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Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati...
...alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...
That was Monday. The ad was published as a full-page spread in newspapers throughout the country. On Saturday, out of an airplane stepped Henry E. Brunhoff, Cincinnati manufacturer of metal products, busy on war work. Swisher and Brunhoff put their heads together over blueprints of metal-stamping dies. Now they are at work...
...expected that at least a third of 1942's brides will be soldiers' girls. Other source of the boom is high-paying, steady employment in industrial centers. Defense-job weddings showed the greatest increase in Cincinnati (51%), Baltimore, San Diego (47%), Dayton (42%), Bridgeport (21%), Youngstown and Akron (17%), Detroit...
Died. James Buchanan Elmore, 85, "The Bard of Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook...