Postwar plan warns 8 to 10 million jobs needed in peacetime
Senate committee urges rapid demobilization and a surge in gross national production to ensure full employment for 54 to 56 million workers after World War II. It calls for 16 policy steps including housing, unemployment, tax, trade, and public works reforms to avert mass unemployment in the transition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
United
George
Treasury
Securities and Exchange Act
Cienetee
Drug Stores and distributors listed with multiple locations
A list of drug stores and distributors with addresses in Kansas City and surrounding areas. Includes names such as Hebberd's Prog Store, Deerflinger's Drug Dept, Boerner's Walereen Drug Store, Roeschier Bros. Drug Store, and Streicher's Drege Store among others, with street and cross street details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebberd
Ford Hopkins Co
Deerflinger's Drug Dept
Kay
Boerner’s Walereen
Stéd
Ligeett’s
Main St
Roeschier Bros
Bspell’s
Law's
Market St
People’s Drug Store
Spence-McCord Drug Co
Boni's Hunt Nets Consolation Prize
On the Salween front in China war correspondent William F. Boni borrowed a carbine to hunt small game. After an hour he missed a crow first by failure to load, then failed again with a second attempt. Two hours later he returned to camp with wild flowers as trophies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salween
China
William F. Boni
Associated Press
Boni
Maynard L. Park
John Park
South Eighth Street
Army Air Corps
Lubbock
Tex
Sheppard Field
Arkadelphia
Ark
San Antonio
Fort Stockton
San Angelo
Central High
Elinor Papenfuss
Robert J. Papenfuss
Signal Corps
Army
Camp Crowder
McChord Field
Wash
Drew Field
Fla
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Asbury Park
Central Signal School Training Center
Lieut
Papenfuss
Joplin, Mo
How Leathernecks Keep Selves Clean
KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands Marines have two simple washing methods in the tropics. They hang clothes on rocks and let waves rinse them clean. Some use washing machines powered by a windmill while others wade into the water and swing garments to scour dirt out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands
Tropics
Rings Vested In Wife in Marriage Ceremony
Charleston magistrate Thomas A. Matthews ruled that engagement and wedding rings become the wife's property on the ceremony. In a domestic dispute he advised a wife not to hide her husband’s shoes to keep him at home and ordered the husband to return the wife’s rings taken in retaliation.
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Charleston
Ls. C
Thomas A. Matthews
Matthews
Hull Returns to Desk After Rest in Hershey
Secretary of State Hull resumes duties after a 10 day rest at Hershey Pennsylvania. He meets the visiting Polish premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk as one of his first duties back at the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hull
Hershey
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Central High School
State Teachers College
Santa Ana
Calif
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Ralph
Merchant Marine
Sheepshead Bay
Brooklyn
N. Y
Atlantic
Jennie Moore
Marshalltown
Our Men in Service From La Crosse Area
A bulletin lists numerous La Crosse area men in the U S military with recent commissions, promotions, training locations, and current assignments. Names include Maynard L Park Robert J Papenfuss Fred G Muller Jr Frank A Spah and many others with ranks from private to captain and posts in Texas Arkansas California Washington Missouri Illinois Florida and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Newburg
West Salem
Corp
Victor L
South Pacific
Arkansas
Texas
Arizona
Pfc
Everett C
Washington
Oregon
California
Maryland
New York
Mary Fogel
Everett, Jr
la Crescent
Rome Occupation Mixes Normal Life With Tensions
Edward Kennedy reports on a week of Allied control in Rome noting friendly reception of American soldiers, rising food prices, and shortages. Gasoline and flour prices fall from pre‑fall levels, utilities are partially restored, and spy hunts target Fascists, with civilians wary of German agents.
