Army Promotions Based Upon Existing Vacancies
Analysis explains how Tables of Organization govern promotions in the U S Army at home and overseas. It contrasts enlist ed and officer paths, notes time in grade rules, and details battlefield exceptions where vacancies permit rapid advancement.
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London
States
T. O
U. S. Army
T. C
Tain
John Jones
Jones
War Department
Tg. O
Smith
Peterson's Ointment Fame Spreads Nationwide
In 3c boxes or 60c tubes with applicator, Peterson's Ointment offered quick cooling soothing relief from piles. A Buffalo druggist created the ointment whose popularity grew across the country, with money back promise if not delighted with relief.
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Buffalo
Peterson
OPA Explains Uniform Excise Tax Rules for Jewelry Watches
District OPA authority outlines how retailers must separately state the new 20 percent federal excise tax on jewelry fur articles leather goods and toilet articles. The order covers advertising catalogs and receipts and requires clear tax notation on price tags and pages.
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OPA
Rensselaer County- Troy City
Troy Area
Tax detail guides on pricing and luggage excise changes
The notice explains how retailers must show the 20 percent retail excise tax on luggage selling prices and that the tax is now assessed on the selling price rather than the ceiling price. It covers tagging requirements, uniform practice in stores, and handling of inventory after April 1 1944 with potential pass-through of the 10 percent manufacturer tax. It also provides lettuce growing notes and seed timing for spring and summer crops.
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OPA
Albany Oil Index Guides Winter Budgets
The Albany District Office of the Office of Price Administration released its weekly fuel index as a budgeting guide for oil rations. Fuel oil users in the area should not have burned more than 84 percent of their yearly allotment as of today per district director Lester W. Herzog.
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Albany
Office of Price Administration
Lester W. Herzog
Legion Drive Nets 9 552 Records
Noble Callahan Post 237 American Legion with public and school cooperation has collected 8552 old phonograph records. They were shipped to Columbia Recording Co Bridgeport Conn to fund National American Legion Old Record Fund. Proceeds will fund new records for armed forces and hospitals after 11 955 posts contribute.
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Noble Callahan
No. 237
American Legion
Post
First Street
Willard E. Bonesteel
John E. Heenan
Harry C. Stevens
Alexander King, Jr
Noble-Claahan
Columbia Recording Co
Bridgeport
Harry O. Stevens
Alexander C. King, Jr
William M. Burke
Richard McGlynn
William Dwyer
George Krum
Governor’s Island
New York
Did "Diamond Jim" Have Stomach or Ulcer Pains
An advertorial query suggests Diamond Jim Brady would not have eaten so voraciously if pained after meals. It promotes Edga Udga Tablets claiming relief from indigestion gas pains heartburn and acid problems with a double money back offer on the first dose.
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Diamond Jim
Diamond Jim Brady
IOPA Removes Ration Stamp Expirations
The Office of Price Administration eliminated expiration dates on all red and blue ration coupons to simplify procurement for about 40 million housewives and 600 thousand retailers. The change, not a panic move, follows prior removals for shoe coupons and sugar stamps. Redemption rates remain unchanged with red stamps valid on every second Sunday and blue stamps on the first of each month. each stamp carries ten points.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Dallas
Tex
Central Bans Liquor Sale on Crack Trains
New York Central Railroad announced the discontinuation of hard liquor sales on its crack trains during the war. The Empire State Express from New York to Buffalo Cleveland and Detroit and the Mercury from Chicago to Cleveland via Detroit will stop liquor sales in lounge cars to favor regular passengers. Dining cars also halted liquor service to conserve resources.
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New York Central Railroad
Empire State Express
New York City
Buffalo
Cleveland
Detroit
Mercury
Chicago
New York Central Keeps Wines and Beer on Dining Cars
A wartime casualty slows meals as diners rush to eat. The New York Central continues selling wines and beers on the dining car, while other trains of the line remain unchanged.
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New York Central
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