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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1944
Page
2
A long, reflective piece describes widespread economic pressure in Our Town with plumbers needing many helpers, bricklayers quitting for blacksmithing, and laborers demanding high wages. It notes shortages, extended hours, and inflation hitting small businesses, including druggists, restaurants, roofers, and planters, all amid a wary public and adjusted expectations. The tone parallels wartime strain and lingering price gouging concerns.
Allied forces pressure the German high command on the western front as US Sixth Army under General Simpson and Hodges barrage the Siegfried Line. Allied drives reach the Saar and Rhine front while German resistance collapses in heavy weather and strategic bombing.
The report covers US forces pressing Japanese troops on Leyte in the Philippines with encircling maneuvers, while a hurricane hampers advances by flooding bridges. It notes Chiang Kai-shek consolidating government power in China, B 29s targeting Kyushu, and price wage controls debates with NWLB.
Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell reports amid World War II logistics strain that Allied demands push up tonnage and cargo. In the year ending June, 1 500 vessels carried 40 million tons, with 60 percent to Europe and 40 percent to the Pacific. Troops faced shortages of heavy artillery, munitions, trucks, tires, and tractors as modern warfare requires five tons of material per soldier to start and one ton monthly maintenance. US lend lease to Russia included 115 000 trucks and 8 090 combat vehicles, including 2 000 tanks. Twenty two thousand personnel faced courts martial during the year, the lowest since the last war.
The Bond Fire Club at Consolidated Valley Corp in Mia Bla organized a bond burning event. Twenty seven employees participated by throwing securities into the flame, marking renewed support for war bonds. Treasury Department cites legal prohibition against burning securities.
The report says production of light trucks will resume in January after suspensions in 1942, with 30,000 units planned for the first three months of 1945. The move aims to quicken America’s transport system and support farmers who purchase half of such vehicles, while steel and other materials quotas rise for rails, box cars, and passenger cars to sustain wartime needs.
British families will receive temporary bungalows to be occupied for up to ten years at $2 weekly rent plus taxes. Each unit includes a long kitchen, two bedrooms, a bath, and shed, with electric or gas heat and hot water. Erection is government funded up to a third, managed by local authorities for rent collection and upkeep, while permanent postwar housing development proceeds. Farm incomes in early 1944 rose sharply, with projections showing a record harvest year ahead.
War era sewing pattern features an entire doll wardrobe including nightie coat jumper blouse and dress. Size 12 to 20 inch dolls with patterns 8707 and 8625 for various outfits. Instructions note fabric yardages and wartime material restrictions.
A historical tally notes that from 1802 to 1834 West Point graduated about 13 000 men, with more than 7000 alive and serving in the army today.
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