Truman White House dialogue on living simply
A playful exchange between President Truman and Bess about living in a smaller, cozier White House. They debate kitchen setups, personal touches, and resisting the grand traditions while imagining a more homely, comfortable residence.
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Iwo Jima
Truman
John H. Bradley
Appleton
Wis
Henry Morgenthau
Rene Gagnon
Mass
Ira Hayes
Bapchule
Ariz
White House
Trumans
Bess
Mrs. Truman
Harry
Old
Missouri
Wickard Foresees Postwar Agriculture and Rural Electrification
Wickard envisions family owned farms in a postwar economy with full farmer prosperity. He cites Farm Security loans, REA electrification, and a broader rural reform plan funded by a half billion dollars to electrify and improve living standards, including social security for farm workers and rural communities.
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WNU
Washington Bureau
Union Trust Building
Claude F. Wickard
Department of Agriculture
Carroll County
Indiana
Farm Security Administration
World Peace Organization
Wickard
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Hot Springs
House of Representatives
Organization For the United States
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Secretary of Agriculture
America
Senate
Scott Lucas
Ill
Agricultural Appropriations Act
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Mosquito Research Sparks Sportsman’s Skepticism
Elmer Twitchell discusses a Cornell physician Dr Morton C Kahn who traps mosquitoes and records their love songs to lure swarms for extermination. Twitchell protests the method while a crooner mosquito is killed as a dramatic aside in a lighthearted column.
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Elmer Twitchell
Cornell
Morton C. Kahn
Make Your Own Outdoor Furniture Patterns
Simple weekend project to build a bench two large chairs and a child chair using three stock widths of lumber. No fancy tools required. Removable backs allow easy storage and movement. Patterns 278 269 253 include cutting diagrams materials lists and construction steps each 15 cents postpaid. Order by number with name and address.
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United States
San Francisco
Stettinius
Vandenberg
Bloom
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Chatsworth
Calif
Coontz
Berlin
Red Army
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New York
Chicago
Germany
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
Esther Stolnick
Brooklyn
Barney M. Giles
Army Air Forces In
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Millard F. Harmon
Ira A. Baker
Army Air Forces
G.I
Alfred Lilienthal
New York City
American Veterans Committee
Clad L Phillips F
Kansas City
Washington
Claude Wickard
Walter Shead
Twitchell
Skeeter
Elmer
Matthew J. Connolly
Clinton, Mass
Jimmy Reinsch
Atlanta, Ga
Jimmy
Matt
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
McKesson & Bridgeport, CO
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville
Tenn
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University Products Co
Delmar Blvd
University City 5
University Products Company
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Niversity City 5
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