Senate Panel Pursues Cigarette Shortage Study
A Senate War Investigating Committee pressed ahead with a study of cigarette shortages, hearing from the War Manpower Commission, the War Food Administration, and the Office of Price Administration. Witnesses cited tighter civilian supply, ongoing overseas shipments, hoarding, and proposed price and production measures to ease distribution to retailers. Senator Ferguson quipped the nation still struggles to find cigarettes as troops buy more.
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Washington
Senate
War Investige Committee
War Manpower Commission
War Food Administration
Price Administration
Senator Ferguson
R-Mich
Support For Strike From Locals
Leaders of a union member strike at four Montgomery Ward stores in Detroit area received support from over 100 CIO locals. They traveled to Washington for a War Labor Board hearing and urged immediate action to enforce directives.
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Montgomery Ward
CIO
Washington
War Labor Board
Wayne County Cio
WLB
Industrial Casualties Exceed Those Of War
Labor administrators from 42 states told a Washington conference that industrial casualties from Pearl Harbor to January 1, 1944 surpassed battlefield deaths. They urged extending workmen’s compensation protections to all U. S. workers, noting 50 percent remain unprotected after decades in the field.
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Pacific
Pittsburgh
INS
Philippines
Diosdado Yap
America
Twentieth Century Club
Washington
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Poultry Freeze Hits New York City Supply
New York reports government poultry stockpiling in Delaware Maryland and Virginia areas drops New York live poultry receipts to about five percent of last year. The War Food Administration Market News Service notes the freeze starts at 12 01 am and continues until 110 million pounds are stored for army use.
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New York
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
New York City
War Food Administration Market News Service
WEA
Erie woman argues dogs' intelligence tied to training work
Mrs. J. C. Hadley of Erie after 40 years with many breeds says no single breed is smarter. She believes intelligence stems from the type of work dogs have been trained for through generations.
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Erie
J. C. Hadley
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