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WAR FRONT: The Biggest Job Begins
Your Government has decided on two broad policies. The first is … a seven-day week for every war industry. The second … rush additions to capacity by building more new plants, adding to old plants and using the many smaller plants …. Thus last week did President Roosevelt thumbnail the biggest industrial job ever tackled…
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Valid Reasons For Gas Coupons Needed
Source: “Valid Reasons For Gas Coupons Needed.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 15 Jan. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127210315/
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Butter Shortage Hits Honolulu Restaurant
Source: “Butter Shortage Hits Honolulu Restaurant.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 2 Mar. 1942, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127206415/
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Medicine: Sweet Salt
Sweet-toothed citizens, queuing up for the first ration cards the U.S. has seen, heard two hard facts repeated by doctors, dentists, dietitians: 1) we have been eating too much sugar anyway, 2) even if the U.S. sugar ration dropped to zero, we would probably be healthier than we are now. Reasons: *Saccharine, widely used as…
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FASHION: No More Nettie
Nettie Rosenstein is through again, and the U.S. wholesale dress business feels as jewelers would feel if Tiffany’s were folding up. “Miss Rosie” has made more fine women’s clothing and sold it at higher prices than any other designer in the business. But that was before Pearl Harbor. Things look different now, and Nettie Rosenstein…
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Save Gasoline Please!
Source: “Save Gasoline Please!” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 16 Mar. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127209854/
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American Shaves
Source: “American Shaves.” Business Week, 21 Mar. 1942, pp. 19”“22.
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Wartime Queries
Source: “Wartime Queries.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 7 Apr. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/117051689/
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Razor Blade Panic
Source: “Razor Blade Panic.” Business Week, 11 Apr. 1942, p. 48.