OPA raises butter and cheese points in ration changes
The Office of Price Administration announces weekly ration adjustments with new point values for butter and cheese and outlines changes to meat and fish allowances. Beef and lamb remain rationed, while some dairy products see higher values to curb rapid consumption. Stamps valid Sundays reset to monthly periods, and the August civilian meat supply is reported down from July levels.
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Nnlien
OPA
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Bowles
Neuschatel
Italjan
Munster
Limburger
Speed of Aircraft Production Improves with Lamps
Special electric lamps dry paint of aircraft instruments in nine minutes saving time versus conventional ovens that take two hours per batch.
Old age and unemployment aid details under Social Security
A 1937 Federal Old Age Assistance program outlines who qualifies for old age benefits and how contributions and employer matches work. It explains covered occupations, exclusions, and the impact of marriage on benefits, plus notes unemployment compensation is state administered with typical payments around 13 dollars weekly and cross-state wage considerations for workers who move for war plant work.
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Agnculuire
Congress
Vakers
Mississippi
California
Michigan
Unemployment pay rules across states explained
A discussion explains how workers who move between states receive unemployment compensation under U S employment service agreements. It notes differences in state benefits, employer 3 percent payroll contributions, and gaps where small employers do not fund coverage. It also mentions electric eyes and daylight responsive lighting in schools.
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Mississippi
U. S
U.S E.S
Caifornia
Michigan
Newsmen Wagering On Fall Of Nazis in France
American troops in France bet on when Paris would fall as Germany neared collapse. Correspondents with the U.S. First Army formed a pool to predict Paris capture with dates ranging from August to October, with September 1 as the favored target.
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U. S
France
Germany
US S. First Army
Paris
Ritchie Presented Second Oak Cluster
Staff Sergeant Mack S. Ritchie, 26, of Columbia Alabama, a runner on an Eighth Air Force B 17, received the Oak Cluster Air Medal for meritorious achievement during heavy bombing campaigns over Germany and occupied Europe. Colonel Karl Truesdell Jr. presented the award.
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England
Mack S. Ritchie
Columbia
Ala
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Air Medal
Vitat Naz
Germany
Ocoupied
Europe
Karl Truesdell Jr
Washington, D.C
Spi. Ritee
Senator Lee ODaniel Chooses New Party To Run For President
In Birmingham delegates in a new party convention plan to back anti Roosevelt sentiment. The event aims to select presidential electors and oppose Roosevelt while noting some party leaders may split from the Roosevelts. Rucker doubts full Alabama county representation and cautions tentative attendance estimates. A prior report says over 100 anti-Roosevelt Democrats align with the new party.
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Lee O'Daniel
New Party
Birmingham
Oda
Beringham
Caiow
Salatemide
Roose
Eli Rucker
Alabama
Russians Predicting Long Drawn Out War
A New York area source quotes an unidentified Soviet authority predicting a protracted conflict. The analyst, cited from Moscow, says no one knows how the war will unfold as the next major event could shift momentum. Cassidy, in Moscow for a year, mentions a rally and ties to early barometer ideas from 1643.
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Cassidy
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