Reciprocal Trade Debate Shapes Postwar Policy
Washington column argues reciprocal trade accords support world well being and European recovery. It warns against Gearhart bill weakening trade ties, noting Marshall's stance and GOP contrasts in 1948 conventions.
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Chambers of Commerce
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Chamber of Commerce
The New Look Revolt Against 1940s Dress Rules
Women rail against 1948 fashion, denouncing moon-swept skirts and balloon silhouettes. The piece quotes a skeptical housewife urging thrift and sensible style while mocking designers and calling for action at the United Nations to curb fashion coercion.
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America
Time to Turn Luscious Berries into Tender Jellies
Guides on planning and canning berries into jams and jellies with small-batch methods. Includes berry combos with rhubarb, jelly recipes, apple and currant options, and step by step processing for safe storage.
The Dove
A cryptic verse hints at reconciliation through Henry Wallace while excluding others. A repeated refrain centers on Mr. Wallace Hank and a single candied date as a point of peace. The speaker notes sweetness and lack of malice but refuses all others.
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Hank
Henry Wallace
Gasoline Ad Offer and Bathing Costume News
Quent Parker shifts to high test gas and weighs a cash offer to appear in a magazine ad as a distinguished gasoline user. Tootsie Benham receives a 1948 bathing costume. A Hunter College musical suite centers on an appendix operation with muted strings and woodwinds portraying the patient and surgeons.
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Quent Parker
Tootsie Benham
Hunter College
Pointers for Making Jams and Jellies
Lynn offers guidance on using broken or under ripe fruits for jams. He notes that overripe fruit lacks pectin and stresses pre cooking fruit to develop pectin before adding sugar.
Jam Making Precautions and Sugar Guide
The guide warns jam can burn if not stirred from bottom and cooked briskly with care. Avoid long simmering to protect flavor and color. Do not add excessive sugar. when not using commercial pectin use three quarters of a pound of sugar per one pound of fruit.
Peasant Table Pattern No 17 Offered by East Bird Co
A full pattern for a Peasant Table promises easy construction for porch lawn or dining use. Trace the lumber, saw and assemble per diagram with no special tools or skill, with a matching lawn bench from Pattern No 57. Send 25 cents to East Bird Pattern Company Pleasantville NY.
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Pleasantville
New York
Baby Gift Misfit Reveals Cocker Spaniel Baby
Two Terre Haute classmates in a Indianapolis elevator trade life updates. Paul Hartwig mentions a newborn girl at his house. Mrs. Parker sends a wool sweater for the baby but learns the child is actually a registered cocker spaniel.
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