Allied Drive In Italy And Wage Talks Stir News
Steady Allied progress in Italy includes pushes toward Rome amid heavy Nazi counterattacks. Steel producers begin CIO wage talks seeking 17 cents per hour raises as rail workers win eight cents. Battleship Wisconsin launched at Philadelphia costs 90 million dollars. Britain shifts support in Yugoslavia toward Tito Broz as Mihailovich forces decline.
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Meat Supplies and War Production Outlook for 1944
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics outlines plans to boost civilian meat supplies while predicting a smaller spring pig crop outside the corn belt due to feed shortages. The OPA cuts ration values for veal and lamb as well as pork cuts, and the War Food Administration eases farm slaughtered pork deliveries. War Production Board forecasts a 30 percent rise in munitions output in 1944, aircraft production doubling, and naval and merchant ship activity rising, with selective service expanding as demand grows.
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Wilson
Pacific Theater
Ration chips and steel pennies spark doubts and jokes
The piece mocks new ration tokens and the steel penny plan. It envisions red and blue ration chips, warns of misuse on buses and groceries, jokes about an ultraviolet glow, and laments changing coins. It ends recalling past taxi refusals and train seat orders while urging caution and morale.
War veteran seeks new wife after service ends
A 95 year old St Louis war worker plans to remarry after the war, having been married twice before. The Red Cross arranges 97000 dollars in medicines to neutral Switzerland for onward shipment to Holland. In Italy a chewing gum patch saves an A 26 bomber from a crash as fuel runs low after a bombers belly landing.
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Holland
Red Crane Unite
Italy
Marshalls Battle Aces and War Effort in Coral Sea
With Old Glory flying over the Gilbert and Marshalls, U S navy aircraft from carriers bombarded air bases while ships shelled coastal defenses. The campaign threatened Allied ranges as airmen softened targets and a top ace Lieut. Comdr. Edward O Hare was reported missing in action.
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South Pacific War
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Little Girls Dress Designed For Easy Fast Dressing
Pattern No. 8514 offers sizes from 38 to 60 with short sleeves and 414 yards of 39 inch fabric plus 5 yards contrast trimming. The dress is styled for quick wearing and easy buttoning, mirroring grown up designs in simple tailored lines.
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Ship May Break in Two During Launch Test
A historical note explains ships suffer their greatest strain during launching when the stern enters water but the bow remains on the ways. The mid section may sag up to six feet, risking the ship breaking its back if not rapidly relieved by motion.
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