War Production Surges as UK Fights Back in Singapore
U S war output accelerates with ship launches and tank transports while Churchill faces a heavy defeat in Singapore. Ford builds engines for planes as registration pushes a larger army. British actions in Malaya reveal rising losses and Japanese counter-attacks.
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U. S
Churchill
Singapore
France
Libya
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Prince Eugen
Brest
England
United States
Channel Sea
Heligoland Bight
Fahore
Britain
Malaya
Nippon
Tigers and the Burma front air war feats reported
General Claire Chennault and his American Tiger squadron, famed for downing 48 Japanese planes in two days, led efforts to keep the Burma road open. The piece recalls 185 enemy planes downed in two months, mentions MacArthur awarding the DSC to Leroy Anderson, and notes broader WWII supply and defense pressures including rubber and petroleum concerns.
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Claire Chennault
Burma
Chennault
Chiang Kaishek
Clair Chenault
Texas
Tiger
Burma Road
Tigers
U. S
China
Thailand
D.S.C
MacArthur
Leroy C. Anderson
Tank Corps
Milwaukee
Anderson
Andersen
Frank Hewlett
New Britain Island
Australia
Macas- Sar
From Defense to Offense is a Tough Job for U. S.
The piece outlines U S economic warfare led by BEW to cut off Axis supplies, citing Argentina steel, rubber and other strategic moves. it notes wartime social changes in Washington and a humorous subplot about the Old Gray Squirrel and Steve the peanut stand near the White House, showing how disruption eased after construction ends.
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WNY Service
N Street
Washington, D. C
Oval Office
United States
White House
Singapore
Gibraltar
America
Blue Eagle
NRA
Board of Economic Warfare
BEW
Argentina
War Production Board
South America
Amazon
Washington
Presidential Grounds
Gray Souirrel
Elm
Steve
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lafayette Park
Lafayette
Senator Vandenberg leads probe push after Normandie disaster
Washington reports Senator Vandenberg heading a group demanding a formal probe into the Normandie disaster, described as second only to Pearl Harbor. In New Orleans Mardi Gras was canceled and crowds instead funded bonds, lending to Uncle Sam.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Normandie
Pearl Harbor
New Orleans
Uncle Sam
Briefs on wartime labor and economics shift
A 1940 note cites 950000 women as experienced workers seeking jobs per the census and slated to fill wartime labor gaps. It argues a new value basis replaces old flattery, strips away inflated worth, and remarks on post tax red ink concerns for government finances.
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War Production Board
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BROWN
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U.S.S. Gherardi
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Alabama
Portsmouth
Knox
U.S. Burma
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Byrd
Tydings
Jesse Jones
Donald Nelson
Brewster
Maine
Truman Committee
LaGuardia
OCD
Seaboard
United Nations
Herry Goebbels
Buenos Aires
Baukhage
LD. S. Relief Society
Tanner Company
Weot
Salt Lake
W. Deroad
Balt Lake
Ee Quish School OF
West
South Main
Salt Lake City
Utah
Otarion
Salt Lake EL McIntyre
Utarion
Turkey
Salisbury
Murray
Ramshaw
Utah Pioneer Hatcheries
South State Street
W.N.U
Raleigh Cigarettes
Adv
North Pole
Venglees
Ecclesiastes
HOTEL
Ben Lomond
Ogden, Utah
Rotary
Kiwanis—Executives Exchange—Optimists
Chamber of Commerce and
Ad Club
Ben Lomond Ogden
Uta Hubert E, Visiek
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