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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1943
Page
3
Wartime ration guidance covers gasoline sugar stamps coffee and shoes with validity dates through fall. Third War Loan launches September 9 for fifteen billion dollars while fats and oils allocations rise. Home canning safety guidance and mass mailing of War Ration Book Three are noted along with shoe and tire production changes.
South American governments exchange dollars for U S gold at about 60 million dollars monthly, about 2 million daily. Gold outflow began last October as Treasury stocks slipped from 22.755 to 22.333 billion by July 28, due to purchases funded by dollar balances from economic warfare expenditures.
President Roosevelt named Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes as agent for sale and distribution of surplus electricity from the Denison Dam project in Denison Texas. The order also moved authority over Grand River Dam and other projects from the Federal Works Administration to Ickes and authorized War Secretary Stimpson to operate Denison Dam.
Washington reports a seven dollar per ton rise in the cotton seed ceiling from forty nine to fifty six at the gin. Senators Bankhead McClellan and Eastland announced the price revision to aid southern farmers amid rising production costs. The new ceiling matches the cottonseed meal ceiling, with Oklahoma Texas and New Mexico at fifty five dollars per ton.
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