High Class Steaks Face Wartime Shortage This Winter
Chicago August 17 predicted a sharp drop in high grade steaks and prime beef as wartime controls press farmers to shift away from long fed cattle. Observers say supply will tighten from Aug to Dec with more medium grade beef replacing choice cuts. OPA ceilings curb feeding for high finish cattle, provoking a debate but a clear forecast of reduced deluxe cuts for diners. A Tibetan edition Bible and carrying yaks are noted in a separate tidbit.
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Chicago
Department Ofgriculture
Estern
OPA
Ration Roundup and New Britain Circus Day
Ration details list valid through late August to January 1944, including red blue and one stamp books for meat cheese sugar coffee gas and fuel oil with varied regional coupon values and dates. The piece shifts to New Britain, Conn, noting a factory bought the only tract in city limits big enough for a circus on Friday the thirteenth.
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Associated Press
East
Midwest
Southwest
New Brittain
Conn
Ickes Authorized to Order 48-Hour Coal Week
President Roosevelt approved Interior Secretary Ickes moving to a 48 hour work week for coal mines nationwide to avert a coal shortage. Byrnes cited mine stoppages and lost production of 25 million tons. Miners would gain 9 dollars weekly for 6 extra hours at time and a half. John L. Lewis urged adoption while Edwards R Burke noted it may raise costs beyond price approvals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ickes
Byrnes
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Edward R. Burke
Replacement means lot to draft age fathers on home front
Editor notes this second of three stories detailing how WMC plans to move draft age men into war production or the Army. It explains replacement schedules, occupational deferments, and the factors a draft board may consider to classify a father as necessary, with emphasis on the potential for reclassification and the limits of deferment.
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WMC
Washington
War Manpower Commission
Army
Selective Service
Norway police drafted into army under Quisling decree
Thousands of Norwegian police and Quisling personal guard are mobilized into the armed forces under a decree, with martial law-like measures proclaimed. The move follows the execution of police chief Gunnar Filifsen and aims to quell underground groups amid reinforced German troops in Norway.
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Stockholm
Vidkun Quisling
Quisling
London
CBS
Reuters
Norway
Berlin
Dagens Nyheter
Gunnar Filifsen
Germany
Winchell Gossip Notes With Lives of Albany Figures
Editorial page tease highlights Mame Fay death and flowers from local figures. Mentions social secretary sending acknowledgments, Pat diCiccoloria Vanderbilt and Carol Marcus lunching at the Stork, and a Warner Brothers two reel about NBC sportscaster Bill Sern. References Broadway scene on 47th Street Pick-up Fiara.
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Mame Fay
Albany
Pat diCiccoloria Vanderbilt
William Saroyan
Carol Marcus
Stork
Warner Brothers
NBC Sports News
Ree Bess
Bill Sern
Eve Curie Enlists in French Volunteer Army in England
Eve Curie daughter of Marie Curie has left New York for England to join the Corps Des Volontaires Francaises as a private truck driver. She aims to free French soldiers for combat and hopes the United States recognizes General De Gaulle’s Committee of National Liberation. Curie formerly traveled 40,000 miles as a Herald Tribune correspondent and wrote Journey Among Warriors.
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New York
Eve Curie
Marieurie
England
Corps Des Volontaires Francaises
American Women's Army Corps
Miss Curie
France
London
New York Herald Tribune
de Gaulle
United States
French Committee of National Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Honore Giraud
The
Herald Tribune
Africa
Russia
India
Burma
China
Fish Promise Delays Divorce Hearing in Rockford
Circuit Judge William R. Dusher will resume hearings on Mrs. Kenzura’s divorce suit after a Lake Huron vacation. He had promised Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kenzura a mess of fish if he catches any during the continued hearing, now set to resume on September 10.
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Rockford
Anthony Kenzura
William R. Dusher
Lake Huron
Prodigy Jimmy Varanius Turns Six in Daring Show
Jimmy Varanius celebrated his sixth birthday by performing 28 perfect chins and a sequence of words like pseudonym and surreptitious. He then did several double number problems and finished with back somersaults. His father Pete Varanius notes Jimmy could hang by his hands at eight months and can swim briefly underwater.
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Chicago
Jimmy Varanius
Pete Varanius
Jimmy
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Fiara
Red Army
Ukraine
Wagger
Piedmont Carolinas
ROYAL
Tire Service
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