Seven Fat Years and the War Time Food Machine
Washington dispatch describes how the Agriculture Department shapes American and world eating habits during WWII. It traces the move from NRA era policy to a new AAA and Agricultural Adjustment Agency, detailing food production, lend-lease shipments, rubber substitutes, and war garden efforts, with focus on farmers, policy shifts, and federal guidance guiding what Americans and allies eat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Considine
International News Service
Lorresmpadral
Washington
INS
Department of Agriculture
Super Ferrers
United States
United Nations
Considine
NRA
New Aaa
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
América
Defense
Department
Rhany Civilans
East Indies
Pearl Harbor
Forest Service
Tt Iy
Tay
Victory Gardens
Baghkud
Tts Forest
Brazil
Isis
Private Breger Abroad 19308 Warns on War Effort
A 1940s Washington article examines U S grain, meat, and dairy lend lease to Allies, detailing how farmers, processors, and the Agriculture Department mobilized food shipments and farm practices to support the war, including costs, distributions, and the shift from provincialism to wartime efficiency under Claude Wickard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department
Retaliation in Denver Leads to Confrontation
An internal Teverise agent confronted a woman about her income tax, startling her with the demand. She responded by fainting, reportedly tipping the scales at 295 pounds, raising questions about the incident and its handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Teverise
Gliders Cut Jap Burma Life Line In Burma Air Ops
Gliders land near a valley airport in Burma as Allied air and ground forces coordinate with Cochran. Gliders face rough takeoffs and night landings with some crashes, while paratroopers and engineers work with Indian troops. Capt. Tulloch sets up aid posts. dawn funeral services honor the fallen. Commandos, drawn from decorated airmen, operate under Andrew T. Robert and William H. Taylor.
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Tet
Cochran
Burma
Donald
Tulloch
Ogdensburg
Gaps
Cormez F. Enice
J Commandos
Andrew T.robert
Barrington
Wiliam H. Taylor
Washington, D.C
Bond Set in $1355 Theft Case Involving Elderly Woman
Justice of the Peace Bat Corrigan set a $2500 bond Friday for Fausta Fierros fifty five? years old? of 1104 Chihualms Street charged with theft of 1355 from a neighbor. The preliminary hearing revealed Fierros and the complainant Jovita Gonzales carried 2850 in coins and bills kept in a lard can, with 1455 subtracted, from place to place. Gonzales, who planned a divorce, said she saved money at home and wanted a lawyer, while a couple named Pierrot advised keeping 1200 for legal costs. The remaining funds were in Fierros' home, and Gonzales later found 1855 missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace
Bat Corrigan
Fausta Fierros
Chihualms Street
Ierros
Jovita Velascus Gonzales
Chihuahua Street
Pierrot
Col
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Purse Snatching Report from Chicago Woman’s Paper Trail
Mrs Janel Scar reports her purse snatched in Chicago with fifty dollars in currency, six dollars in ones, a seventy eight dollar check and personal papers. A neighbor found the purse in a backyard after it was dropped and the check later appeared in her mailbox in the original envelope.
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Chicago
Janel Scarbrough
Scarborough
Wielder of Rolling Pin Commended by Judge in Omaha
In Omaha Neb Judge Berry Wheeler praised a year old girl for striking her former stepfather with a rolling pin, saying she followed his old fashioned advice against abusive men. Meanwhile Mrs Kate W DeLong of Spiper Utah Canadian born, 83, claims a knitting record of 60 sweaters for soldiers of the United States Britain and Canada.
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Omaha
Neb
Muricips
Berry Wheeler
Cve Bden
Wheeler
Spiper
Utah
Kate W. DeLong
Britain
Canada
Soviet Move Chief Topic Moves in Diplomatic Circles
Washington reports a question in diplomatic quarters about Russia recognizing the Badoglio regime in Italy without consulting the United States and Britain. The undersecretary of state plans to London for talks, and Anglo American policy on the French committee of national liberation looms as a likely discussion point in the broad open talks Hull described.
