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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1943
Page
3
A fragmented price sheet lists weights and per unit prices for bags and barrels of various feeds and commodities. It includes corn meal feed, bran, old roosters, springers, heavy hens, leghorn fowls, ducks, beef cattle, calves, lambs, hogs, and country butter with scattered numeric quotes and units, reflecting a rural market catalog.
A fragmented price list shows 10 lb and 24 lb flour bags priced from 4.95 to 9.25 per unit, 48 and 98 lb bag rates per barrel, and related cereal goods. Corn meal feed appears with a 4.65 per 100 pounds rate.
December 21 market notes from Baltimore and Chicago show mixed results across livestock and produce. Apples and eggs steady. poultry receipts light for fancy lots, dull on ordinary chickens. butter at 15,000 pounds. Cattle receipts mainly cows with undercurrents steady. hogs steady with best 200-270 lb range around 14.30. sheep nominally steady with lambs 14.00-15.00 and lower grades down. Chicago reports slow, steady hogs with sows down 10-15, cattle strong for fed steers and yearlings, beef cows weaker, vealers unchanged.
Chicago grain futures opened modestly higher led by rye as the government report shows a lower winter wheat yield per acre. Barley slipped, oats steadied, and wheat moved 1/8 to 1/2 cent higher or lower with rye rising about 1/8 to 11/4 cents.
New York stocks weakened irregularly after five sessions without a loss as investors took profits. Prices slipped from a steady open with fractions to points. Notable gainers included Francisco Sugar and Cuban-American Sugar while losers included U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors and Du Pont.
President Roosevelt weighs wage proposals for non operating and operating rail workers and urges a Christmas resolution. He notes overtime pay questions may be settled by law or agreement and says a strike would cripple war effort and shipping. He cites living costs and seeks parity with other industries while avoiding discrimination.
Congress may act to conscript home front manpower if 1944 crisis grows. House Military Affairs Chair May warns of potential drafts to support combat in Europe. war-labor bills stalled amid election and rising military strength targets. WAC enlistment flops and selective service projects show millions needed for labor and combat roles.
A fragment suggests girls abandoning uniforms as boys offer to fight, with Rep. Clare Luce remarking on biology in war. The text references wartime gender roles and public discourse.
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