Inflation cuts buying power across baskets and services
Sylvia Porter explains how the dollar’s value has declined unevenly over ten years. Food, housing costs, transportation, and services each show different erosion, with services rising fastest while goods benefited from productivity gains. The piece highlights durable versus non durable goods and notes the overall inflationary pattern.
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Sylvia Porter
The Banana Story from Uncle Ray
An item from Uncle Ray explains bananas as a leading world fruit with Brazil producing about 15 billion pounds annually. It notes the plant has a thick nonwoody stalk, how bananas grow upward, and ranks Ecuador India Venezuela Pakistan and Honduras after Brazil in production.
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Venezuela
Pakistan
Honduras
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Request for information requires SASE and postage
A note states materials will be mailed free of charge if a self-addressed stamped envelope is enclosed with the request. The instruction emphasizes including proper postage.
Pvt Ernest Jensen Completes Medical Specialist Course
SAM HOUSTON Tex Army Pvt Ernest R Jensen 25 son of Mr and Mrs Clarence E Jensen Benson's Mobile Court has completed a medical specialist course at the Army Medical Training Center here His wife Kristine lives at Legores Trailer Court.
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Ernest R. Jensen
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Legores Trailer Court
Wisconsin Civil Engineering Students Survey Chequamegon Forest
Robert E. Chalsma of 2218 Market Street leads among 46 University of Wisconsin civil engineering students surveying camps in the Chequamegon National Forest Bayfield County They compute maps report on topographic and hydrographic surveys triangulation route surveys stream flow measurement and waterpower site analysis and railway problems
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Market St
University of Wisconsin
Chequamegon National Forest
Bayfield County
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