Radio Mirror: The Magazine of Radio Romances (Jan-June 1943)

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I »1* * <9^f <?** J^tow 92 % «, is. i Sr Production of baby diapers is keeping pace with the national birth rate, WPB assures mothers. * * * Turn your ration books into your local War Price and Rationing Board when you enter military service. Anyone found to be using yours will get into trouble. * * * Your soldier boy, home on furlough, has a right to a halfpound of sugar per week. Before he leaves camp, ask him to apply for a sugar certificate. "There's no excuse for any increase in prices of rayon hosiery," OPA states. On the contrary, costs "are more likely to be reduced than increased." * * * Get the pennies out of piggies, the Director of the Mint urges. If every American family should return to use 10 penny pieces, and these should stay in circulation, the Nation's supply would be increased by one-third 1941's record production. * * * Postmen may, but your laundryman mustn't, ring twice at your home on the same day. Office of Defense Transportation has ruled that laundries may not deliver clean clothes in the morning and pick up soiled ones in the afternoon of the same day at the same place. * * * If you're an old-time sauerkraut fan, you're in luck this year. No kraut will be canned, but the USDA is helping producers to put tons of it up in barrels. Fans say barrel-packed kraut has superior flavor. * * * No landlord, in areas where rents are fixed, can impose new obligations on you which he did not require on your maximum rent date, OPA says. To be sure of your rights, read carefully the lease in force on that date. If that lease did not require you to pay a penalty when late paying your rent, you don't have to pay a penalty now. If that lease did not require you to pay gas, electric, water, or telephone charges, you don't have to pay them now. Use every trick you know, and learn some new ones, for saving on natural and manufactured gas in house and water heating, cooking, refrigeration— the War Production Board asks our 85 million home gas users. War industries need gas. Railroads, which must carry the oil and coal from which gas is made, have other jobs to do, too. WPB's not fooling when it warns that serious shortages may appear if home gas consumption isn't cut. All the Men at this Party are Snobs!" Carol: Nonsense, Mary! They're genial lads, and you're pretty enough and peppy enough to have them begging for dances! You deserve the limelight, Pet— and I can help you get your share, in one easy lesson! Mary: Underarm odor! But I bathe every day! Carol: A bath is only intended to take care of past perspiration, Mary! Use Mum to prevent risk of underarm odor to come! ' Mary: Wallflowers like me are often made by trusting a bath too long. Never again for me, when speedy Mum will keep me safe for hours! "Y'ou'I'L ^ke Mum— for SPEED— takes only 30 A seconds. For security— Mum prevents underarm odor without stopping perspiration. For dependability— Mum keeps you dainty for hours to come! ... For Sanitary Napkins — Mum is gentle, safe, dependable—prevents embarrassment. TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION Product of Bristol-Myirs MAY, 1943 ■