Tank war diary from the Siegfried Line frontline
Lt. Meador describes tank battles, infantry support, and pillbox assaults as US forces break the West Wall. He notes German resistance, battlefield hazards, and the human cost, then shifts to life in a German chateau with Dutch nobility and American aid efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Wall
Hitler
Essen
New York
U. S
Germany
Vicomte van Aefferden
Vicomptesse van Aefferden van der Does de Willebois
Nederlands
Cotton Purchase Plan Sets Parity Prices for 1944 Crop
James L. Ladd announces CCC plan guaranteeing full parity payments to upland cotton farmers for the 1944 crop whether or not a government loan is in place. The CCC will buy all eligible cotton through June 30, 1945 at middling 15/16 inch basis Memphis rates: Oct 21.90, Nov 21.95, Dec 22.00, Jan 22.05, Feb 22.?? Placeholder from OCR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Commodity Credit Corporation
James L. Ladd
Grayson County Aaa Committee
CCC
Memphis
Tenn
CCC Announces Cotton Purchase Program Parity Prices
The plan adds five cents monthly to prices through June, funds storage and carrying charges, and mirrors 1944 loan program premiums. Local banks and warehouses as purchasing agents will be approved by CCC, buying at CCC prices with receipts due in 10 days. An agent fee of 50 cents per bale is CCC payable. Purchases limited to 1944 cotton producers stored in CCC warehouses. farmers may repay loans to sell. The move enforces Congress backed parity prices for cotton.
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CCC
Battleship Oklahoma Decommissioned After Pearl Harbor
The battleship Oklahoma, sunk and later salvaged after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was decommissioned last Sept. 1 per Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. The vessel, damaged by torpedoes and bombs, was salvaged and placed in drydock in December 1943 after an action-filled war record.
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Pearl Harbor
Oklahoma
Chester W. Nimitz
Big
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Joe T. Meador
Whitewright
Denison
Jerry
Air Corps
Dempsey
Alabama
Dempsey Cafe
Men’s Union
Stetson
T. W. Ayres & Son
Carter
Marion R. Smith
Pascal Farley
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah’s
Colima
Manton Fain
West Davis
Dallas
J. L. McSpedden
J. F. Spindle
Tom Barbee
Robert England
The
Methodist Church
Manning & Meador
Karo Maxey
Desert
Highway 78
H. M. Gentry
Box 51
Texas
Social Security
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
Preston Everheart
American Legion
Legion
George Hansard
Congress
Kingston Drug Store
Rexall
Benchcraft
O’coats
Linxwiler’s
W. Main Denison
S. Travis Sherman
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