Fighting Front Reporters Honor Their Battles
A Cosmopolitan associate editor highlights "fighting front reporters" like Larry Allen and Yates McDaniel who served aboard ships and in jungles, enduring captures, blasts, and silences. The piece notes awards, near death experiences, and MacArthur’s Silver Star given to Haugland, with many others wounded or missing on multiple theaters.
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New York
Harry T. Brundidge
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Brundidge
British Admiralty
Harry Crockett
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Haugland
Army
Johnson and Johnson Surgical Dressings Leader
Johnson and Johnson remains the world’s largest maker of surgical dressings, dominating global supply chains with wide market reach and steady production capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson & Johnson
Farm Policy Clash Threatens 1945 Food Production
Washington reports a sharp dispute between the administration and Congress over farm price policies. Secretary Wickard backs subsidies to boost acreages in soybeans, peanuts, and vegetables, while Congress withholds funding and opposes subsidies, creating uncertainty for farmers planting in four to five weeks.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional Farm Bloc
Wickard
House
Price Czar Brown Aims to Crush Black Market in Wartime Trade
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown declares a firm plan to wipe out black market sales of meat butter and scarce goods. He outlines four main tactics including public information on unsanitary slaughter pens, 300 enforcement suits in five weeks, moving toward meat rationing in six weeks, and potentially capping live cattle prices. He compares illicit sellers to bootleggers and pledges price control to keep inflation in check while avoiding blanket rationing.
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Joseph W. Grigg, JR
Washington
U.R
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
United Press
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
Congress
Germany
Mass Cold Grips East as Death Toll Rises
The East endures a second day of lethal cold with at least 26 dead across New England New York Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Frostbite cases surge fuel shortages bite shipyards idle and many schools close. New Bedford pier unloads nine vessels crippled by 50 000 pounds of fish. Adel Throckmorton notes 27 rural schools shuttered in Sedgwick County Kansas due to teacher shortages.
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New England
New York State
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Boston
New Bedford
Mass
Warrensburg
N. Y
Mount Washington
Mercury
New York City
OPA
War Bonds Call To Support Troops And War Effort
A patriotic appeal urges citizens to buy U S War Bonds to fund military effort against Japan. It promises a government backed return of four dollars for every three invested over ten years and encourages saving even by sacrificing everyday purchases.
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Hirohitos
U. S
U.S
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Allen
Rommel
Jack Singer
International News Service
Byron Barnes
New York Herald- Tribune
Harry Percy
Alexandria
Clark Lee
North China
Lee
Newark
N. J
Mexico City
Honolulu
Far East
Japan
Navy
Bataan
Corregidor
Solomons
Pacific
Robert Nixon
Dunkerque
Frank Hewlett
Dean Schedler
The
Max Hill
Tokyo
Robert St. John
NBC
Eleanor and Reynolds Packard
John Goette
INS
Peiping
China
Fred Oeschner
Wallace Carroll
Louis Lochner
Berlin
Yates McDaniel
Tientsin
Nanking
Canton
Hangkow
Singapore
McDaniel
Australia
Vern Haugland
New Guinea
Mt. Down River
Johnsons
Eancene Wwarais Says
N. Fillmore
6Th & Mississippi
Uncle Sam
Frank Donahue
Cleveland
Victory Garden
Agriculture Department
Price Czar Brown
East
Syracuse, N. Y
Wichita
Kan
U.P
Adel F. Throckmorton
Throckmorton
Sedgwick County
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