Racing Season Bets Hit 100 Million Threshold at Empire City
New York reports a 1943 regular 180 day racing season ending with Empire at Jamaica. wagers totaled 266.4 million through the tote, up 62 percent from 1942. Average daily betting reached 1.48 million with 3.34 million in attendance and a breakage of 1.878 million. World record play of 2.93 million occurred at Aqueduct on Labor Day.
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Aqueduct
Victory Garden Spirit Drives 1944 Food Plans
The notice urges Victory Gardeners of 1943 to expand efforts in 1944 or assist others without gardens. Encourage farming work during vacations, plan to use all produced food, and promote canning freezing and storage. Emphasizes reducing waste, sharing with armed forces, and supporting allies while tightening belts for victory.
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Wickard
Senate Moves Toward Peace Bill Approval Talks Delay Vote
The Senate nears approval of a foreign policy resolution endorsing a general international organization. Debate centers on a Moscow four power declaration section and a treaty ratification reservation, with Senators Nye Shipstead Wheeler Brooks and McClellan weighing amendments and timing for a vote.
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Foreign Relations Committee
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Shipstead
R-Minn
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D-Mont
Brooks
R-Ill
Nye
R-Nd
United States
Sen. McCellan
Fulbright
Cotton History Told By Crow For Rotarians In Thomasville
Smith Crow of Erlanger cotton mill in Lexington spoke to the Thomasville Rotary Club on cotton's history and the textile industry. He traced cotton from ornamental use to global trade, noted Eli Whitney's gin in 1793, and highlighted growth of mills and spindles through 1942, with South's rising textile prominence and wartime uses of 11 000 textile items.
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Textile club honors war effort and new member inducted
Mr Crow praised textile workers whose industry ranks second only to steel in the wartime effort. D A Long Jr led the program and introduced visitors including Shem Blackwell of Shelby H W Safrell C A Cloninger and John H Ketner of Kannapolis. Sherman B Laws was inducted as a new member.
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Milk price hike plan urged by dairy groups before Senate
Major milk producer representatives urged Congress to pass a bill raising retail milk by about one cent a quart and ending government subsidies. The plan would boost OPA ceiling prices by 50 cents per hundred pounds of whole milk and seek regional price adjustments after 120 days.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Office of Price Administration
OPA
National Cooperative Milk Producers’ Association
CPA
War Food Administration
Eastland
D-Miss
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D-Ark
Senate Agriculture Committee
Charles W. Holman
Cooperatives’ National Association
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