Women in War Effort Drive Harvest as Farm Labor Grows
The Women’s Land army mobilizes town and city women and youth to bolster farm labor amid tighter food supplies. The force, overseen by state extension services, placed about 350,000 women in farm work last year with similar numbers recruited by farmers. Roles span harvesting beans to peach cutting, with camps and flexible schedules across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Land Army
State Extension Service
State Agricultural College
Oregon
Washington
California
Air Corps
Smith College
New York State
WSA
New York City
Classified Ads From A Turbulent Time In Europe
A collection of provocative notices from a wartime classified page listing changes in management, exchanges of political items for goods, requests for unusual items, and satirical notices. Names like Berchtesgaden, Himmler, Doenitz, Truman, Stalin appear alongside calls for rat traps and doghouses.
Momentous Question Haunts Reasoning Over Summer Hat
A reflective piece ponders whether a straw hat can weather another season, mirroring a larger anxiety about endurance and time. The fragment evokes seasonal uncertainty and the weight of impending change.
Big Three giddiness fades as price talk heats up
The column jokes about postwar relations among Ford General Motors and public demand for a cheap car. It notes restaurant crowds and a headline fire scare as proof that diners stay loyal while prices rise. The piece imagines a new car around eight thousand five hundred dollars catering to the average purse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
General Motors
OPA Sets Ceiling Prices for Auto Repair Shops
The Office of Price Administration announces ceiling charges for auto repair work on deteriorating buses. Posters will appear at service stations and the public urged to enforce the price scale. The note ends with a satirical mock plan to confront shops with the rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willys
Houston
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Simpson Pontiac Company
Milam Street
Texas
Preston
OPA
Bowles
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United States
South Texas
RAGLA
Kingsville
South Xas
Ragland’s
Rozenweig
Bay City
Chevrolet
A. Welling
Cassie
Freestone
Harrison
Rains
Red River
Caldwell
Milam
Bastrop
Duval
Webb
Zapata
Nueces
Upton
Ward
Loving
Garza
Hartley
Willie R. Timmins
Stan « Ave
Dallas
Gus Herzik
la Grange Texas
New Mexico
Taylor
Aztec
N. M
K. H. Ackerman
Blanco
Harris County
Pinkerton
Route
Fayette County
Herman Domel
Rt. 1
Fayetteville
Farm Machinery & Equip
O.B. Houston
Earle North Bpick Company
Fairfax
Texas Farm Supply CO
Louisiana
Houston 2
Blank’s Exchange
Wichita Falls
Nanos
Roosevelt
Arthur John Laskarides
Payne St
Mechanical Equipment Co
Walker
Modern
E St
San Diego
Cal
XAS Carbonate Confre Y Florence Exas
Jewel Game Farm
Danville, Il
Ald Wilson
San Marcos
Tex
Eorge Cheney - Crockett
Barnhart
D. L. Taylor
Bonna
WNY
Sava
Fats
WLA
Germany
Usu
Federal
United States Department of Agriculture
Pacific
Connecticut
William and Mary College
Virginia
Sinai
S. D
Alps
Berchtesgaden Catering Company
Fritz
German Empire
Josef
Winnie
Emily Post
Hotfoot
Stack
Dahlquist
Germania
Austrian Alps
Berchtesgaden
G.I. Joe
Himmler
Nippon
Karl Doenitz
Kraut General Staff
Fuehrers
Reichsmarshals
Truman, Churchill & Stalin Corporation
Japan
President Truman
Anglefoo
Grend Rapids 4
Mich
DR. Kilmer
Department D. Kilmer & Co., Inc
Stamford
Conn
Ra Caray
U. S
Texas Footwear Company P
Dalles
Orda
Dize
Izes
Eviline
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