at a San Diego base and ordered them to write to their mothers. His own mother, Mrs. Harry Gronquist of Peoria, received 78 letters and recently scolded him for not writing more often.
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Peoria
William Parker
San Diego
Parker
Harry Gronquist
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