Cost of Living Stabilizes Amid War Time Prices
A weekly roundup notes the cost of living index stopped rising for the first time since June 1950 with food prices about 0.2 percent higher than last month. The piece details casualties in Korea, Truman’s home town focus, and beef price rollback efforts plus Red Cross clubmobiles serving troops in Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Labor Statistics
White House
Truman
Price
Michael V. DiSalle
House
Senate
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Korea
U.S
Main Street
House Agriculture Committee
MacArthur
United Nations
RED Cross
American Red Cross
Red Cross Club
Pusan
Asia
Farm Manpower Problem Shows Little Improvement Across Nation
Reports from many regions indicate no gain in the farm manpower situation with draft boards deferment limits and industry drawing away workers. The nation faces mobilization like a war with the fewest farm workers ever, many limited to simple hoe work and lacking agronomy and machinery training.
Rug Care Tips and Cleaning Advice
A compact guide covers cleaning spills on rugs and fabrics. It advises vacuums for talcum powder, damp cloth blotting, drying mud on non washable items, soaking washables, and cautious use of cleaners including alcohol and oxalic acid. It ends with a note on snowball doughnuts made from biscuit mix applesauce nutmeg and eggs.
Honey Equipment for 200 Bee Colonies and Farm Machinery
Classified items include honey producing equipment for 200 to 300 colonies with a 4 frame extractor and tanks, ten stands, double hives, a Model A Ford truck, and terms available. Also listed are a 160 acre Grade A dairy farm near Woonsocket South Dakota with Holsteins, a 1948 TD 14 International crawler tractor with dozer, help wanted for ring shows, and a political radio promo with lumber prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca
Sioux City
Iowa
Farm Machinery & Equip
R. E. Herman Mfg, CO
Faulkton
South Dakota
L. A. Payer
Wagner
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Bradley
DiSalle
Lawrence Gaines
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Langley
Aeronautical Laboratory
James Jabara
Wichita
Sinuiju
North Korea
Rudolphe Holley
Augusta
Edward Fletcher
Cranston
John A. Pittman
Tullula
Miss
Pittman
Chapeau
Matthew B. Ridgway
Far East Command
Tokyo
Lewis Hickey
Los Angeles
REDS
Gian Carlo Matteotti
Italian Socialist Party
Hollywood
June McCall
Anna Held
No-Man
Business & Invest
OPPOR
Woonsocket
G. B
D. A. Parsons
Cass Farm
New York Mills
Minnesota
Art B. Thomas
Lennox
S. D
KWAT
West Coast
Gilbert's
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Wuron
Pierre
Aberdeen
Mitchell, Lemmon
Mobridge
Yankton
St: Joseph
Carroll S. Heydt
N. Penn St
Allentown
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Mich
Bishop
WNU
Rae Se
Ana
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