Notes of an Innocent Bystander Front Page Fantasy
Walter Kerr reports from Moscow as the Reich rushes reserves to the front and cannot mount a promised spring drive. He notes Goebbels complains of dwindling tricks and attacks the Times slogan as propaganda. The column surveys wartime journalism, religion, industry, and New York life with vivid vignettes and sharp quips.
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Walter Kerr
Moscow
Reich
Fuehrer
Goebbels
Times
U .S
Mark Twain
Price Control Affects Millions Under Roosevelt Plan
Chicago readers weigh how the price control bill signed by President Roosevelt will hit family budgets. Mrs John Q Public, the major shopper, contends with higher costs for food clothing and rent while the price administrator Leon Henderson can fix maximum prices on essential commodities to curb inflation and protect households.
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Chicago
Ill
Roosevelt
John Q
United States
John Q. Public
Public
Leon Henderson
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Price ceilings outlined by Office of Price Administration
The article explains how Leon Henderson plans maximums on consumer prices using October 1941 as a baseline, with 110 percent caps where applicable. It notes rent controls in defense areas, penalties for profiteering, and allows purchasers to sue over overcharges. Wages, salaries, insurance, utilities, and several services are exempt.
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Hitler
Liberty
General Motors
C. F. Kettering
Movie Radio Guide
Nation
de Valera
Etre
U. S
Ireland
Pierre J. Huss
Adolf
America
Fuehrer
Coller
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Pic
Confucius
Lloyd C. Douglas
Bob Landry
William C. White
Daily Mirror
von Clive Howard
Charles Bonner
Wilkie Mahoney
Dale Collins
Iife
J. Broderick
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Henderson
United States
Atlantic
Standard Oil
Navy
Maritime Commission
Defense
Michigan
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
General MacArthur
Price control statement urges end to hoarding
Secretary Claude Wickard and Leon Henderson publish the price control act remarks. They say past hoarding was misguided, markets require stabilization of living costs, and that Americans should not hoard or waste food as staple supplies reach record or near record levels.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Mules and Horses Making Comeback
War time auto restrictions and rationing push a revival in horse and mule use. Reports from the South and West show renewed breeding and sales as gasoline limits and tire shortages boost demand. Decline began in 1920, but the Horse and Mule Association of America helped slow the drop.
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America
Sam
South
West
Horse and Mule Association of America
Europe
Belgium
United States
Sinking of the Normandie and wartime shipping debates
The article debates the Normandies conversion for war use and why its upper decks could not support aircraft. It also analyzes Atlantic tanker sinkings, naval strategy, and wartime economic and political shifts, naming Lehman, Dewey, Heil, Wiley, LaGuardia, and other figures.
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Washington, D. C
S. S. Normandie
U. S
Dakar
West African
Suez Canal
Atlantic
United States
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
North Atlantic
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Dawn
Grand Central
Plaza
Tenth Ave
Fifth Ave
Cliff Lange
Western Newspaper Union
Lst
Henderson-Wickard
Herbert Lehman
Lehman
Tom Dewey
G.O.P
Wisconsin
Julius Heil
Sen
Alex Wiley
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York City
Trenton
N. J
General Electric Company
Treasury Department
Customs
Wright A. Patterson
Congress
Russia
Germany
Japan
Italy
L. D. S. Relief Society
D. C. Tanner Company
Salt Lake
B. U
Broadway
Beauty School
School OF Beauty
Cultu Quish
Eatuibiee
South Main Salt Lake City
Uiab
Ihcerentin
Otarion
Otarion of
McIntyre
Lake City
Utah
Turkey
Pullorum
Salisbury
Murray
Salt Lake City
Raleigh Cigarettes
North Pole
Ecclesiastes
HOTEL
Ben Lomond
Ogden, Utah
Coffea
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