Big Business and Government in the United States
A Western Newspaper Union piece analyzes United States Steel's scale and impact, detailing assets, sales, wages, materials, taxes, and dividends to illustrate big business’s role in the economy. It argues a two party system with government control would fail and condemns excessive regulation as a threat to American citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel
Standard Oil
New Jersey
General Motors
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Uncle Sam
Poultry Black Market Prompts Egg Freezing Talk
War Food administration weighs freezing stored eggs as G men probe Delaware Maryland poultry black market. Delaware WFA official loses release authority. Gordon Sprague takes charge of poultry releases amid concerns of irregularities. OPA price ceilings under scrutiny as dealers hoard eggs. Minnesota creameries face egg shortages while illegal channels move eggs to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
J. Edgar Hoover
Delaware-Maryland
Delaware
OPA
Clifford Shedd
WFA
Army
Gordon Sprague
Shedd
Sprague
New England
New Jersey
North Carolina
Tim Stitts
Anderson
Food Committee
Stitts
Minnesota
New York City
Notes on censorship and wartime commentary across cities
A wartime column collects notes from officers and critics about censorship shifts in a New York piece, satire from Boston on l affaire Syria and Stalin, quips from Damon Runyon and H. L. Mencken, and a roundup of U S military and political figures. It references Joseph W. Golinkin, Patton, Doolittle, Jannings, Lubitsch, Hoover, and debates over pay raises and immigration. The piece spans Washington, Salzburg, Los Angeles, and Brazil, noting legislative and public sentiment during postwar 1946 debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Golinkin
Pacific Fleet
New York
L'Affaire Syria
Boston Gazette
Josef Stalin
Homesteading Alaska Draws Interest From Veterans
The Interior Department notes veterans from World War II may gain extra rights for homesteading in Alaska. Applicants face three years residence, with military service credited, and 90 day early filing priority. Alaska’s vast lands offer 160 acre nonmineral or five acre homestead options, fur farming potential, and rich mineral resources, but require cautious, steady development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Continental Army
Grant
Pershing
United States Department of the Interior
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Department
General Land Office
Exxservicemen
Continental
United States
Alaska
Department of the Interior
Seward
Russia
Yho
Europe
Asia
Virginia
Arctic Circle
Aleutian Islands
Geological Survey
Bureau of Mines
Washington, D. C
Dam Projects Could Create A Million Jobs
The bureau of reclamation inventory outlines 400 irrigation and power schemes across 17 western states that could employ up to one million workers nationwide at peak. The program would supply materials from 31 states and support returning servicemen through priority settlement and homesteading on certain sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Bureau of Reclamation
Maine
California
Bureau
Unsurveyed Lands and Acreage in 1944 Public Lands
As of June 30 1944 remaining public lands outside certain acquisitions totaled 37 567 096 acres. Within grazing districts 130 669 351 acres remain and unsurveyed areas in western states are depicted by a diagram showing their ratio.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wawa Hy
Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
America
England
Germany
Hitler
U. S
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
OWI
Office of War Information
Turkey
India
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Stalin
Moscow
Mikolajczyk
London
Kremlin
Chicago
Ed Kelly
G.I
State
Interior
Philippines
W. E. Barrett
I. Panin
Damon Runyon
Broadway
Prima
Anon
Paul's
Adirondacks
H. L. Mencken
Congressional
Treasury
Noonan
Internal Revenue
Bell
F.B.1
Salzburg
Emil Jannings
Goebbels
Jannings
Ernst Lubitsch
Lubitsch
United States Immigration Department
Los Angeles
Patton
Doolittle
Adolph Berle, Jr
Brazil
Argentina
Ed Pauley
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Bob Hannegan
LaGua ‘Ia
N. Y
John Mason Brown
Ernie Pyle
Ernie
Langford
Dist. Att’y Hogan
O.W.I
Fred W. Johnson
Richard Bean
U. S. Army
Newport
N. W
Joseph D. Joiner
U. S. Navy
Atlanta, Ga
Mildred H. Dietrich
The
WAVES
St. Nazianz
Wisc
Interior Department
AOA
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!