Post Office Weighs Safe Low Cost Mail Notes
The Post Office proposes a postal-note system to transmit small sums by mail with notes in 10 cent 50 cent 1 dollar and 50 cent multiples up to 10 dollars plus five cent adhesive stamps for odd cents. Notes valid two months and non transferable, aiming to cut money orders and coin mailing. Senate action expected on house passed bill. costs could rise to six cents or drop to three cents.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Senate Post Office Committee
Post Office
Nks
Star General
Department
Liberator Limited Preview of Future Airliner Revealed
San Diego noted aviation advance as Consolidated Vultee discloses the model 39 a 50 passenger luxury liner the Liberator Limited The craft features a cylindrical fuselage halfback wing from the Liberator bomber tricycle landing gear a giant lounge like interior and options for a 24 passenger version with berths and a potential bar Built on postwar military tech and poised for peacetime use in air travel
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San Diego
Cal
U.P
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Liberator Limited
Pratt & Whitney
Liberator
David R. Davis
Hollywood
Consolidated
Aeronautical
Liberators
NorwaysNutrition Crisis Reported By Commerce
The U S Department of Commerce told the House Post Office Committee that most of Norway’s population faced undernourishment with scurvy common last winter. Meat and butter rations were scarce while potatoes were plentiful, and only the post office provides universal money transmission. Banks and similar services exist mainly in cities, towns, and along railways.
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Norway
U. S. Department of Commerce
House Post Office Committee
Post Office
Old Friends Cross Paths In Marshalls
Dan Bowerman reports from a Marshall atoll where a San Francisco Press Club reunion unfolds at Snuffy Snedeker’s hotel. Lt Cmdr Logan Jenkins notes ties to El Centro publishers, and war correspondent Dan McGuire arrives sharing a five dollar debt.
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Marshalls
Dan Bowerman
The
Snuffy Snedeker
States
Old Home Week
Shepheard
Cairo
New York Public Library
Press Club
el Centro
Calif
Cmdr
Logan Jenkins
USNR
Snuffy
Snedeker
Dan McGuire
United Press
Berkeley
Atoll
Navy flier and friends pass through local hotel
A young Navy lieutenant (jg) and two companions, all overnight guests, stopped at the transient officer's mess for breakfast while traveling. The group includes a Medford high school football alum now serving as an officer in the Army ski troopers. The hotel, once built by the Japs, recently came under new management with William Snedeker in charge.
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Navy
Bill
Medford
Ore
Snuffy
New
Ft. Huachuca Infantry Day Observance Planned
Ft Huachuca schedules Infantry Day events hosted by the 92nd division on Thursday. Maj. Gen. E M Almond, division commander, and other officers will participate in tribute to the foot soldier Johnny Doughboy during the observance.
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FT. Huachuca
Johnny Doughboy
92Nd
E. M. Almond
Early Morning Greetings and Awards at Division HQ Parade
Staff greet guests at division headquarters before a 10 a m awards ceremony and parade of troops followed by exhibitions and demonstrations. A Williams led baseball game appears in the program.
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Division
Foor
Williams
Lavoptik Eye Relief Ad Claims Quick Comfort
An old advertisement promotes Lavoptik for sore eyes with soothing formula and an eye cup included. Claims prompt relief for burning or irritated eyes and money-back guarantee, praising thousands of satisfied users.
Geld and the 365th Infantry at Fort Juachuca
A schedule shows Geld and the 365th Infantry at Fort Juachuca in the afternoon. A USO show at night ends the program.
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Ment
William Snedeker
CBM
Los Angeles Examiner
Dobek
Power & Home Equipment CO
East 9Th ST
KRAFT
General Tire
General Tire CO. OF
Tucson
George Cowden
Indec H. Ashley
Moroun
Tidmarsh
Wash
D. C
Office of Rubber Director
O.P.A
Baum
Adamson
B. F. Goodrich Tires
Klaylolitas
America
Laundry & Dry Cleaners
Merck
Ioy
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