Delray Beach USO dances barred for soldiers
Soldiers were forbidden to attend weekly USO dances in Delray Beach Florida amid protests by music czar James Caesar Petrillo. Defense officials cited absence of a professional music organization as the reason for barring service members and their partners from the free events designed for those serving overseas.
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Delray Beach
Fla
James Caesar
Trille
Czar Petrillo
Adjutant General’s Office
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Speeding Hazards Return As Tire Wear Increases
Reports claim spring, looser traffic rules revive speed driving, shortening tire life. Eddie Rickenbacker warns that saving one old rubber tire could, as in his case, help produce rafts and save seven men, urging stricter caution.
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Eddie Rickenbacker
Business leaders eye political economics for new world
The Chamber of Commerce president Eric A. Johnston states American business must engage in economics and politics as the new world will be shaped by political economics and business interests.
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America
C. of C
Eric A. Johnston
Europe
Africa
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Council
Inflation, Bankhead Bill Clash in wartime policy
Dorothy Thompson argues inflationary Bankhead policy harms war aims. She credits the President for vetoing the measure and urges farm support through production, rationing, and manpower mobilization. She critiques Congress, calls for broad price restraint, and emphasizes labor and equipment priorities for farmers.
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Dorothy Thompson
Senator Bankhead
Congress
Thompswu
Bankhead
Problem of the Wire Cage Chapter 20
Hadley and Dr. Fell debate Chandler and Madge Sturgess as suspects after Dorrance’s murder. The police surgeon notes the scarf holds clues and a mysterious presence of mind from Brenda White as a possible factor in the case.
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Hadley
Young Rowland
Chandler
Madge Sturgess
Dr. Fell
Frank Dorrance
Wes
Fell
Brenda White
Maria
Churchill on China and Europe and world peace
Lipmann argues Churchill’s plan to head a future world organization with Britain the United States and Russia avoids misreading by excluding China. He says real peace requires powers with vital interests and adequate power, notes China’s key role, and urges Britain and Russia to work with China to prevent a broader East West war.
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Mr. Churchill
United Nations
Britain
United States
Russia
World Organization
Lippmann
China
Pacific
Atlantic
Churchill
Council of Europe
Council of the West
Europe
Africa
Spain
English Channel
Germany
America
Americas
Brazil
South American
France
Portugal
North and West
Ernie Pyle Visits the Foreign Legion in Algeria
War correspondent Ernie Pyle reports from Sidi Bel Abbes Algeria on the French Foreign Legion. He portrays its grim discipline diverse makeup and mixed loyalties while noting American interactions with Legionnaires and the unit’s readiness to join Allied fighting.
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Sidi-Bel-Abbes
Algeria
French Foreign Legion
Legion
Oran
Foreign Legion
Puzzler Grid of Horizontal and Vertical Clues
A four part word puzzle with numbered horizontal and vertical clues. The list includes country related terms, plant genus names, anatomical and linguistic hints, and city and geographic references. Readers deduce interlocking answers from the given clues.
Larry Adler and the era of wooden substitutes in wartime
The Look piece profiles harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler and his wealth, fame, and bohemian New York life. It shifts to a Winter Furniture Market report showing wartime shortages driving a switch to wood and plastics, with new designs, reduced production, and Modern becoming the leading style for defense housing.
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America
Social Etiquette Quiz on Service Flags Practices
Answers cover how to display service flags: place a smaller gold star over the blue star for a deceased recipient, do not make a soft flag, keep the national flag on top with stars and stripes, allow a unit to display a single flag with a star and the count of men in service, and permit a star for each person in service. If a son is in service, display with pride rather than bragging.
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