National Income Record Set as War Effort Peaks
Wartime production surged in 1944 with U S commerce data showing 197 billion dollars of goods and services produced and 155 billion dollars in personal income. Farm income exceeded 20 billion as 96.6 billion went to war needs and 25 billion pounds of meat output was reported.
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T. Henry Foster
American Meat Institute
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Foster
U. S. Department of Commerce
Department
OPA
Pacific
Dislocation and Hunger Shape Europe’s Food Crisis
Washington Digest examines how disorganization, transportation disruption, and postliberation conditions fuel hunger in Europe. It notes that rail and port damage, not direct destruction of crops, worsens shortages, with Greece and Italy cited amid war fatigue and governance challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Myron Taylor
Vatican
Italy
Europe
America
Greece
Piraeus
Athens
Rome
Marseille
Normandy
France
Rhine
Netherlands
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Holland
Germany
Radio industry eyes 145000 workers postwar demand
With high demand for tubes sets and television and frequency modulation receivers, the radio industry anticipates employing at least 145000 people after the war, up from 86173 prewar. About 60 percent of the workers would be women, officials estimate.
Barbs by Bankhage on taxes and big institutions
The column notes safety razor blade output remains ample for the quarter and mocks five o clock shadows. It cites Stuart Chase on how big business unions and farmers invite big government, hints at John Q Public needing a larger role, and mentions a Tokyo report on tax revenue declines. It also references a renewed farm land boom and mortgage laden prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Chase
John Q
Pretty Be-Ruffled Dress Pattern for Tots
Sewing circle pattern No. 1250 offers a gay be-ruffled pantie frock with round yoke and swing skirt, sized for ages 2 to 6 years. Size 3 requires 21 1/2 yards of fabric and 1/2 yard ruffling. order via provided address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pride and Joy
Inmate Suggests Odd Career Path After Discharge
An asylum inmate, nearing release as cured, jokes with the superintendent about future roles. He lists becoming a lawyer, bookkeeper, interpreter, painter, carpenter, or even a tea kettle if work is tough, highlighting his wit as he departs.
Cop Learns Joint Ownership From GI Joe in Texas Tale
A Texas town with five cent parking meters sees a GI Joe soldier exit a jeep. A street cop tells him to drop a nickel, but the soldier replies that the meter is as much the meter’s as theirs, prompting a humorous exchange on shared property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cop
GI Joe
Texas
Splendid Cough Relief Mixed at Home for Quick Relief
Quick cough relief recipe uses sugar or corn syrup with 2 ounces of Pinex to make a pint of medicine. No cooking needed and claimed to loosen phlegm ease irritation and help sleep with a money back guarantee.
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Western Newspaper Union
Belgium
Patton
George S. Patton
U. S
Luxembourg
von Rand- Stedt
General Patton
Saar
von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Third Army
Meuse
Courtney Hodges
First Army
Bulge
Liege
Ardennes Forest
Allied Intelligence Department
Peyton C. March
Richmond
Lucky Winnie
Britain
Winston Churchill
Churchill
James F. Byrnes
War Production Board
War Manpower Commission
Philippine
Leyte
Samar
Mindoro
Philippines
Gangling Archipelago
Sugiyama
Tokyo
Gen. Patton
Washington Digest
MacArthur
Manila
Bataan
Tacloban
Bankhage
WPB
Secretary of Agriculture
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Alanced
Lad la UT
Clabber
Ee Ee
Brown
McKesson Laboratories
and McKesson
Soretone
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