Marriage Fear Shapes Teen Choices in War Era Advice
A New York Youth Consultation Service staffer counsels parents on teen marriage anxiety driven by wartime population pressures. She urges framing marriage as a career, continuing education, and practical rewards to keep girls focused on self development and future home planning.
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Tenarero
New York City
Whch
Poland Gains Danzig and East Prussia In Potsdam Map
The map illustrates postwar adjustments agreed by the Big Three. Poland receives Danzig and part of East Prussia while Koenigsberg goes to Russia. Areas previously Polish before the war now under Russian control. Final boundaries to be set in the peace settlement.
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Potsdam
Poland
East Germany
East Prussia
Russia
Koenigsberg
Danzig
From Clinton Youth to Baby Chick Tycoon
A Clinton Missouri high school senior wins a prize set of White Plymouth Rock eggs on a Frisco demonstration train. He rents a hen to hatch 13 chicks, expands into poultry, reads extensively, ships chicks by mail, and grows into a major producer selling six million baby chicks in 1943. Royal Booth becomes a wealthy man.
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Frisco Railroad
Clinton
Railroad Section
Plymouth Rock
Agricultural Department
Washington, D. C
Clinton, Mo
Royal Booth
Nail Straightening Device Revolutionizes Hollywood Studio Work
Hollywood studios failed to act on nail shortages until Twentieth Century Fox assigned veteran George D. Hulbert to solve the problem. He built a floor machine from available parts that straightens 30,000 nails daily at about ten dollars in cost, replacing slow handwork.
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Gome
Motion Picture Studios
Hollywood
Twentieth Century-Fox
George D. Hulbert
Cabinet changes and rationing updates in wartime Washington
The article reviews President Truman’s cabinet reshuffles since taking office April 12 and lists updated posts including Byrnes Vinson Stimson Forrestal Schwellenbach Wallace Anderson Ickes Clark. It notes potential expansion with a Secretary of Welfare and Security and outlines ongoing 1945 46 rationing and new No 5 ration book and gasoline coupons.
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Washington, D. C
Truman
Roosevelt
Edward R. Stettinius
Francis Biddle
Frances Perkins
Labor
Claude R. Wickard
Agriculture
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Treasury
Frank C. Walker
Mr. Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Henry Stimson
Navy
James Forrestal
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Commerce
Henry Wallace
Clinton P. Anderson
Interior
Harold Ickes
Tom C. Clark
Keesinge
Fruman
Department of Government
Social Security Board
Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
War Mannuver Commission
United
Chester Bowles
Office of Price Administration
War Weary Live Again After More Than 29 Years
Japanese captives Dorothy Ludlow of Lexa Arkansas Clara Bickford of Tivoli Texas and Verna Henson of Long Beach California celebrate release after 29 years in captivity. They wish for ice cream sodas as a first treat.
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Dorothy Ludlow
Lexa
Arkansas
Clara Bickford
Tivoli
Texas
Verna Henson
Long Beach
California
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