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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1945
Page
6
King Aboglagbu of a Dahomey region wears a nostril filter after Jaw forbids breathing the game air, creating a tense custom among his subjects and authorities.
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes the Red tide driving into eastern Germany, the burning of villages to deny resources, and German refugees flooding back as Himmler expands the volks sturm. In the Pacific, U S forces advance on Clark Field near Manila, facing fortified Japanese resistance with naval and artillery support.
The War Manpower Commission tested a voluntary plan in Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware to move workers from nonessential to essential industries. Unneeded workers would gain jobs in essential fields or risk losing referral cards and potential draft orders. Congress consideration of work or fight legislation would shift less essential workers to critical jobs via local draft boards with penalties for noncompliance.
The War Production Board will grant priority to factories making work clothes children’s wear and underwear from cotton wool and rayon. The Office of Price Administration plans to cut clothing prices by six to seven percent by tying costs to the first half of 1943 levels. OPA warns the clothing bill’s 1939–1943 rise endangers anti inflation efforts while WPB aims to curb luxury items and maintain affordable essential garments with quality controls.
Government agents seized 50,000,000 fake red meat coupons worth 500,000,000 points in a Chicago apartment tied to Gaetano Polito and his family. The nationwide counterfeit ring allegedly held 2,000,000,000 total points, with $2,500,000 value at market prices. Bail set at 25,000 each for Polito and his wife and two sons.
When a bottle is empty punch holes in the cap to use as a sprinkler for clothes. Soak a cloth in kerosene and place it in the clock back to quiet ticking. To prevent doughnuts from burning, insert a raw potato piece into hot fat.
Economists note that official 1944 U S net farm income about 12.4 billion dollars may be misleading. The real farm income equals receipts minus business expenses, not total sales of crops and livestock plus farm inputs.
Dairy outlook notes absence of seasonal adjustments in ceiling prices. Prices received by farmers likely decline less than usual while production payments stay at record levels, at least through the first quarter of 1945. Milk output in early 1945 is expected to stay at the record rate of 120 billion pounds in October and November.
President Roosevelt sought Jesse Jones's resignation as Secretary of Commerce to install Henry Wallace, triggering Senate debates on separating multi billion dollar lending operations from the department before confirming the ex vice president. Wallace, a New Deal liberal favorite, framed the role as boosting employment via private business under federal credit programs.
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Examination of a captured German V-2 rocket in Belgium shows similarities to early American rockets by Robert H. Goddard. The weapon, once thought a mysterious vengeance device, was reportedly fired high above the earth and tracked to more than 60 miles altitude.
Folding clothes as evenly as possible before running them through the wringer helps cut ironing time, a tip emphasized for indoor drying days.
In a fatal blood feud, a family in the Albanian mountains loses its last male. The eldest daughter renounces marriage and dons trousers to lead the household and continue the vendetta as its head for life.
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