Decline in U S Fresh Deciduous Fruit Exports 1939
USDA reports a substantial drop in fresh deciduous fruit exports from July to December 1939. Apples fell to 2 447 000 bushels and pears to 1 748 000 bushels while grapes reached 56 818 000 pounds, with European markets hardest hit due to war and higher 1939 UK crop. Non European exports stayed near 1938 levels.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Gone With the Wind Publication Year
Gar A. states the novel was published in July 1936.
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DS. Gar
Girl In Love Takes Her Life
DETROIT March 8. A girl identified as Johanna Stoddard of New York jumped from a seventeenth floor hotel room window. She was dead on police arrival five minutes later. A lipstick note on the wall read Exit smiling and another note addressed to Wi 8 Paley 485 Madison Avenue New York City expressed her love.
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Detroit
Johanna Stoddard
New York
Paley
Madison Avenue
New York City
German Bomber Shot Down Off North Scotland
The Air Ministry said a German bomber was shot down today off North Scotland. It was the second raider down off Scotland in two days and the forty-fifth on or near the coast since the war began. Samuel Insull’s link to Edison is noted in a separate QA item.
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London
Air Ministry
North
Scotland
Retaliation Demanded By British
British leaders press for retaliation as air raids on shipping trigger vows of action. Treasury issues a 700 million pound vote of credit for war expenses while RAF sorties over Germany and Poland continue with leaflet drops and reconnaissance missions.
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London
Treasury
Air Ministry
Germany
DNB
Josiah C. Wedgwood
Royal Air Force
Apple prices rise in British auctions with light U S offerings
American apple supplies were light at London and Liverpool auctions this week. Virginia Albemarle Pippins and Rome Beauty saw higher prices, while Virginia Rome Beauty declined in barrels and crates. Ben Davis and Rome Beauty fetched specific barrel prices. shipments to the UK after the Nov 20 import ban were not made since last fall.
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London
Liverpool
York Imperial
Ben Davis
Rome Beauty
Rome
United Kingdom
Grandiose 1927 Apple Blossom Festival Highlights
The 1927 Apple Blossom Festival featured a massive two day pageant with about 8 000 school children from Winchester Frederick and western counties Brunswick West Virginia and a 1 000 child Mountain State troupe. Madison College Harrisonburg sent 650 girls in the Queen's parade and The United States Navy Band The President's Own provided notable music. Staunton Military Academy planned to attend with 700 students but could not due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Highie
Winchester
Frederick
Brunswick
West Virginia
Madison College
Harrisonburg
United States Navy Band
Staunton Military Academy
Union To Meet At Welltown Methodist Church
Members of the Brucetown Methodist Union will meet next Monday night at 7:30 at the Welltown Methodist Church. A C Halvosa superintendent of the Market Street Sunday School will discuss ways and means of improving the union.
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Brucetown Methodist Union
Welltown
Financing the Church Meeting Urges Church Stewards
The notice calls church stewards officers and Sunday School members to attend a finance meeting. Reginald Duvall serves as president of the Union.
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Reginald Duvall
President Roosevelt Travel Distance Since 1933
Since his inauguration in 1933 the president has traveled 179 112 miles by land and sea through the beginning of 1940.
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Roosevelt
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Jones Funeral Home
Lovett Brothers
N. Loudoun Street
Lel Tapi
S. Loudoun
Loudoun St
S. Loudoun St
National Ave
F. L. Dovell
Stephens City
Taylor Evans
N. Kent
G. T
Riverton
Goodrich Silvertown
Care Star Office
Alesmen Wan
Rawleigh
Rawleigh’s
Dept
Richmond
Edwin B. Estes
Berryville Ave
M. H. Rosenberger
Hayfield
Nichols Hatchery
Rockmart
Jesse van Camp
c/o
Winchester Star
J. P. Allen
Atty
Court Square
First Trust
Miles Music CO
Samuel Insull
Thomas Edison
Insull
America
Wedgwood
Kingsley Wood
Posen
Poznan
Poland
Great Britain
Leipzig
Union
Plaza
Front Royal Road
Asaeo Ad
APC
Columbia
Nehi Bottling CO
Darvel
Axminster
Balmore Axminster
Wilton
Dan
Voyally
Jacquard
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