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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
6
Weekly News Analysis reports U S Navy strikes Japan's fleet while Tokyo balks at direct engagement. Allied forces push across Europe amid strategic maneuvers and contested fronts, with analysts weighing costs and potential outcomes.
Axis forces defend Cherbourg but evacuate as American and Allied troops advance along the Cotentin peninsula. Bombers hit Nazi fortifications while Calais rocket-launch sites endure heavy attack. Russians press in on the eastern front and Italians fall back as Allied drives continue toward Warsaw and Berlin. Congress approves veterans rights including unemployment aid, schooling, and loan guarantees, with broader OPA extensions to June 1945 and food stock management details.
German war prisoners near Scotts Bluff Nebraska refused to work in beet fields after pay was shifted from a flat 80 cent daily rate to 80 cents per quarter acre thinned. Lieut Col Clyde Dempster warned of disciplinary action if the strike continued. Employment figures show a 100000 monthly drop in war plant workers since the start of the year, with nonwar jobs unchanged.
Congress will cut appropriations below 100 billion dollars for the year starting July 1 as war material stockpiles and completed outlays shrink needs. Chairman Cannon of the house appropriations committee estimates about 66 billion dollars for the coming 12 months, with roughly 5% billion for financing the national debt. He says post Pearl Harbor spending has passed the hump and will continue to decline regardless of war, after 147 billion dollars and 114 billion dollars in prior years.
County AAA offices will allocate surplus used army trucks to farmers and haulers for the wheat harvest. Only a small percentage will be available, based on need. After AAA certification, dealers buy trucks from the U S Treasury regional office at an appraised price and sell to farmers at or below OPA ceilings.
A government advisory panel urges disposing of overseas surplus as a national asset to gain profit and aid postwar production in devastated countries. It suggests foreign sales may require buyers to purchase new U.S. equipment. The WPB faces a split between Nelson and Wilson over delaying civilian production versus rewarding early resumption by some manufacturers.
Distillers released from industrial alcohol for war purposes may be barred from using corn in whisky production in August due to War Food Administration opposition amid tight feed supplies. They may have to switch to wheat rye or Caribbean molasses with possible wheat limits, while farmers already delivered about 65 million bushels of corn to government programs.
U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia holds district patent rights should not be granted solely to handicap future inventors. A concurring judge warns the decision will prompt major reexamination of patent office practices, especially subcombination claims, in a case involving a canning company.
The article traces the White House’s origins through a mix of nationalities and figures from L Enfant and Hoban to Washington, Roosevelt and Jackson. It notes contests, paint layers concealing the cornerstone, and how names and perceptions of the residence evolved. It adds tales of sit down strikes, diplomatic pay, and staff secrets, plus anecdotes about Carnegie, Wilson, and Jackson shaping the mansion’s form and lore.
An etude is a musical study piece focusing on technique. Blood heat refers to high fever or body temperature indicating illness. Penguins are found in the Southern Hemisphere including Antarctica. James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. Alaska has the longest shoreline among U.S. states. A native of the Aleutian Islands is called an Aleut. Cornucopia means a horn of plenty or abundance. The oldest printed book from blocks with a Chinese foreword is dated 868 CE.
A list provides varied definitions and dates. Items include a musical study of technique a normal human body temperature at 98.6 F and places like the South Pole and Michigan. Also included are the Aleut people the horn of plenty and an ancient year 868.
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