Town and Farm in Wartime World War II era items summarized
Wartime guidance warns motorists against using gasoline for nonessential winter trips under OPA rules. TVA pages note fertilizer price ceilings for tenant farmers and no extra tax-free cigarettes rationing. Veterans’ jobs reported. 60,064 veterans placed in September. 12,492 disabled. Wickard warns against inflated farm land prices and foreclosures. McNutt calls public cooperation to aid doctors amid rising demand and physician fatigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
United States Employment Service
War Manpowers Commission
America
Claude R. Wickard
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
Thanksgiving Turkeys and Army Canned Chicken Highlight War Food
A wartime column recalls long Thanksgiving turkey lines in New York and praise for the Army’s distribution of turkeys abroad. It argues strong civilian demand will return after the war and promotes canned and frozen chicken as a popular, practical product for home kitchens. The piece ends with a soldier’s cartoonish letter about shell bursts while writing to his sweetheart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Radio City Theater
Army
Tom Anderson
George Miller
Louis Getz
Heubner
Humorous Civil War Era Exchange and Dentists
A farmer estimates a five mile trek to an army camp for a weary recruit. The exchange features humor about marching loads and hearing bullets, ending with a joke about a dentist. The dialogue uses dialect to deliver light war era banter.
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