Grain used for butadiene faces war strain in Amarillo
The War Production Board reportedly told alcohol producers they may shift from grain to molasses, but tankers needed for molasses and gasoline shipments complicate the plan. The piece notes grain shortages threaten industrial alcohol and the synthetic rubber program, raising concerns about policy pressure and future food for troops and civilians.
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War Production Board
Sicily
Italy
Europe
GOP Policy Drift Toward Limited Postwar Cooperation
Republican sentiment favors a Mackinac Island conference declaration promoting restricted international cooperation with each nation preserving sovereignty. The approach echoes the Vandenberg White resolution, with Taft and Willkie factions seeking varying degrees of entente, avoiding a world state or police force.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Mackinac Island
Willkie
Taft
League of Nations
Mallon
House
Senate
Caring for the Sick and Wounded in Sicily
Ernie Pyle describes the Allied medical chain from company aid men to division clearing stations in Sicily. He notes front line care, rapid evacuation, and the mobile nature of forward stations, with doctors, nurses, and support crews operating under fire.
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Ernie Pyle
Sicily
45Th
Ernie. Pyle
Africa
High hopes and danger hover over Penny and Bill
Penny Vance, private secretary to Powell Ward at Spot News Pictures, enjoys a guarded romance with Ward while balancing ambition and loyalty. When a telegram reveals Bill Vance, her brother and veteran photojournalist, is in a plane crash during Alcan Highway coverage, Penny and Cleve Rockwell face mounting worry about his fate.
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Penelope Vance
Spot News Pictures Incorporated
New York
Penny
Powell Ward
Spot News Pictures
Penny Vance
Ted Sullivan
Barney Holt
Hollywood
Speck
Cleve
Cleve Rockwell
Bill
Darling
Powell
Ill
Parwell Ward
British Columbia
Alcan
Pennyiercely
Warsaw
Poland
Thoughts on Ethics and Fear
A compact meditation contrasts moral ruin with virtue and notes a shared dread among early believers. The lines juxtapose Euripides’ sharp judgment of women with a biblical account of widespread awe and unease among the church community.
Quotes on inflation and national resolve from wartime figures
A set of wartime opinions emphasizes public discipline to curb inflation, duty in action, and maintaining national prestige. Henry Bruere urges prepared, persistent public buy-in. a Navy censor reminds crews not to claim solitary exploits. Senator Carter Glass warns against cheapened prestige amid partisan politics.
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Carter Glass
Virginia
Bootleg Revival Warned By Investigative Probe
Cosmopolitan writer Harry T Brundidge details samples of illicit gin rye bourbon and Scotch with forged labels and methyl alcohol traces. He describes undercover interviews with bootleggers and officials across multiple cities warning of a market rebound and bootleg operations near ports and military bases.
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Cosmopolitan
New York
McCoy
United States
Alcohol Tax Unit
Internal Revenue Bureau
Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc
Prohibition
Washington
Nortonio
Dallas
St. Louis
Kansas City
Folk
New Orleans
Houston
Chicago
America
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Army
Navy
Retort Courteous at the Theater Skit
Otis Skinner starred in a play as a party of finishing school girls attended. The audience giggled and talked, making lines hard to hear. After the show the women praised Skinner and one quipped about acoustics. He replied the stage heard them clearly.
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Otis Skinner
Mr. Skinner
Years of Blindness reviewed as major study of Indian problem
United Press review highlights H. G. Quaritch Wales's Years of Blindness as a significant non academic work on India. The author draws on wartime experience in Asia to analyze British Dutch and French colonial rule and the rise of Japanese influence, offering a clear, politically scientific perspective.
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United Press
Crowell
H. G. Quaritch Wales
Wales
India
Thailand
Malaya
Burma
French Indo-China
Dutch East Indies
Greater India Research Committee
University of London
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
Quaritch Wales
Kipling
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