Reconversion seen as smooth path for industry
Washington journalist notes reconversion progress and forecasts, saying 80 percent of factories will not need major changes. Many will continue civilian production alongside military supplies, with shifts to consumer markets and potential demand growth beyond 1920 levels for two to three years. The piece spotlights Burl E. Sherrill of Peru Indiana, an inventive entrepreneur who built a compass factory for military use and now pivots to civilian products with no mass restructuring.
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W Service
Union Trust
Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Uncle Sam
John Q
Washington
Burl E. Sherrill
Peru
Ind
Sherrill
Shere
University of Chicago
Indiana
Erts
Carnegie Institute
Army Engineers
The
War College
Maritime Commission
Sherrill Ampins
Gromise
Homesteading Opportunities In Alaska For Veterans
Veterans are urged to study Alaska homesteading rules and land options, with Alaska offering vast yet challenging chances. The interior notes that a three year occupancy, adjustments for service time, and priority rights aid veterans. Nonmineral purchases and fur farming potential are described, alongside Alaska climate variety and tourism growth prospects.
Barbs by Baukhage O'felal gavy bulletin satire
A satirical bulletin mocks government chatter on Navy transport of monkeys, westward shifts from the Hudson, a congressman quip about Mississippi, rising horse meat sales, and a tainted note about a high officer awarding a medal for saving a woman from a runaway horse two years earlier.
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O'felal
Navy
Thidla
Atredal
Dam Projects Could Create A Million Jobs
The bureau of reclamation outlines 400 proposed irrigation and power projects across the United States to be funded by Congress, mostly in 17 western states. The program could place up to 1,000,000 workers at peak, with 450,000 hired in the first year, as materials from 31 states are sourced for construction and related work. Veterans may gain priority settlement on public lands linked to these projects.
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Union
Continental Army
Grant
Pershing
United States Department of the Interior
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Continental
United States
Alaska
Department of the Interior
Seward
Russia
Europe
Asia
Virginia
Arctic Circle
Aleutian Islands
Geological Survey
Bureau of Mines
Maska
Washiquor
D. C
Congress
Bureau of Reclamation
Maine
California
Bureau
Wear
U. S
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
GOP
Dirksen
OWI
Office of War Information
Turkey
Lke
American Presse
War Food epicenter of egg and poultry black market
Washington faces a wide scale poultry and egg black market with talk of freezing stored eggs. WFA and OPA under scrutiny as G men probe Delaware Maryland operations. Officials warn of losses to legitimate dealers and potential political fallout in Delaware. Dirksen lauds OWI abroad. Hopkins makes progress with Russia on Polish affairs. Chicago Mayor touts strong service center for veterans and Philippines ties loom in state and interior budgets.
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Washington
War Food Administration
J. Edgar Hoover
Delaware-Maryland
Delaware
War Food Administraton
OPA
Clifford Sheriff
WEA
Army
Gordon Sprague
Shedd
Sprague
New England
New Jersey
North Carolina
Tim Stitts
Anderson
Food Committee
Stitts
Hopkins
Stalin
Moscow
Mikolajczyk
London
Kremlin
Chicago
Ed Kelly Atti Funs
State
Interior
Philippines
Notes on censorship and war era wit in public life
A column excerpt discusses censorship of a naval operations piece with a changed word from debutante to society girl, and includes a wide array of quotations and notes from figures like Joseph Golinkin, W. E. Barrett, Damon Runyon, and H. L. Mencken. It covers global politics, American leadership, and wartime sentiment with satirical quips about Nazi Germany, Patton, Doolittle, and cultural figures, reflecting pulpy press features of the era.
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Joseph W. Golinkin
Pacific Fleet
New York
W. E. Barrett
Panin
Damon Runyon
Broadway
Prima
Hitler
Anon
Europe
Paul's
Adirondacks
H. L. Mencken
Publicants exclusive land area totals by region and survey status
As of time 30 UMA lists 37 507 090 acres outside grazing districts and 120 660 351 acres within grazing districts, totaling 168 236 947 acres. Some western portions remain unsurveyed, a fact illustrated by the diagram showing unsurveyed area ratios across states.
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UMA
Im Inet
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Imentater
Roosevelt
Ted Gamble
Treasury
Fred W. Johnson
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Richard Bean
C. S. Army
Newport, N. H
Joseph J. Joiner
U. S. Navy
Atlanta, Ga
Mildred H. Dietrich
WAVES
St. Nassauz
Wisc
Interior Department
Baukhage
Hudson
Mississippi
WFA
Minnesota
New York City
India
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Dirkwen
Harry Hopkins
Tai
Syria
Boston Gazette
Josef Stalin
Congressional
State and
Noonan
Internal Revenue
Bell
Fb.i
Galeburg
Germany
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannin
Goebbels
Jannings
Ernst Lubitech
Lubitech
United States Immigration Department
Los Angeles
Patton
Doolittle
Patton and
Adolph Berle, Jr
Brazil
Argentina
Ed Pauley
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Bob Han Regan
LaGuardia
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Naval
John Mason Brown
Ernie Pyle
Ernie
Langford
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