War Information Office Warns Rumors Run Riot in Wartime
The Office of War Information analyzed more than 4 500 rumors over 11 months. Most concern hate or anxiety, with hate rumors targeting groups such as Catholics, Jews, labor, farmers, Red Cross, and unions. The OWI urges facts over rumor, denying or disproving rumors, and avoiding repeat propagation.
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War Information Office
Amarillo
Office of War Information
OWT
Pearl Harbor
United States
Army Administration
Red Cross
Russia
Owi
Squabble Over Who Is Boss On War Contracts
Washington reports say War Production Board Chairman Donald Nelson may extend civilian control over army and navy contract placements. Army officials resist, while Nelson and WPB vice president Charles E. Wilson push to curb military oversight, with tension over where contracts go to areas of labor shortage or factories already loaded with orders.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Army
Navy
Nelson
Charles E. Wilson
WPB
Woman Known as the Stone Woman Weds in Christmas Church Ceremony
Mrs. Tola Taylor Swinnerton, 40, called the stone woman for ossifying complications, married Theron V. Warren, 42, in Wentworth Avenue Baptist Church Chicago. She arrived in a wheelchair. doctors warned she may never walk again though arms regained some use.
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Chicago
Tola Taylor Swinnerton
Wentworth Avenue Baptist Church
Eugene H Daniels
Theron V. Warren
Swinnerton
Warren
Cook County Hospital
Utilities boom mark 1942 efficiency record, Swope says
Gerard Swope, newly resumed president at General Electric, asserts electric utilities achieved a remarkable war record in 1942 and set new efficiency marks during a critical period in the industry.
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New York
Gerard Swope
General Electric Co
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