Wartime rationing and labor updates across foods and industry
The Office of War Information outlines wartime ration changes including meat and sugar points, butter value cuts, and new indefinite stamps for several staples. It notes reduced hog prices ceilings, poultry price shifts, and seasonal producer premiums, plus lumber needs and farm labor shifts to meet 1944 output. It also covers corn disposal to government, cheese allocations, auto and bike availability, and maternity care statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Price Administration
CPA
War Manpower Commission
WFA
OPA
Department of Labor
Labor Department
Tit For Tat Patient and Doctor Exchange
A patient complains of mysterious pain with uncertain location and duration. The doctor prescribes an unspecified remedy with unclear dosing and timing, offering no explicit explanation or diagnosis.
Lights of New York by JL L Stevenson
A collection of brief columns and vignettes from New York City life including cultural notes on foreign students funding studies in America, a humorous anecdote about an opera singer, a shift away from light noon meals to multi course lunches, street scenes from Madison Avenue, and a light end-piece about a subway mishap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lights of
New York
JL. L. Stevenson
Bietiefields
America
Lewisohn
Alexander Sved
Metropolitan Opera
Hotel Dorset
Sved
Johnny Long
Armando
Madison Avenue
West 54Th Street
New Goggles Aiding Gunners Trace Bullets in Daylight
Southbridge Mass article notes American Optical announces military goggles with red lenses to help gunners follow tracer bullet paths in daylight. The device lets shooters estimate miss distance and aids pilots in adjusting to darkness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southbridge
Mass
American Optical Company
Witty 85 Year Old Keeps Working 65 Years
Benjamin Dousman of Chicago aged 85 marks 65 years with the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroad. He arrives at his desk at 8:30 a.m. to work an eight hour day and vows to keep going, noting past party celebrations at 80 and hopes to reach 100 as with a prior colleague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Benjamin Dousman
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company
Dousman
Johnny
Horan
Tax delinquency notice for Denison property in Grayson County
Citation lists Harvey M Farrow and heirs, Pearl Farrow heirs, and all interested parties as delinquent in taxes on property in Denison as South Highland Addition lots 2 and 3 block 2 and lot 1 block 1 with unpaid taxes for years 1929 onward. Court in Texas Grayson County seeks tax collection and lien enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
Grayson
Harvey M. Farrow
Pearl Farrow
South Highland
Denison
Tax Foreclosure Suit for Grayson County Property
The State seeks $65.73 in taxes plus penalties interest and costs for land delinquent since 1942. Proceedings target foreclosure of tax lien with a July 1 1944 court appearance in Sherman Texas to defend and show cause why judgment and sale should not be rendered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioners Court
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Sherman
Texas
A. D
A.D
S. V. Earnest
District Court
Nancy Drake
Ss. V. Earnest
Also Mentioned on This Page
Office OF War Information
East Coast
Corn Belt
War Department
War Production Board
War Food Administration
Department of Agriculture
Stephens & Bryant Insurance — Real Estate
Empire State Building
Waco
Lone Star State
Gamin
Phillips H. Lord
Bell Syndicate
WNU Features
U. S
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mobileil
G. C. Stateville
Jenny
Community Public Service Company
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