Wartime Town and Farm Supplies and Policy Updates
War Information Office notes stamps and rationing details for meats fats blue and sugar. Sugar stocks fall and beet sugar boosts aid. 38 and over men reclassified. farmers to get 495000 shotguns and rifles. WPB reports toy production changes and German war news. Dutch famine and oil stock declines outlined. nine hydroelectric generators approved for postwar power restoration.
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National Selective Service
Director of Selective Service
War Production Board
WPB
West Wall
Federal Communications Commission
Netherlands
Aneta
WFA
Army Medical Department
Red Cross
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington
D. C
Army Nurses
U. S
Machines Cut Cost of Cotton Below 10 Cents
On Hopson Brothers plantation in Coahoma County Mississippi the use of tractors cyanamid dusting by airplane flame throwers and machine picking lowered cotton production costs to under 10 cents per pound. A single 80 acre block yielded a bale per acre with seven mechanical pickers outperforming a traditional eight bale gin. County agent Harris Barnes warned that only mechanized farms may survive the cotton era.
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Clarksdale
Miss
Hopson Brothers
Coahoma County
Hopson
Harris Barnes
Red Tape Delays GI Loans Under Rights Law
Washington reports delays in implementing the G I Bill of Rights loans for home farm and business purchases. VA regulations missing have stalled guaranteed loans for over 1.25 million eligible veterans. Banks and lenders wait on formal rules while officials urge correct understanding of the program’s 50 percent guarantee with a $2000 liability limit.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Veterans’ Administration
Rural Electrification Plan Outlines $585 Million Program
Oklahoma City Secretary Claude R. Wickard says the Rural Electrification Administration plans a three year post war buildout costing about $585 million. The plan targets nearly all REA counties for expanded or new systems and would create over 600000 man years of work nationwide.
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Oklahoma City
Claude R. Wickard
Rural Electrification Administration
Danish Circus Performer’s War Dance Stopped by German Officials
German authorities halt further showings of a new war dance by a Danish circus performer. The routine features a simple sequence of one step forward followed by two steps backward.
The Spice of Life and a Pitcher’s Pride
A series of light anecdotes spans European morale jokes and US tales. A Danish and German patrol joke births a peace dream. Lt Gen William S. Knudson recalls losing a year’s salary in a dollar a year role. A canvasser’s question meets a woman’s firm political identity. Night in New Jersey ends with a skeeter plan that backfires. A seven year old boasts in class. A hypnotist husband defends humor over cruelty. An insurance heir’s son proclaims big batting with a miss and a gleeful strike.
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William S. Knudson
General Motors
Washington
General Knudson
New Jersey
Jersey
Skeeter
Woman Recounts Fashion Temptations Before Conversion
A woman testifies to a spiritual awakening during an evangelist meeting. She recalls chasing worldly fashions and adornment, admitting silks satins and laces were her deadly sins. She says she surrendered those luxuries to her sister to avoid perdition.
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Perdition
Small town man attends show then seeks eye treatment
A gentleman at a city convention went to a strip-tease with companions and later visited an oculist claiming red sore eyes. The doctor advised blinking during performances so he would miss little.
War worker warns dull village billet stirs soon
A recently transferred war worker complains of dull village life in the local square. An elder answers that in a week or two the countryside will be stirred by ploughing, signaling a coming rural change. Whitewright merchants offer better values.
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Zur
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Office OF War Information
War Food Administration
Midwest
U.S
Santa Claus
G. I
Petroleum Administration
Times
Lester Haile
Whitewright Lumber Co.eighborly Service
Greater
Germany
Tommy
Sonny
Dad
Whitewright
L. LaRoe & Co
George
Joe
Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc
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