Food and labor shifts in wartime Britain and Allied fronts
Lend-lease food largely goes to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union with small shares of beef and veal pork and lamb. About 600 American merchant seamen are POWs in Japanese and German camps. Blinded servicemen must finish social adjustment training before release. Filipinos in occupied areas face compulsory agricultural labor. Chinese civilians recount Tokyo bombing aftermath. Canada reports large military manpower. Germans blame English mines amid propaganda. British women drafted into emergency labor squads as needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
War Shipping Administration
Germany
U. S. War Department
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Tokyo
Doolittle
Royal Canadian Navy
Canadian Wartime Information Board
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Air Force
Whistling for a New Coat Quip Sparks Tax Form Theme
A humorous exchange between husband and wife about tax forms. The wife asks about a new blank form while the husband jokes that it means she may have to keep whistling for a new coat, reflecting light domestic humor.
Pear Upside Down Gingerbread Dessert Recipe
A fragment containing multiple vintage dessert recipes. Includes pear upside down gingerbread with walnuts, baked in a pan. pear bake with honey lemon glaze. Apple Cottage Pudding with apples and sauces. miniature raisin tarts. prune pudding with tapioca and whipped egg whites. all specify measurements and oven temps.
Inflation In China Reaches Fantastically High Levels
Eric Sevareid chronicles China’s wartime inflation with prices exploding from ten percent per month. Currency devalues, basic goods soar, but rice remains price controlled while luxury items flood shops aided by cross border smuggling and wartime demand.
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Chungking
U. S
U.S
China
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Free China
Economic shifts show postwar gains and losses among classes
University of Nanking researchers in Chengtu report big property owners and landlords are as well off or better than before the war. Small landowners see income 10 percent below prewar levels while the laborer peddler class rises about 75 percent. Family incomes in that class have multiplied 38 times with living costs up 22. Merchant-storekeepers fall about 12 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Nanking
Chengtu
Dies says un American activities panel may probe radio truth
Chairman Dies of Texas announces the House committee on un American activities may subpoena radio commentators scripts to verify statements over years. He argues broadcasting firms might allow rebuttals or risk aiding American propaganda if they refuse. He predicts a future showdown and a major issue.
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Washington
Dies
D.-Tex
House Committee On
Congress
A Senior Proposes to Professor’s Daughter
A confident senior visits the professor to announce his marriage proposal to the professor’s daughter. The professor, after a pause, nods slowly and agrees that there might be insanity in the family.
Edible Features Of Turtle Official Notice
Washington reports from the Fish and Wildlife Service on turtles describing edibility and uses. Most turtles can be prepared in soups roasts broils or stews with an eight pound turtle yielding soup for about 50 people. Snappers are commercially important though vicious in disposition. Soft shell varieties are common in the South and the diamond back terrapin is being restored after near extinction. About 50 freshwater species exist in the United States.
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Washington
Fish and Wildlife Service
Atlantic
Fish and Wildlife Station
Beaufort
N. C
United States
Financially crippled hobo seeks aid
A humorous exchange captures a hobo asking for help. The man declines, noting the hobo appears healthy and asks how he is crippled, to which the reply is humorously that the issue is financial.
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French Committee of National Liberation
United Nations
Philippines
Domei Agency
Aneta
Netherlands
British Information Service
Mr. Farmer
Pine
Whitewright Lumber Co
Rabaul
Eric Sevareid
New Republic
India
China National Airways
American Bank Note Company of
New York
Chiang Kaishek
Patriotic Appeal
Uncle Sam
The
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Mobilgas
Mobileil
G. C. Stateville
Sherman Farms
A. Y. Creager Company
M. & P. Bank Bldg
Sherman, Texas
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
L. LaRoe & Co
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