Broadway Feud Grows Between Billy Rose and Michael Todd
The skirmish between Billy Rose and Michael Todd dominates Broadway chatter on the street corners and at the World’s Fair midways. Promoter pride fuels the rivalry as each aims to outshine the other as the premiere Broadway figure of the moment.
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Broadway Showmen Battle for Supremacy in New York
Billy and Mike Todd clash in a winner take all contest of Broadway productions. Diamund Horseaber and Carmen Jones run profitably while others like Mencen Hay ride struggle. Billy leads with stronger shows as both producers push new attractions at the Ziegfeld Theater and plan central park musical comedy Up In Central Park with Jeanette MacDonald.
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Caloura
Mike Todd
Mike
Costurrency Op Bronawey
Mae Weet
Catherine
New York
Herbert Fields
Central Park
Jeanette MacDonald
Inflation Haunts Wartime Life in China
An American writer notes the absurd costs of dating in wartime China, detailing a frugal evening in Kunming that still totals about 7000 dollars including a modest dinner, short rickshaw ride, and tickets, with champagne pushing the bill to 35000 dollars. Private dinners, theaters, and taxis illustrate inflation’s bite.
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Emil Reynolds
WEA
China
Kunming
Inflation and black market in war torn China
The piece details soaring prices and severe living costs in China under wartime inflation. It notes 800 percent cost increases since January, widespread use of the black market, and government price controls. Army supply relies on black market items like industrial alcohol, light bulbs, coffins, cement, nails, and more with vast U.S. dollar equivalents.
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Germany
China
United States Army
Chungking
Quartermaster Department
Army Finance Department
Kunming
Animated Scarecrow Guards Downieville Victory Garden
In Downieville California Deputy Sheriff Stanley W. McCormick built an animated scarecrow to deter nightly deer raids. The device uses tin-can buzzers and a lever to flap arms every two minutes, dumping water to reset, and baring deers back toward the woods.
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AP News
Downieville
Calht
High
Sierras
Stanley WN. McCormick
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No Salivary Glands Crocodiles Swallow In Water
Crocodiles cannot swallow their food out of water due to lack of salivary glands. They must wash their meals down while still submerged or with water assistance. This biological note highlights how their feeding mechanism relies on water to aid ingestion.
Railroads Report Revenue Rise in First Half 1944
Class I railroads in the United States earned about 5.5 percent more revenue from ten-miles of service in the first six months of 1944 than in the same period of 1943, and roughly 27.5 percent higher than in the earlier year.
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Gary Clements
Slocomb
Ala
Military Industry and Allied Supply Highlights
The text notes Buna synthetic rubber output reaching 600 million pounds in early 1944, about 72 percent of world Buna S production. It describes armored tank observation panels, termed pris matic newny blocks, enabling 360 degree vision. It also records the transfer of over four million troops and 63 million ship-tons of supplies from the United States to 127 overseas ports between December 1941 and June 1944.
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Buna
U.S
Mechanical Pitchfork Revolutionizes Harvest Labor
A new mechanical pitchfork reduces field labor by replacing ten workers and three machines with an automated device. It aims to boost efficiency in harvesting, easing the burden on farm crews and cutting manual effort.
Army shipping in war doubles tonnage since 1941
Since December 1941 the Army has dispatched to the European theater of operations more than 18 million ship tons of cargo, more than twice the 8,900,000 ship tons sent to the AEF in World War I.
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AEF
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