Inflation Blues and War Spending Echoes in Wartime Voice
The column rail at inflation links to Roosevelt's policies and wartime wage schemes. It denounces 40 hour weeks kept during war, claims unions and contractors profited from overtime graft, and warns that money lost value will not be restored.
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Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Time and Chance by Roy Baldridge a Credo Artist Writer
Baukhage reviews Roy Baldridge's Time and Chance a 400 page autobiography and art book. Baldridge's life from Arkansas farm boy to international artist is traced with WWI experience Paris New York and travels. The piece highlights Baldridge's philosophy perseverance and collaboration with Caroline Singer.
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Washington
Bist Cyru LeRoy Baldridge
Baldridge
Roy
Arkansas
Bankhage
Paris
Wilson
America
Stars and Stripes
Rue de la Paix
Buck
G.i.s
Caroline Singer
California
Seven Seas
China
Japan
Europe
India
Africa
Peking
Yokohama
Wallace Enters Race as Third-Party Bid Emerges
Wallace declares independence from two-party system aiming to form a peace party. He warns both major parties share pro war policies, courting left Democrats and facing Communist support. In Romania King Michael I abdicates, Romania proclaims a popular democratic republic as Communist regime tightens grip. US farmers report record prices with higher living costs and farm input prices in mid December.
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Henry Wallace
United States
Chicago
America
U. S
Russia
Wallace
New York
Ohio
California
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Eastern
Europe
Michael I
Romania
Michael
Anne
Bourbon- Parma
Denmark
Department of Agriculture
London Braces Break and Herald Trouser Troubles
Historian Arthur Bryant laments brittle British braces under a government order limiting elastic to three inches. He bought four pairs in a year and each failed within three months. The Times editorializes that The Four Freedoms are hollow if citizens cannot keep their pants up.
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England
London
Arthur Bryant
London Times
Bryant
the Times
Pushbutton bill of fare foresees electric vending expand
A Newark based lab plans an April beta store in Los Angeles where customers will buy food beverages and dry goods by pressing buttons. The system aims to extend to rural areas by 1950 with vending machines for coffee mouthwash peanuts juices bread eggs blouses stockings and more. Deep freeze and cooked meal machines are expensive and not yet widespread. No one has answered what happens to sales clerks if vending machines take over.
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Washington
Florida
C-Eight Laboratories
Newark
N. J
Los Angeles
Make a Colonial Bookcase With Simple Pine Pattern
A tiny home project promises a Montpelier style bookcase from little pine boards and a Tru-Edge Pattern. Trace the pattern, cut, assemble, and finish over two evenings with basic hand tools. Send 25 cents for Pattern No 18 to East-Bird Pattern Co Box 74 Pleasantville NY.
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Montpelier
East-Bird Pattern Co
Pleasantville
N. Y
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