Allied air and ground actions surge across Pacific and Europe
U S airmen attacked a Japanese convoy off Leyte sinking 10 transports and 4,000 troops, while B 29s hit Tokyo industry. In China, Japanese advances near Chungking were checked as Allied forces press the Rhine front. Congress approves postwar highway funding, and new Secretary of State Edward Stettinius replaces Cordell Hull amid another day of global wartime activity.
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Kai-shek
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Danube
Cordell Hull
Edward Stettinius
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General Motors
U. S. Steel Corporation
Hull
Washington expects simpler aid forms for small business
In Washington officials push a budget director Harold Smith plan to reduce government forms for small business while expanding data to aid reconversion after the war. A poll shows UK and US voices favor government control and business independence must be balanced with new statistics and surveys for 1944 manufactur ers.
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Union Trust
Washington, D. C
Ninth Army
Eisenhower
Europe
Washington
Harold Smith
Murray
Sen
Bureau of the Budget
United Kingdom
Atlantic
Smith
England
Meat records set in November at federally inspected plants
The American Meat Institute reports November production reached a record high for beef and veal at federally inspected plants. Total meat output totaled 1 549 090 000 pounds, up 6 percent from October. A Holstein bull calf sold for 775 000 in war bonds in Omaha, with a life insurer purchasing for 380 000 in bonds and Douglas County Dairy Breeders paying 375 000 to acquire and deploy the animal.
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American Meat Institute
Omaha
Douglas County Dairy Breeders Association
Canada faces major crisis over conscription vote
Prime Minister Mackenzie King sought a confidence vote amid a deep crisis over partly conscripting the home guard for overseas service. Quebec led opposition to conscription, pressuring King to honor the pledge against overseas service while he tried to win support with a 16 000 draftee compromise.
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MacKenzie King
Canada
King
Quebec
Kong
London transport tests central entrance bus door design
A London firm experiments with a central entrance bus featuring a pneumatically operated door and a central staircase. Twelve ships a day are said to be launched from the harbor, per Rear Adm. Frederick G. Crisp. Cubans saw snow for the first time when boxes of it were shipped from New Hampshire to Havana last winter. Sunflowers may exceed soy beans as a major cash crop, with sunflowers producing about 600 million dollars annually. Sunflower oil sells for 14 cents a pound and the meal has 53 percent protein content.
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Frederick G. Crisp
Navy Division
New Hampshire
Havana
Wooden Toys That Are Easy to Make
Simple guide shows how to craft a broomstick horse from odds and ends with a hand saw and stencil. Readers can also pursue a toddler bike project using wheels saddles bolts and screws, with pattern 257 providing actual-size parts and assembly steps.
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