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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1942
Page
2
Innocent Bystander quotes Kitty Carle urging theater orchestras to perform the national anthem in a lower key. She notes the aria’s wide range makes it hard for audiences to sing and cites a Roxy theater recording in E flat as too high, proposing G as a singable alternative.
A New York City newspaper piece urges motorists to extend tire life amid rationing. It notes past wasteful habits, cites test-car driver antics, and highlights proper inflation, avoiding under and overinflation, pinching, bruising, and overloading as key to longer life and safe recapping.
A British wartime bulletin notes the key defense against bombers is fighter planes, not anti air guns. Ground batteries disrupt bombers by driving them high and off aim, while guns of three inch bore or more target high flying craft and rapid fire guns defend dive bombers at close range.
The article notes a severe scrap iron shortage harming steel production with nine Youngstown furnaces idled. It describes OPM scrap drives in Erie Boston Pittsburgh Bridgeport and Akron, urging farmers to gather scrap behind barns and basements to avert broader war production cuts.
National Association of Manufacturers surveyed 961 country editors. Results show 41.6 percent see local waste, 67.1 percent cite state waste, and 67.1 percent flag federal waste. Editors offered concrete savings figures for local 17.9 million, state 207 million, and federal 114.4 million. Calls to cut WPA relief, AAA, NYA, and CCC camps.
State College report notes federal planning and federal cooperation with Penn State and 144 engineering schools to train reserve personnel for war industries. Penn State offers courses at Pittsburgh steel mills and a Schenley distilling company among other factories.
Washington reports food production at high records with the strongest consumer buying power in years. Government data indicate factory wages up about 40 percent above 1935-39, while food prices rise roughly 10 percent, and farmers receive about 30 percent higher prices, boosting overall purchasing power.
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