Word: jn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raises Compounded. The most painful . rise of all came jn food, the one item that housewives might have expected to drop, in view of bumper crops in prospect. But damand was also up, thanks to civilian employment, which had reached a peak of 61,296,000 in June, 1,217,000 more than ever before. Thus, the price of meat in Kansas City soared to a local record of $40.50 a hundred pounds for beef steers, and a world record of $34.25 for feeder (i.e., still-to-be-fattened) steers...
...many things that her husband did not. As New Dealers the Clappers often admired Roosevelt, often felt disappointed in him, supported him except in 1940, when Raymond-but not Olive-switched to Willkie. Both of the Clappers felt closer to their fellow Kansan Alf Landon (whom Clapper opposed jn 1936) than to all the Roosevelts put together...
...veterans recalled World War I's old flying "Jennies" (the JN types, fabric-covered, wooden cratelike structures), the wooden Lockheeds (the type Wiley Post flew around the world) and Fokker commercial planes of more than ten years ago. They had high praise for planes mainly built of wood on grounds of greater maneuverability, especially on quickly built temporary landing fields. The Army explains that it is not yet ready for wooden combat planes, is meanwhile ordering more & more wooden primary trainers, has available a design for an advanced trainer in which priority precious metals may be replaced by wood...