Food prices and policy notes in wartime China and US
An article outlines wartime food prices in Shanghai with beef at 20.24, pork 27.50, eggs 1.87, milk 4.84 per pint and other items. discusses the Truman veto of the Flanagan Ty dings farm workers amendment, its impact on essential labor, and anticipated food shortages. It cites sugar, meat consumption trends, and the broader push to feed Europe amid lend-lease and Allied demands. It also notes France's demand for a million-man army and cotton textile priorities, highlighting tensions between war needs and civilian supply.
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China
United States
Shanghai
Europe
France
War Administration
County Commissioners Proceedings and Finances 1945
The board notes salaries for county staff, clerical payments, insurance policies, and supplies. It records refunds for protested payments on SW 21-13-3 and SW 31-13-3, and approves multiple insurance policies and a lease amendment for land in Polk County Nebraska. The meeting adjourns to June 5, 1945.
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Osceola
Nebraska
Board of County Commissioners
Polk County
County General Fund
L. M. Albrecht
Carleton Anderson
John I. Anderson
BAMC
Overland Sand & Gravel Co
Same
Joel Hanson
United States
Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa
Donald D. Johnson
Travelers Insurance Company, Byers and Pierce
Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Limited
Mercantile Insurance Company of America
Bruce Pickett
North Range
Owen Mecclung
John S Anderson
Local Residents Visit and Family News Across Town
Local families plus visitors frequent Hastings and Hampton gatherings. Aurora’s Mr and Mrs Raymond Werth spend Tuesday with relatives. Gordon Fossberg AMM 3 c of Chicago stays with sisters in Hastings. Mr and Mrs Richard Widge and daughter visit Raymond Sundberg and daughter Friday evening. Birth announced for a Willits girl on May 18 in Buffalo New York.
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Raymond Werth
Aurora
Gordon Fossberg Amm
Chicago
Illinois
John Adams
Maxine Upton
Hastings
Richard Widge
Raymond Sundberg
Minnie Smith
Marie
Art Dose
Hampton
John Adelson
Hennie Seymour
Alvin Smith
Henry Sandell
The
Baptist Church
Lemke
Louis Willits
Buffalo
New York
Berniece Anderson
Irma Nelson
Phyllis Freeman
Helen Nelson
Osceola News World: Property sells twice in Osceola
A south Osceola residence tied to the C O Johnson estate sold for 300 under court order, then resold for 865 with Dan Magnuson the high bidder. The report notes a long-delayed POW mail card to the Buchholz family and local marriage license action for Mildred Grossnicklaus.
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South Osceola
C. O. Johnson
Dan Magnuson
Walter Buchholz
Chester
L. M. Merrick
Mildred Grossnicklaus
Henry Grossnicklaus
Shelby
John Behrns
David City
C R Peterson
Lincoln
Raymond
College of Dentistry
Rob Nuquist
Ericson Nebcame
The School Lunch Program and Sanitation Practices
Wartime conditions push more families to rely on school meals as guardians of daily nutrition. Proper sanitation for food handling, dish sterilization, and insect protection are stressed, with the Division of Sanitation promoting courses and community measures to safeguard meals in all districts.
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Division of Sanitation
State Department of Health
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Congress
Flannagan
Tydings
Hershey
Truman
House
Special Committee of the House
Thunderhead
Ginger Rogers
Joseph Cotton
Shirley Temple
OF County Commissioners
Burroughs Adding Machine Co
Phil B. Campbell
Elsie Cole
Roy W. Erickson
the Garrard Press, Supplies Co
Harriet Johnson
Dorothy Jones
K-B Printing Company
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co
Olive M
Helen McCormick
L. M.errick
Methodist Church
Maurine Schuman
Ruth Shustrum
Felix Stachura
Cccsscecceive Co
J. Stephenson
Hackberry
Lillian Timm
Clerk County Court
Wee
Travelers Insurance Co
Esther Wagner
Mary E. Carlson
Alary
Edith Heilman
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company
Anderson Mercantile Co Food
Tomer
Ji. Christensen
H S Eklund
J. D. Headman
W R. Kepner
Nelson Dairy
Stromsburg
Owen McClung
Milo Chapman
Roy BE. Hartson
Lincoln Road Equipment Co
Harper Peterson
Polk County Implement Co Vee Yaerene
Edward Schlesinger
A. S. Nelson— Gamble Stores
A. J
Robert Miller
Overland Sand & Gravel
Polk County Implement Co
S. J. Harless
City of Stromsburg
Night Cramer Oil Company
Clifton E. Johnson
Gust Monson
Beteen
State of
Pues
Rincela
Consumers Public Powet District
Columbus, Bedrasks
Gentienen
Bevs
Arthur Potereen & Coe
Forracka
Dietrich
Hhe
Etatutory
Berraska
Contoiers Garved
Deine
Hebraska
Hedraska
Xeght
State Auditor’s
Ray Johnson
Consumers Public Power District
People of
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W. S. Desch Sons
York and
Central City
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