Postwar plans aim to boost jobs, goods demand, and confidence
Carl E. Newton of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway says disseminating plans of industries along railroad routes will show how postwar products and expansions in coal and pulp and paper sectors can create jobs. Surveys indicate coal demand from nylon to steel locomotives and plasticized paper innovations, promising employment and stable enterprise after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl E. Newton
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company
Indus
Research for Life and Death The Cost of Discovery
The article argues that the two billion spent on the atomic bomb and four million for cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering demonstrates a parallel: vast funds and bright minds drive both destruction and healing. It asserts that continued investment in science can repurpose energy used for war to fight cancer, urging more money and research to conquer the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
Charles F. Kettering
Memorial Cancer Center
New York
No Sauce for the Gander AFL leader clashes over postwar labor policy
President William Green of the AFL, a veteran labor figure, rejects the Ball-Burton-Hatch industrial relations plan and resists government control of labor. He advocates industry and labor meeting with government to ease reconversion, but his implacable stance may doom such talks. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach promotes public interest over self interest, urging reforms for common good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Green
AFL
Ball-Burton- Hatch
Green
Mr. Green
Labor
Schwellenbach
Wait for Victory Longest in China
The piece traces China's prolonged war effort from early clashes over Manchuria to victory after Pearl Harbor. It covers the 1937-39 Japanese advances, Stilwell's Burma operations, the Fourteenth Air Force’s buildup, the reopening of the Burma Road in 1945, and China’s shift to the offensive driving back Japanese lines toward Indo China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James D. White
Pres
United Nations
China
Japan
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor
Chiang Kai- Shek
Yangtze Valley
Chungking Shek
Yenan
Chiang
America
Asia
Burma
Assam
Joseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Fourteenth Airforce
Himalayas
Bankow
Indo-China
MacArthur
Philippines
South China Sea
Chiang Karen
India
Stillewell
Kweiyang
Thailand
Malaya
Washington Letter on postwar reconversion and agency readiness
Douglas Larsen surveys the transition to peace, noting OPA and War Production Board clashes over price controls, reorganizations across Treasury Labor Agriculture and Commerce, and a lack of concrete reconversion planning. He cites unprepared veterans programs and a weak GI Bill, with industry data scarce as the nation moves from war to civilian production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
War Production Board
Treasury
Labor, Agriculture and Commerce Departments
War Manpower Commission
Office of Civilian Requirements
Veterans Administration
Bradley
Europe
G. I
American Women Did Their Part in War of Pacific
Bonnie Wiley profiles American women who served in World War II along the Pacific front. Army and Navy nurses worked in field hospitals on Okinawa Saipan Iwo Jima and aboard hospital ships like the Comfort. Flight nurses entered battle areas and WACs served in the South Pacific and the Philippines under tough GI conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie Wiley
Guam
Pacific
Army
Okinawa
South Pacific
Navy
Saipan
Iwo
Comfort
WACS
Philippines
Yanks Going to Pacific Given Some Good Advice
HAL BOYLE reports on Army prep for Pacific deployment. Troops face strict initiation to fly eastward to Manila, with health checks, inoculations, and lectures at embarkation. Capt. Alfred Gross warns against overseas romance to avoid serious illness and urges personal hobbies to combat boredom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Alfred Gross
Miami Beach
Fla
Radar To Make Sea and Air Travel Safe in Postwar Era
A government briefing outlines radar use for peacetime sea and air travel safety. Radar will allow ships to avoid collisions and enter harbors in zero visibility, while commercial aircraft will navigate by radar scopes showing terrain and distant landmarks. Radar altimeters would provide precise altitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army and Navy
Office of Scientific Research and Development
End of World War II Outlook as Tokyo Surrenders
Dewitt Mackenzie outlines that Tokyo offered surrender while preserving the throne signaling Japan’s defeat. He notes Allied restraint with atomic bomb pauses, Halsey’s carrier strike against Tokyo, and concurrent Soviet offensives. The piece warns Japanese forces in Manchuria and Northern China face capture and potential postwar labor use, while contending that any continued continental fighting would be brief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Tokyo
Japan
Germany
Bull) Halsey
Manchuria
Tokyo Radio
Outer Mongolia
Inner Mongolia
Yellow Sea
Red Army
China
Russia
Jap Sailors Not Safe Even When on Shore
Washington reports that Japanese sailors remain vulnerable to American submarines even while ashore. The Navy described Bowfin spotting a Japanese cargo ship near a pier at Daito Shima in the Nanpo Shoto Islands and torpedoing it, destroying the pier and a bus carrying naval personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Americ Gah
Navy
Daito Shima
Nanpo Shoto Islands
Racial Propaganda and Imperial Japan’s Color Mission
Excerpts reveal Japanese wartime propaganda positioning Asia's colored races as destined to overthrow white rule. Text cites calls for extermination of whites, praise of Japanese power, and plans for East Asia under Japanese hegemony, with quoted officials urging removal of nonconformists and mobilization for a new world order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Asia
Jepat
India
England
Toraharu Okuta
Tokyo
East Asia
Takeya Fushimi
Hidejiro Nagata
Gen
Sadao Araki
Family News From Athens and Surroundings Past and Present
Mrs. H. D. Henry returns from California with daughter Mrs. R. W. Finsterwald and children Jane and Don Finsterwald after visiting Yellowstone Park. Mrs. Hoskins, formerly Virginia Segar of Newport News, arrives in Athens with husband Dr. C. Re Hoskins. A farewell party honors Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Saylor as they move to Clay, West Virginia. Neta Stouffer embarks on an eight day motor trip to Virginia Beach via Washington, D. C. Twenty years ago H. L. Atkinson and cousins end a motoring trip from Hamlin. County Detention Home case ends with social services review. Chauncey visit: Carl Shafer and granddaughter Rita Ann Simpson spend weekend in Columbus with Clifford Shefer family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Henry
R. W. Finsterwald
Jane
Don Finsterwald
California
Yellowstone National Park
C. BR. Hoskins
Virginia Segar
Newport News
Athens
C. Re |Hoskins
A. Copeland
Paul R. Saylor
The
Christian Church
Mrs. Saylor
Clay
W Va
Neta Stouffer
Virginia Beach
Washington, D. C
Columbus
Chauncey
Carl Shafer
Rita Ann Simpson
Clifford Shefer
Martha Sue
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National Gallery
James McNeil Whistler
Diod
Douglas Larsen
Thames Jeffer
Hal Boyle
Manila
Hirohito
Air Transport Command
West Coast
Pacific Zones
Council of International Affairs
Nanking
Teiichi Muto
Toyko
Yosuke Matsuoka Io
John Latham
Greater East Asia
Ichiro Kimishina
Bank of Chosen
New East Asia
Tsukasa Kato
Military Affairs Bureau
War Office
Shigetaro Shimada
Athens Cass
S. M. Johnson
N. Congress St
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