Show 91 M 6 ROUND 0 W afa washington D C aga MORE CANNED GOODS housewives a who will get more canned goods ds lh this 1 ummer summer can th thank it th the galata at senate s T truman ru man committee it no one announced it officially but it was due to their probing abit the army recent recently if y released 30 mil lion cases of canned fruits and vegetables for civilian use the truman committee had bad revealed the fact that huge quantities ot of canned goods were bei being aa hoarded ded or unwisely u used e by y the ia goar army ran y wh when arn fresh vege vegetables shies were easily available F especially binally r revealing veli we was the cross examination of gen E B gregory the army a quartermaster general by senator brewster of maine why does the arroy army teed feed canned grapefruit to in its troops m miami asked brewster when grapefruit is growing I 1 fresh all over fonda florida because the men are are too lazy to prepare fresh grap grapefruit was general gregory a frank reply he also admitted that green vegetables and fruits were readily available to army camps during a large part pact of the year but that army corn com mis purchased canned goods because it was easier to prepare than fresh vegetables the truman committee also found that as a result of this hoarding the packers and canners were in a quandary and expected to curtail production they knew w the armi arm had over ver purchased could never use its vast star stores of canned goods so the canners figured the army would dump this back on the mar market k ot thereby causing an oversupply just at the wrong time that was why 30 million cases were turned back to civilian use by the army now to ease the market while there is a gi civilian lillan shortage WHITE HITE A C COLLAR MINERS while the war lab labor board had john L lewis over a barrel for asking a 2 a day wage increase for organized coal romes miners another branch of the government the R bureau brauch r ca of internal R revenue ame oklyed okayed d ink various salary increases increase a for r nonunion supe supervisory sor employees in coal dinha mines the ie matter was kept hushed up by tealler an secret loving ov ng internal revenue bureaucrats but here are I 1 the h a f facts acts A special internal revenue branch known as the salary stabilization unit f functions in the salary field jae the war labor board mi in the wage field to keep personal earnings rn mg below inflationary levels els the ne new I 1 unit must approve a applications for all salary boosts affecting bus business iness executives and white collar workers white while everything the war labor board does is open to public scrutiny internal revenues revenue s salary stabilization unit nani operates strictly behind the scenes and doesn doean t answer to anybody recently it leaked out however chrt that bu bituminous it m coal mine operators m a m move to block union organization gala alo n 0 of f dingi mice sub bosses lor had d requested g government over at permission to I 1 increase a I 1 s salaries as of all a supervisory pervis i employ employees ing including luding ou mine n e superintendents pe ten dents managers foren foremen en all sub bosses etc that white collar increase amounted to a an average ot 2 a day just the increase the miners ers asked for 7 GRAIN FROM CANADA ford food boss bass chester cheater davis has spent days looking for a go good transportation m man to so solve iva that thi problem of bringing in wheat from canada commodity credit corporation has b bought lh million bushels of canadian di th the a w wheat but not a bushel h has as V moved meantime minne dairy and poul pool fly farmers omos in the northeast are running low on feed grains great lakes steamers g got 0 t moving ing a month late on account 0 of f im the he late thaw they are loaded down with ore for the steel ate milis mills have no space for far gram grain rail movement I 1 is the only alternative altermat ive gram grain stocks in t the lie U S have been the heaviest in history but so is co consumption ll 11 of gram record breake breaking animal production is eating I 1 into nt the stocks so fast that foreign i imports in ports must be moved this is one time when farmers would welcome acorne some of that much abused argentine corn com and wheat behind this excitement about gram grain supplies I 1 is one b big III question mark which few people ou outside taide the government realms realize namely the ic feeding nh mg of occupied territories if if and when invasion comes the 0 civilians III on the c a ni invasion front whether in france the low countries or the balkans will he h e to b be a f fad from the ame american a bread d basket quickest eat way to get food to starving people I 1 is no in th the form farm of grami gram MERRY GO ROUND 41 has no love for the duke and duchess dohs of windsor windsor saw nothing of thern them w when he th they ey carife conferred with churchill the only time man churchill ever we was booed bloed on the floor floo of aga O omone commons mone was when h he made ade lus his famous speech P in the winter of 1936 c d defending g edward s right light to my marry W wally ad acly and dald remain a k king of f r england ill only a handful onah of labor I 1 is s coming up from the bahamas to w work rk in the U S A be so this that we was lust an excuse to see hurchul churchill he wants want to get back to london |