Longing and reflections from a wartime life in High Point
A local reader shares musings on wartime nerves, weathering rationing, and cautious optimism inspired by FDR. The piece contrasts hardship with memories of luxury and daily life, recounting old comforts and a dream to travel despite the war.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
High Point
America
Grand Canyon
Yosemite Falls
Niagara Falls
New York
California
Jboy
Spero
Dehydrated Foods Cookery Manual Aims at War Diet
Washington report on 5000 revolutionary cookbooks for the Axis fight via dehydrated foods. Army cooks and civil servants study rehydration methods, ratios, and recipes to preserve nutrition and flavor. Civilian edition may follow with about 50,000 copies.
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Margaret
Washington
Uncle Sam
Axis
Manuel
Army Quartermaster Corps
Army
Shorter lighters cut lumber and wire use
Shortening wood matches by small margins is projected to save 380 car loads of lumber this year. Reducing wire stitching thickness will save 100 tons of steel in book matches, and other changes will conserve chemicals and virgin pulp.
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WPB Chemical Division
Large Aircraft Plant Handles Vast Metal Stock Varieties
At a major national aircraft engine plant workers manage about 1500 distinct steel bar stock sizes and roughly 500 other metal material sizes and types daily, reflecting a wide Inventory of raw materials and components.
War bonds offered for first firm to beat absenteeism record
W S Jack president of Jack and Heintz Inc Bedford Ohio pledges 125 War Bonds of 850 denomination to the employer of the first organization to equal his firm record of a month without an unauthorized absence. The Office of Dense Porth and Welfare Services says 341000 children will need support care as mothers enter war industries and the number is likely to double at peak employment.
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Job
W. S
Bill) Jack
Jack & Heintz, Inc
Bedford
Ohio
Office of Dense Porth and Welfare Services
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W. A. Bivins
Noah Webster
Ifather
Que
Walgreen’s
Mac
RE aEep Quank Ries
Soc
Phillips
Olafsen
Hargrove
S.S.S
Ayer
Bull Durham
Old North K
Tling
Haffle
Epsom
Parke-Davis
Squibb
Abbott
Merck
Upjohn
Lilly
Wyeth
Walgreen
Dependable
Home Entertainment
Wilson
Cardart
Ed Flowers
Lea
Smart
RSE
Gillette Blue Blades
U.S
Mother
Gibonan A.ote
U.S. Treasury Dept
Parkmoor
Moskins Clothing Company
North Main St
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