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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1918
Page
6
The piece explains how a labor sector strain shifted hiring toward a science of employment management. It details the War Industries Board and related efforts to professionalize the role, train managers, and align workers with factories to boost production efficiency and morale.
New Jersey farmers may tap world markets for apples dairy stock and other farm products via the United States merchant marine and State Department programs. Markets abroad in South America Europe Africa are highlighted with basic-price ear lot purchases arranged through the market bureau. The plan includes insurance seed stock schemes and freight efficiency aims by rail and motor truck networks to boost long distance farm trade.
Captain Treadway warns New Jersey influenza victims to avoid exertion as experts from the Public Health Service place five investigators to survey local conditions. He stresses larger health budgets and a coordinated offense to prevent further losses and ensure proper convalescence and return to work.
In Evanston Illinois a Scottish party shows how jazz wins hearts abroad. Highlanders, impressed by jazz bands, turn a second hand shop upstairs into a ballroom with help from Mr Hollinshead and the YYMGA. Scots then meet local girls as the ship’s jazz band plays American rags, launching a string of dances.
A garbled excerpt describes a German merchant and guests at his daughter's wedding, with a dangerous omen resembling Damocles’ sword. The text contrasts a hidden peril with visible danger, noting only the host perceived the risk at that moment.
The Federal Board for Vocations establishes offices in major cities to accept applications from disabled soldiers and sailors of the American army and to fund free education for the vocation best suited to each. Locations include Washington Philadelphia New York Atlanta St Louis Dallas Denver Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Seattle Boston. Staffed offices will assist applicants.
The article outlines that disabled veterans will receive 65 dollars per month plus funds for education sent to chosen institutions or used for training in any desired industry. Family allowances for wife and children are fixed based on active service income. After training, the Federal Board will arrange employment, and ongoing compensation from War Risk Insurance will not be reduced by earnings.
A vivid report recalls American Army bakers in France during 1917 1918. Capt Ward highlights a bread factory near Dijon supplying up to 510000 pounds weekly while facing wartime shortages and trench conditions. Bakers endured flooded trenches and ovens with signs reading No Fishing Allowed as they fed troops.
The force at the army bake shop exceeded 2000 by August end, with each section branding its bread. Bread from Capt Ward’s bakery fed 8,000 to 10,900 soldiers weekly, while canteens served coffee with milk and sugar. Five tall containers line the outside, guiding rapid cup filling as trains of 1,200 to 1,000 men arrive. A sign warns to use cups and not drink from spigots.
A military wireless telephone system let ground controllers hear aviators clearly above engine noise. Col. Culver in Washington and John D. Ryan oversaw production with tests at San Diego. The device, used on western fronts, could transmit voice over several miles, aiding air operations and baffling German forces.
In a flooded engine room the pilot grapples with crushing pressure and rising water. He opens a valve to admit water, equalizing pressure, finally forces the hatch and ascends to the surface where a destroyer picks him up.
Mrs Fred Zweifel of Grant Hospital last week after illness with Haflu is reported to be in a serious ton.
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