Food Control Committee Shapes War Time Rations
The piece details Marvin Jones and a White House drive to curb war food orders by forming a coordinating committee led by Leo Crowley. It discusses shipping limits, UNRRA constraints, and the need to balance home consumption with lend-lease aid while maintaining war production and preventing shortages as armies advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marvin Jones
White House
America
UNRRA
Jones
Uncle Sam
Mother Hubbard
Army
Navy
Leo Crowley
Shipping Administration
France
Belgium
Europe
Pacific
Asiatic
London
Paris
Sten
Remagen
Ludendorf
Normandy
Crowley
Food Administration
American Life Insurance Marks 100th Anniversary with New Actuarial Table
In its centennial year 1945 American Life Insurance adopts a new mortality table reflecting longer life expectancy. The Guertin commission and state laws drive the shift, affecting future policies while in force plans and current rates stay largely unchanged due to lower investment returns and higher operating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Life Insurance
Elmo Scott Watson
Western
Union
Alfred N. Guertin
New Jersey
John S. Thompson
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Newark
N.J
Actuarial Society of America
M. Ds
United States
U. S
Europe
Ben Miller
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Ben
Pres
James Polk
Mutual Benefit
Robert L. Patterson
Robert Patterson
Berlin Volksturm Quiet Times Warned By Broadcaster
A Berlin broadcast notes the Volksturm has largely ceased fighting while the U S FCC reports a Japanese transmission praising Manchurian projects The Finnish premier seeks a Russo friendly basis and the curfew loosens for restaurants serving war workers to boost essential industry participation
New York Picture Postcards of Dawn in the City
Vivid sketches of New York scenes from night to morning. Crowds, bars, Broadway, Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building, and the Hudson. Civil defense workers, soldiers, train announcers, and fans mingle with cafés, ferries, and dawn light over streets and bridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Rockefeller Center
Hudson River
Empire State Building
Midtown
Brooklyn Bridge
Easy to Make Your Upholstered Chair Pattern No 250
Instructions describe building a simple upholstered chair from scrap or old boxes with a wooden frame, cotton batting padding, muslin cover, and optional feather or kapok filling. Pattern No 250 includes diagrams, a materials bill, and construction steps. costs are minimal.
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Washington Digest
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, DC
Alexander Hamilton Institute
Sanusry
Messrs Guertin
Ulpianus
Edmund Halley
Halley
Breslau
Silesia
Broad Street
Stock Exchange and Sub- Treasury
Customs House
New York City
Life Insurance
Baukhage
Berlin
Volksturm
Federal Communications Commission
Manchuria
Russia
Brooklyn Docks
Wall
Ferry
Fifth Ave
10Th Ave
Sixth Ave
App
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hill
B. F. Goodrich Co
Rumber
Oregon Forest
Bfgoodrich
NCR
Talon
Gar
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