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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news WAVES: Members of the WAVES, the navy's woman auxiliary, will not be permitted to serve overseas, by a provision in a bill reported out by the senate naval affairs committee. JEWS: A separate force of Jewish Jew-ish soldiers may be established by Great Britain for service in Burma, it is announced from London. One or more divisions may be recruited in Palestine and the Near East. POULTRY: Small reductions in the ceiling prices of dressed and processed poultry have been announced an-nounced by the Office of Price Administration, Ad-ministration, ranging from Vz cent a pound for "hard scalded" to 34 cents for quick frozen varieties. Prices on drawn poultry were trimmed a cent, and those on "eviscerated" "evis-cerated" quick frozen 2 cents. Production of chickens this year will equal or surpass last year's record rec-ord total, it was predicted. There will be sufficient turkeys for the holiday holi-day trade, dealers estimate, reversing revers-ing a previous opinion. MUSIC: Radio broadcasting stations sta-tions can now get the benefit of recordings re-cordings made by union musicians. By agreement the 14-month ban has been ended. COWS: Reason for the drop in milk production, according to the secretary of the National Co-operative Pure Milk association, is that the cows "get tired" when excessively exces-sively milked. BUYING POWER: "Excess" purchasing pur-chasing power existing in the nation at present amounts to 51 billions, according to the estimates of the Office of War Information. This vast sum is characterized by OWI officials of-ficials as a "grave inflationary threat." UNEMPLOYED: The pool of unemployed un-employed workers is practically exhausted, ex-hausted, according to a department of commerce survey. The report stated that most of the one million persons classified as unemployed were changing from one job to another. |
