Married Women Earning More Than Ever Before
For the first time married women with paying jobs outnumber single women, says Paul C. Glick of the U.S. Bureau of Census. Since 1940 there has been a 50 percent rise in working wives. Now the husband is the sole provider in only three fifths of marriages. Most working wives have either no dependents or school-age children only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul C. Glick
U.S. Bureau of Census
Glick
California
Sunkist
The Rifle Buy That He Could Not Afford
Jud longs for a rifle costing thirty dollars and faces his family’s frugal decision. After emotional strain and a farm crisis, his father offers a plan to earn the gun, testing obedience and growing up. Jud finally retrieves the rifle, while memories of his sheep Pete Blackie and Joe haunt him.
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Jud
Son
Pete
Blackie
Joe
Aud
Yad
Golf crown of nerves hardest punishment in sport
The discussion centers on which sport inflicts the toughest punishment, with Tommy Armour arguing golf delivers the worst mental and nerve strain. He cites golfers like Bobby Jones Walter Hagen and Bobby Cruickshank, notes the yips and sleepless nights after Open triumphs, and recalls Travers's nervous wreck after 1915 U.S. Open victory.
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Armour
Bobby Cruickshank
British Isles
Black Watch
Bobby Jones
Jack Hutchison
Hagen
George Low
Jerry Travers
Baltuston
Travers
Jivin Your Jeans Styles With a Teens Party Theme
Nancy Pepper details a denim fashion trend called a jeans party for teens. Readable tips include Sissy Stuff with cut off jeans and eyelet trim, clipped accents using clothespins, wasp waisted scarves, gold plated belts and accessories.
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Elmer
Ray Milland
Embroidered Kitchen Towels Pattern 718
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept offers Pattern 718 for six motifs on 6x7 inch towels. Includes charts photos and concise directions to simplify needlework. Enclose 20 cents and send name and address to 564 W Randolph St Chicago 80 IL.
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
1948 Consumer Finances Report Warns of Rising Debt
The Federal Reserve Board's 1948 survey shows Americans buying homes and cars faster than production, increasing indebtedness. Savings declined, 3 million savers with bonds in 1947 lacked them in 1948, and more spending occurs on credit. One fourth expected to spend beyond income.
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Federal Reserve Board
General Quiz Answers and Notes From Classic Series
A compiled Q A list covers facts on human bones about 200 to 206 when including ear ossicles, the U S geographic center Kansas, hair similarity to fingernails and other keratin structures, vast Antarctic ice enough to blanket the world about 120 feet, traffic signals first used in 1868 London, and a claim that nylon moths attack is false with moth proofing claimed.
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Kansas
London
England
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BEN _REISDORFF
David City
Nebr
Sears New Styles
Leonard Fitch CO
K. E. Lookabaugh
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Lincoln
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State
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Resino
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the Fiction Corner
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Bobby
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Richmond Country Club
Joe Louis
Louis
Walter Hagen
Dempsey
Bronko Nagurski
Grace Null Crowell
By Nancy Pepper
The
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South Pole
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Ly Ae
Met
Sane
Fleming-Hall Tobacco Co., Inc
Bass
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Wood Manufacturing Company
Meretry
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