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Rome
Mussolini
Delegates From Labor and Farmers to Meet in La Crosse
Nearly 200 delegates from organized labor unions in La Crosse area and Farmers union locals will attend an economic conference at the La Crosse Vocational and Adult school Tuesday evening. Glenn R. Atkinson and Kenneth W. Hones lead the program. Atkinson is a Washington liaison officer for railway labor, with a 20 year labor movement career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Farmers’ Union
Economistc
Glenn R. Atkinson
Washington, D. C
Kenneth W. Hones
Colfax
Wis
Wisconsin Farmers’ Union
Atkinson
Music Instruments Sent to U. S. Troops Overseas
Chicago reports three thousand harmonicas and related instruments donated by the public for overseas troops. The drive was sparked by Larry Adler after receiving soldiers letters requesting worn-out instruments. A high school harmonica orchestra in Easton Pa and a donor past 70 contributed gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
America
Larry Adler
Adler
Easton
Pas
North Africa landings require vast clothing supply
In the North African landings, 390 different types of clothing had to be provided for our men.
Moonshiner Tracks Himself To Jug
A federal revenue agent tailing an illegal liquor still operator in Lexington county spots tracks in the bushes. The man follows the footprints to a hiding place where the agent reveals himself and arrests him.
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Columbia, S. C
Federal Revenue
Lexington County
Man 81 Walks Seven Miles Daily in Walderslade
Joseph Hill, 81, of Walderslade England, maintains a daily seven mile walk to stay fit. As a youth he often glimpsed Charles Dickens, who shared tales and scenes from his era with locals.
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Man
Joseph Hill
Walderslade
England
Charles Dickens
Earful of Songs Yet No Movie Theater Experience
A voice notes that he has the words and tunes of 400 songs but has never visited a motion picture theater. The remark highlights a broad musical knowledge without cinema exposure.
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Congress
Cheokset
Sulfa CO
Kansas City
Missouri
Boni’s
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
Nn. Y. Co
Pepsi-Cola
U. S
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Foreign Service
Fred G. Muller, Jr
Charles Street
Army Air Forces
Pampa
Army Air School
Fred Carl Manske
Luella H. Nack
State Street
Army Air Forces Pilot School
Luke Field
Ariz
Glendale
Lancaster
Frank A. Spah
Matt Spah
South 11Th Street
U. S. Air Force Command
Europe
New Orleans
Army Air Base
Patterson Field
Edwin L
Francis Edward Lupie
North 20Th Street
Institute of Meteorology
University of Chicago
Brunette J. Haines
Third Air Force
Hunter Field
George Haines
Arcadia
Capt
M. C. Haines
Air Force Medical Corps
Reno
Nev
Darrell J. Mickschl
USNTS
Great Lakes
Bernard G. Hilke
Co. A
49Th Armored Inf
APO
Camp Polk
Jack Jacques
ASFTC
Co. D
Camp Barkeley
Camp Robinson
Frank B. Davy
June E
Dale Mabry
Tallahassee
Duane Raeder
W. C. Schlicht
Co. B
Med
Camp Adair
Ore
Dennis W. Shea
San Francisco
Ensign J. A. Rau
USNR
Naval Barracks
Nad
Hawthorne
Nev. Corp
Richard Langdon
North Camp Hood
Floyd Mahlum
Tulsa Field
Okla
Everett E. Bey
Co. G
Gerald A. Peterson
Page Field
Fort Myers
George Cerny
William Bruce Schultz
USN
Brooklyn Naval Hospital
A. J. Wateski
East Avenue South
Ida Williams
Richard C. Moore
Ninth Air Force
Roger Allison Perkins
A. Petrick
Cameron Avenue
Kathryn Hoar
East Orange
Richard F. Blaschke
John Blaschke
Main Street
Stockton Field
Army Air Force Pilot School
Robert Steele
Everett Steele
Green Island
Nashville
Tenn
Elzine Knothe
Gordon R. Olson
Harry Olson
Avon Street
Casablanca
Algeria
John W. Boerner
East 11Th Street
Little Rock
Howard Ekholm
Camp Breckenridge
Lyle Shanley, Jr
Arnold Kriemelmeyer
Dearborn
Mich
Shoemaker
Ernest Anderson
Muller
Manske
Richard
Blaschke
Victor
Everett
Olson
Steele
Crescent Jewelers
Edward Kennedy
Labor, Farmers
Brookwood College
University of Cincinnati
Salmon P. Chase College of Law
Interstate Commerce Commission
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Cincinnati
Moonshiner
Jug
Treee
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