California dazzles visitors with Golden State showcase
The United Nations Conference in San Francisco drew praise for how California hosted delegates and reporters with tours of farms, shipyards, and industry. Banks and businesses sponsored hospitality, while exotic foods and books highlighted the state. Reconversion Day arrives quietly as auto production ramps up, signaling cars and road transport remain central to postwar America's economy.
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Cooperation and resilience in wartime express service
The piece extols cooperation within the railway express agency and across American business as essential to meet wartime shortages and rationing. It notes service must adapt to gas rationing, rubber limits, and equipment constraints, urging toleration and teamwork to maintain dependable consumer delivery and support the war effort.
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Planes Replace Mules in Mining Prospecting Era
Denver reports a shift in mining toward airplanes and color films to locate ore deposits. Referred to as the science of aerology, this postwar advance uses high speed color films to improve prospecting, building on wartime developments to speed discoveries.
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Denver
Soldier of Today Larger Than Dad
Ninth Service Command headquarters announced a comparison of army clothing sizes noting World War II soldiers are taller slimmer and have larger feet and heads, reflecting shifts in body dimensions over time.
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Ninth Service Command Headquarters
Louise Morrell Spiritual Psychic at Ocean Avenue
Mrs Louise Morrell operates as a spiritual psychic offering problem solving guidance at 518 Ocean Ave Seal Beach. She presents herself as a clairvoyant advisor and claims to brighten troubles through spiritual insight and personal sessions.
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U S Employment Agency Adopts Saturday Noon Close
U S Employment Service offices nationwide will close at noon on Saturdays under a War Manpower Commission 44 hour week. Long Beach manager George Toll announced the schedule effective immediately, noting the move does not solve manpower problems and that wartime duties remain heavy in the Long Beach Los Angeles Harbor area.
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Evolution by John Banister Tabb
A poem fragment showing transformation from shadow to spark a slence to a lark and heart rapture to pain, with life returning from dead ashes in a dawn like image.
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Tabb
Flying Presidents Washington Flight Record Shrinks
Franklin D Roosevelt limited air travel to foreign trips while Harry S Truman has already flown coast to coast and plans to use planes routinely at home and abroad, signaling a shift in presidential travel patterns.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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