New Comfort Rail Cars Aim to Lure Postwar Travelers
Railroads push modernized coaches sleepers and recreation cars from Pullman and Budd to face airline and bus competition. Designs include long distance coaches with adjustable seats roomettes duplex rooms drawing rooms and three tier sleepers plus dining and bar lounges with air conditioning radios and improved braking and coupling for safer smoother travel.
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Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co
Philadelphia
Pullman
Budd
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Dei
Budd's
GY Gadgets and Trinkets in a Brooklyn High School
A playful catalog of novelty accessories from pins to dice earrings and prune pit jewelry. Highlights include dice-on-screw earrings, tiny doll pins, rabbit and wolf license pins, and Harvey rabbit pins inspired by the play, with tips on making or buying quirky gadgets.
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Brooklyn
Harvey
Fragments of a scented hygiene guidance passage
A fragmentary text describes cleanliness and perfume in a dating or social setting. It mentions soap and water, bathing, and lingering scent, with unclear context about use and social judgments. The piece references boys, perfume, and dancing, but the narrative is garbled and incomplete.
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Godlinene
Secret Scents and Perfume Tips for a Night Out
A playful guide suggests using perfume subtly to enhance a look for tonight. Tips include dabbing perfume on eyebrows lips fingertips and behind the ears and wearing scented hair or flowers. A scented soap sachet in a bureau drawer keeps clothes smelling lavender and old lace.
Trixie Teen Teases Love Triangle Advice Card
A cheeky advice blurb from Trixie Teen discusses dating two boys, Bob and Bill, and juggling stories about gifts. It humorously notes the risks of keeping an online public dating life and the gossip around a complicated love scene.
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Bob
Bill
Navy pays Port Chicago blast damage claims
Damage claims totaling 1,869,114.83 have been paid or recommended for payment by the navy following the Port Chicago explosions on July 17, 1944. Secretary Forrestal announced 9,668 claims were filed, with 2,545 property damage and 46 personal injury claims paid, and further congressional the approval recommended for 1,337,380.30 property damage and 68,224.28 personal injury. The explosion involved two ships loaded with ammunition blowing up at a pier, with property damage spreading across nine California counties.
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Washington
Navy
Port Chicago
Calif
Forrestal
Board of
Congress
California
Panama Canal Toll Is Avoided by British Ships
London reports that New Zealand and Australian ships are rerouted to dodge Panama canal tolls. New Zealand vessels will typically circle Cape Horn, while Australian ships go around the Cape of Good Hope and through the Suez canal to reach destinations.
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Panama ‘Canal
London
Ministry of War
New Zealand
Australia
Panama Canal
Cape Horn
Cape of Good Hope
Suez Canal
Minute Make- Ups By Gabrielle
When your head and eyes rate high yet your feet lag, overall efficiency drops. The piece urges foot care and leg massages with lotion to soothe and soften, offering practical comfort advice.
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Gabrielle
Dae Syndicate
WNU
Efforts to Raise Child Labor Age Stalled in 1945 States
The text notes rising dropouts and child labor during school years. Despite proposals to raise the age from 14 to 16, progress stalled in 1945 with Illinois alone adopting the 16-year standard. Other states like California Delaware Michigan Tennessee faced no decisive votes or failed bills.
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Legisla
Illinois
Rome
California
Delacangia
Michigan
Tennessee
Film world gossip and career moves in 1940s Hollywood
Long itemized montage notes coaching by Miss Collier for Paulette Goddard, other actors like Teresa Wright and Jennifer Jones, and casting chatter from Columbia, RKO, Monogram and Republic. Mentions Hale of Al Jolson biopic, Becket, Dillinger on Ice, Orson Welles on politics, and ongoing radio and screen work across studios.
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Onstance Collier
Paulette Goddard
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette
Miss Collier
Mary Pickford
Norma Shearer
Claudette Colbert
Teresa Wright
Niven Busch
Jennifer Jones
RKO
Dorothy McGuire
Teresa
Paramount
Ray Milland
Columbia Pictures
Scotty Becket
al Jolson
Becket
Home care tips for aluminumware and fabrics
Salt can pit aluminum cookware and should not be stored with salty foods. Add salt only after water boils or food is in the pot. Do not soak clothes overnight as dirt may redeposit. Rub match marks on painted surfaces with a cut lemon. Worn linoleum may be revived with a commercial repair paint.
We Find Books for You Ad by C. C. Giese Co.
Bookshop advertises locating scarce titles with promised pricing. It invites readers to write the book title and author sought, with no obligation, from C. C. Giese Co., 128 Light St., Baltimore.
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C. C. Giese Co
Light St
Baltimore 2
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Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co
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Norway
Hartford
Conn
Hollywood
Joe Kaufman
Kane Richmond
Barbara Reed
Rebel Randall
Kaufman
Bonita Granville
Monogram
Belita
Dillinger
Ice
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Republic
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The
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Harold Diddlebock
Wafitlcsanis
Berg
Charlie McCarthy
Howard Free- le
Spee King
Monsieur Ee
Parky
Napa
Ilka Chase
Lawrence Brooks
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
St.Joseph Aspire
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertown
BF Goodrich
Vicks VA
Fleischmann
America
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Venware
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