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May 2, 1943

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GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO; NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO

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THAT vacation trip on which Howard Lindsay and R. McK. Crouse are now idling no doubt is from hour to hour being broken up with shop talk, to wit: The recent enthusiasm of Twentieth Century-Fox (why can't the movies keep off this page?) over the Margaret Curtis fantasy which goes by the title of "A Highland Fling," for which said outfit seems willing to put up what in polite circles is known as the wherewithal.

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Early Shortage of Meat for Army As Result of OPA Rules Predicted; SHORTAGE OF MEAT FOR ARMY IS SEEN

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Repr Ploeser scores OPA for not heeding mfrs advice on high point-values for sausage; cites waste and plight of 50 mfrs

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CALLS ON OWNERS; Secretary Tells Mine Operators to Prepare to Open the Pits WARNS ON TROOP USE He Also Asks Eastman to Bar Unnecessary Railroad Travel ICKES GETS POWER TO OPERATE MINES

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ickes may ask natl dimout to conserve coal

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Anthracite Mines Closed; 80,000 Standing By Lewis; Hard-Coal Miners Join Bituminous Strike, Quietly Await Word From Union -- Prepared to Ignore Roosevelt 80,000 QUIT WORK IN HARD COAL PITS

By Walter W. Ruchspecial To the New York Times

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1943Mustafa Nadarević, Bosnian actor and film director (died 2020)^[†]

Mustafa Nadarević was a Bosnian actor. Widely considered one of the greatest actors from the former Yugoslavia, he starred in over 70 films, including The Smell of Quinces (1982), When Father Was Away on Business (1985), Reflections (1987), The Glembays (1988), Kuduz (1989), Silent Gunpowder (1990), The Perfect Circle (1997), Days and Hours (2004), Mirage (2004) and Halima's Path (2012).

Headlines from May 2, 1943

Front Page 1 -- No Title

GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO; NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO

Early Shortage of Meat for Army As Result of OPA Rules Predicted; SHORTAGE OF MEAT FOR ARMY IS SEEN

CALLS ON OWNERS; Secretary Tells Mine Operators to Prepare to Open the Pits WARNS ON TROOP USE He Also Asks Eastman to Bar Unnecessary Railroad Travel ICKES GETS POWER TO OPERATE MINES

Anthracite Mines Closed; 80,000 Standing By Lewis; Hard-Coal Miners Join Bituminous Strike, Quietly Await Word From Union -- Prepared to Ignore Roosevelt 80,000 QUIT WORK IN HARD COAL PITS

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