Red Front and Inflation Battles Mark 1942 Front News
Soviet analysts in London urged a second front in western Europe to ease pressure on Red armies at Stalingrad where Stalin orders kept troops fighting to the death. Rebels report 3,000 enemy killed in three days near the upper Don while reinforcements bolster Volga defenses amid intense north west suburb fighting. Inflation actions move toward wage and price stabilization with new Senate and House measures setting bases and floors, allow raises up to 15 percent, and require parity levels for basic commodities.
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Promise of Essential Rubber Promised for War Effort
William M. Jeffers, the new rubber administrator, pledged essential rubber for military and civilian needs. He announced increased synthetic rubber production, continued research, and fast action, urging limited civilian rubber use to preserve wartime transport and economy. He warned against removing America from wheels to avoid economic disruption.
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Climate rationing rules spark regional fuel oil plans
The OPA will consider wide climate differences across 30 central states and the East when determining fuel oil rations for households. In Lancashire England, Brit A Asherman was fined about $8 and ordered to pay $18 in costs for using bread as bait.
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Harvest boosts British crop yield cutting shipping space
The week’s news notes Britain achieved a 5 percent higher crop yield per cultivated acre, saving about one million tons of shipping space. In Brazil, Rio de Janeiro’s police chief ordered Axis nationals to register at the alien bureau, including Japanese, despite Brazil not being at war with Japan.
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Manpower Control Advocated by Senator Hill
Senator Lis ter Hill of Alabama drawn up a bill granting President Roosevelt power to coordinate manpower and industry during war. It would authorize executive orders designating occupations for non enlisted individuals and empower local draft boards to mobilize workers from nonessential industries to war plants. The measure seeks universal service and total mobilization of industry.
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JAP NAVAL THRUST IN SOLOMONS PUSHED BACK
Allied air forces attacked the Japanese fleet northeast of Tulagi and reported damage to two battleships as land activity around the Solomons slowed. MacArthur’s command said air strikes hit Lae and supply lines from Buna to Kokoda as Japanese forces pressed toward Port Moresby. Buna lies 175 miles southeast of Lae.
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Here We Go Again World Premier Highlighting Fibber McGee Film
Hollywood notes announce the October 10 national roll out of Here We Go Again starring Edgar Bergen and Charla McCarthy with Ginny Simma and the Great Gildersleeve. Prices 35 cents adults 26 cents children, with adults admitted only when accompanied by children. The piece also mentions Wake Island actor Albert Dekker Bowdoin educated and American.
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Great Gildersleeve
Wheat Price and Bread Cost Across Time and Policy
A Washington analyst traces wheat prices and bread costs from World War I to the present, arguing that packaging, labor, and sanitary changes have driven the rise far more than wheat itself. He notes that a 60 cent per bushel wheat increase only raises loaf price by one cent and discusses public hunger to pay higher prices versus home baking.
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Briefs: Lethal Bombing Planes and Vaccine Aid
Aviation News committee notes bombing planes as successors to WW1 observation aircraft. Rockefeller Foundation provides free yellow fever vaccine to government for armed forces use. Berlin Swedish paper notes Germany hosts 4,000,000 foreign workers including 1,500,000 POWs. Economists predict dairy cow herds rise about 3 percent this year and about 1 percent next year.
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Gems of Thought in Fire of the Soul and Duty
Selected quotes from De Stael Tennyson Owen and Kingsley emphasize inner fire as existence, rising on stepping stones of past selves, service across social stations, and gratitude for daily tasks that must be done.
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Tennyson
Robert Owen
Charles Kingsley
Greatest Landlord Vizianagram of Madras Estate
The world's greatest landlord Mr Vizianagram a leading Hindu nobleman and zamindar of Madras governs a 3000 square mile estate with 900000 tenants, a population larger than Cleveland Ohio, in a historic show of vast landholdings and authority.
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