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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1945
Page
11
An editor notes that US command altered the invasion plan for Kavieng and Yap in the Pacific, delaying operations to protect troops. Plans shifted last minute to Leyte aiming at the Philippines, meeting uncertainty and limited reactions as transports prepared for movement.
Misread ad style copy warns of athlete's foot from damp feet and perspiration. It promotes Alien's Foot Base with deodorant action claimed to kill fungi and keep feet odorless, urging readers to use it for care and comfort.
Page Sixteen features discuss a Georgia victory in a tribunal ruling. The piece argues state governments hold vast powers to protect citizens, fight monopolies, and encourage industrial decentralization despite public laziness. It criticizes sluggish state action and urges stronger use of state authority.
A passage discusses the dangers of monopolies within a democracy and urges decentralization of industry. It argues that state action is needed to keep production facilities in operation for peace and prevent consolidation that would reduce productive capacity. The text emphasizes preserving American economic strength during reconversion.
County Farm Bureau reports a slight potato yield this year with about two percent loss due to beetles and vine disorders. Pest damage affects more than two thirds of some fields while market conditions and scarce forage hinder planting of wheat rye and other grains during a dry period.
The article recalls a judge’s remark denying a law against killing a Chinese person and critiques a Boston dispatch about Senator Claude Pepper and a covert warning before Pearl Harbor. It questions whether a public threat to attack without warning justified Japanese aggression and reflects on anti Japanese sentiment.
Washington weighes price ceilings for new houses as reconversion leaders like Potter and Blandford outline options. OPA and housing officials warn limits may be needed to curb inflation while boosting construction, with Truman possibly deciding soon and Snyder carrying the issue to the president.
The War Production Board weighs lifting the wartime construction moratorium and restoring full industrial activity. The issue centers on housing materials, price ceilings, and allocations tied to war housing needs, with a likely policy fix anticipated by year end.
A garbled UPI ad near a Texarkana restaurant lists a nonsensical offer titled Tee Pisce and Meet and Eat in Heat 2b Per Cent Ceveller inside causing confusion among passersby.
A quirky report from Stork Wins Pardon describes a car owner who freed his old bus from the shed to rush his wife to the hospital as a stork story unfolds. The piece mentions McMenville Oregon and a Ryder family moving from Denver years ago, with an old electric bulb packed in a trunk as a curious note.
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