A Week of the War Reports Prices and Labor Policy
Government leaders outlined cost savings from price ceilings, subsidies to support them, and ongoing anti inflation efforts. Officials forecast 2 to 2.5 million people may receive price control aid, with WPA restructuring possible as unemployment rises. Housing, food, and wage stabilization measures were discussed alongside military manpower targets and Lend-Lease updates.
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Investment in America Buy Bonds and Stamps
Production is military power and electric power is production. America can produce planes tanks ships and guns to win the war because it has five times the electric power it had in the last war—more electric power than all the Axis countries combined. Thank the quiet competent business men who run electric companies for preparing when war came and keeping the war machine humming toward victory.
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Submarine attack across Pacific fronts reported near Oregon coast
June 21 a submarine presumed Japanese fired six to nine shells into a sandy waste near Astoria Oregon in the second attack on the North American Pacific Shore within 24 hours. Earlier shells hit Estevan Point Vancouver Island as the Navy noted mine sinks near Virginia’s coast.
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