War era salvage plan urges shared car pool and waste reduction
The piece calls for organized car pooling in suburbs, coordinated store deliveries, and home canning and wastepaper drives to aid wartime efforts. It urges saving packaging, scrap metal collection, and garden humus programs while warning that civilian savings depend on sustained war production and morale. It also notes shortages of auto workers and high relevance of waste management measures.
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Goodwill Industries
Salvation Army
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
OPM
Malaya
Claude R. Wickard
Europe
China
Crosby braced by fan letters to dedicate songs for troops
Hollywood era article recounts Bing Crosby receiving a flood of fan mail from across the United States. Senders ask him to dedicate songs and recite verses to General MacArthur and U S soldiers in the Philippines and Bataan. The messages express love, pride, and support for fighting men and vow to endure.
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Hollywood
Crosby
Bing
Ritz
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Hell of
Philippines
Lynn
Mass
Robert Pennell
MacArthur
Dot
Puck Pennell
Silver City
N. M
200Th Coast Artillery
Bataan
Grant County
Uncle Samuel
Somerville
General MacArthur
William Marquette
Ryans
Sanford
Fla
Colin Kelly
Williams
Pittsburgh
Tommy
Vince Johnson
Elliott
America
Pacific
Puzzle clues for a 1940s style horizontals and verticals
A mixed set of crossword style clues across two directions including mythic figures, anatomy terms, chemical symbols, geography abbreviations and common words. The puzzle lists many partial answers and expects fill from cross references with themes likely ancient myth, science, and daily language.
On the Record: Hitler Speech Analyzed From New York
Dorothy Thompson argues Hitler’s Berlin address reveals propaganda aims and tactics as world war shifts to political warfare. She notes widespread mistranslation of the speech and the challenges of obtaining a complete text, urging thorough, coordinated information work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Thompson
Hitler
Berlin
Russia
United States
Brauchitsch
Germany
New York
Transocean
Reuter
New York Times
Tass
Broadcasting Company
Coordinator of
Mutual Shortwave Broadcasting Room
Washington
Dark prices in tires reveal black market under wartime rationing
The Truman committee is expected to probe racketeering in tires as rationing strains supply. Officials note 7 to 8 million tires stockpiled and 28 million motorists affected, with secondhand goods and retreads thriving amid price rises and thefts.
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Washington
Truman Committee
American Automobile Association
Martin
Baltimore
Manners Quiz on Social Use and Courtesy
A Victorian style guide asks five questions on polite behavior. The advised answers: 1 No, avoid flaunting luxury. 2 No, career talk sounds pretentious. 3 No, avoid sexist slurs. 4 No, avoid criticizing a spouse in public. 5 No, never imply a wife is less than ideal. A suggested better solution: avoid harmful remarks and misusing others’ feelings.
Anne Jackson lands a shipyard job against the odds
Anne Jackson, 21, from Tucson, Arizona, became the first woman in California Shipbuilding Companys drafting department at Terminal Island. She convinced the personnel manager to hire her for isometric projection, joining 9,000 male workers and proving a place can be made for a determined woman in a male dominated shipyard.
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Anne Jackeson
North Main Street
Tucson
Arizona
Anne
Los Angeles
California
University of Arizona
Terminal Island
Los Angeles Harbor
California Shipbuilding Company
Stenographic Department
David
Charles
Anne Jackson
Tax Expert Randolph Paul Picked to Draft War Revenue Plan
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau names Randolph Paul, tax authority and lawyer, to draft the administration’s program to raise 27 billion dollars annually. Paul, 51, has advised the government on taxation and written key works on federal taxation. He previously practiced at Lord Day and Lord and taught at Yale and Harvard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Treasury
Wall Street
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Randolph Paul
Paul
Yale
Harvard
Amherst College
New York Law School
New York
Lord, Day and Lord
Morgenthau
Biographies and Novels Featured in Wartime Review Roundup
Philip Guedalla's Mr Churchill presents a sweeping life portrait of Britain's wartime leader, while Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek follows Lady Dona's forbidden passion with a pirate. A scholarly study Jew s in a Gentile World analyzes anti Semitism through social science perspectives with 18 contributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Churchill
Philip Guedalla
Reynal & Hitchcock
Great Britain
Guedalla
Churchill
Daphne du Maurier
Doubleday Doran
Miss du Maurier
Dona St. Columb
Dona
London
Narvon
Lady Dana
Macmillan
Isacque Graeber
Institute of Social Research
Stewart Henderson Britt
George Washington University
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Ernie Pyle
Seattle
Svend J. Jorgensen
Denmark
Alaska
U. S
Jorgensen
Camp Perry
Ft. Lawton
Ft. Lewis
U S
Eas
S. J. Jorgensen
Japan
Gen
Ray Lyman Wilbur
American Social Hygiene Assciation
Ately
More McLemore
Henry McLemore
Slai
Artemis
Exhibition Farm
North Carolina
Compass Point
Edward
Rai
Rocky Pinnacle
Cleveland
Rom
Rimsk
Korsac
Goebbels
Roosevelt
Nazi Party
Pearl Harbor
Brunei
Borneo
Sarawak
Palawan
James Brook
British North Borneo Company
England
Paul Mallon
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Texe
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Near East
Dutch East Indies
Rommel
Sicily
Malta
Halfaya
Sidran Gulf
Cairo
Tripoli
Dale Carnegie
United Press
Lord Randolph Churchill
Winston Churchill
India
Cuba
Egypt
Admiralty
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