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Washington
Russia
Badoglio
Italy
United States
Britain
Stetlinius
London
Committee of National Liberation
City News Dance Listings in March Events
Danes Hill Top hosts a March 18 dance with Turkey Trotters Orch and Danes Hill Top, followed by Helotes Inn and Ways Inn Boerne events on March 18 with Hartmann Orch. Ben and His Fleyboys perform at the Adv venue as listed.
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Danes Hill Top
Sat
Turkey
Trotters Orch
tAdv
Doe Hartmann Orch
Boerne
Sab
Ben and His
Dragraph
KTSA
KMAC
Kono Kaeo
Wings
World Today
Yanks Sportacast
West
Asona
Mus
Patik Rubin Aloha
Marx Marx
Serenade Amn
Cizco Kid Fennygrama
Boston
Sym
Boston Sym
Mit
Parady Am Dance
Serele
Stan Read
M. Dol
A. Gunnison
Vand
Army Forces
Ole Upey
Troubadours
Oncy
Trobadours
Army Forcen
Blue Hour
Eal
Shine Boys
Lance
Bing Crosby
Dorsey
Bie
Bob Ray Benson
J. Dorsey
Il News
Beatherton Carle Orch
Four Sq
San Antonio Due In Warner Series
Warner risks flag imagery for American movies with San Antonio as a Texas Alamo themed project. Errol Flynn stars under Raoul Walsh, who recently signed a long term Warner contract. Walsh's Texas opus follows a string of hits. Other industry notes include Rita Hayworth's Burlesque at Columbia, Elyse Knox and Tommy Harmon public engagement, and various casting and production whispers from major studios.
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Louella Atutlon
Tut Hollywool
Warners
Jack Wartner
San Antonio
Texas
Alamo
Errol Flynt
Raoul Walsh
Errol
Walsh
Raoul
Elyse Knox
Toenty Harmon
Elyse
Paul Hesse
Try
St. Mary's Chapel
Uiversity of Michigan
Marine
Elves
Wings
Tommy
Wiliema Field
Kunz Awarded Silver Star for Gallantry
Herman Kunz a Fredericksburg infantry technician repaired a leaking communications line under hostile fire earning the Silver Star. The award notice notes he is son of August Kunz of Fredericksburg and lists other honors for Williams Mills and A J Melencon Jr. and cites Irvin Cobb's death leaving most of his estate to his widow.
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Herman Kunz
Fredericksbutrg
Fifth Grace
War Department
August Kunz
Fredericksburg
Gol. Williams I. Mills
Laredo
Legion of Marti
Milne Bay
Kiriwina Island
A. J. Melencon Jr
San Antonio
Europe
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Pee
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Et Pulont AE Hemnurs & CO
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Teanepontation
Englien
Ad Wersane
Rouge
Bepreecatalte Yell
United States Employment Service
TechaelSee
Private
Breger Abroad
Jevid-lease
Claude Wickard
Okd
Losee
Wickard
Indiana
Purdue
New Deal
Wes
Wallace
Lovice
Wielder of
Rolling Pin
City News
K. F. Hall
Mares
Village
Josef Meier
Wamm
Warner
Colunthia
Rita Hayworth
Ant
Barbara Stanwyck
Hal Skelly
Paramount
Witch Skelly
Columbia
Joan Crawford
Edie Gouldings
Eddie
Mildred Pearce
Joan
Dad Oakie
Twentieth Century-Fox
New York
Guy Bolten
Jack
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Hollywood
Helen Erickson
Phil Berman
Light
Shirley
Temple
Moss Hart
Jian Gastle
Fulton Lewis
Amdus
Chorge Toblag
Townsend Nether
Athens
Luise Rainer
Holly Wood
Mother Superior
Maria Mooney
F. B.C
RCA
Patrice Munsel
Alfred Drake
Say Blackton
KABC
Kunz
Cobb
Irvin S. Cobb
Laura Baker Cobb
KIT Kat Klub
Vincent Villa
Spearbes
Roy
Clyde V. Hickerson
Baptist Temple
Daytt Jacobann
Teravle Beth el
Robert E. Tweey
Archbighon
San Antonio Municipal Auditorium
Nnadmission
An Astonio Open Forum
National Conference of Christiane and Jews
Fred Macmurray
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