GOP platform favors world peace but shuns a world super-state
The GOP delegates at Chicago press a 1944 platform stressing cooperative action, protective tariffs, and labor rights while rejecting a world super-state. It backs reciprocal trade, soil conservation funding, term limits, and gradual tax reductions, with postwar debt repayment plans.
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GOP
France
Republican Party
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Chicago
U. S
Farm Machinery Output Lags Despite Some Gains
May production shows farm equipment 10.7 percent behind schedule with harvesters 30.5 percent short and combines 30 percent behind. Irrigation gear and wheel tractors, however, run ahead while other war fronts report aerial and naval actions across Saipan, the Marshall and Caroline Islands, and Kuriles.
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Donald Nelson
U. S
Saipan Island
Marianas
Japan
Pacific
Philippines
Magicienne Bay
Saipan
Garapan
Marshall
Caroline Islands
Southwest Pacific
Paramushiro
Shimushu
Kuriles
Agriculture notes large drop in pig crops and rising costs
Government forecasts 1944 pig crop at 87 925 000 with spring output near 56 million and fall at 32 million, a multi‑year low. CCC wheat sales rise to 315 million bushels since July 1943 while remaining stocks fall. CIO cites cost of living surges far above BLS estimates, detailing percentage increases across food, clothing, housing, and fuel.
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Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Canada
States
Argentina
War Labor Board
CIO
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Federal Housing Administration Near End Of Tenth Fiscal Year
The Federal Housing Administration concludes its tenth year with 81 million dollars in reserve after expenses. 1943 income was 26.574 million, expenses 11.102 million, and a 10 million congress grant remains intact. Additional losses funds of 10 million from 1941 are largely unused. Insurance funds rose by 15.472 million, FHA insured 1,055,000 small homes with only 4,047 foreclosures, 26 unsold, and 6,000,000 other homeowners aided through FHA and private loans.
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Federal Housing Administration
Congress
FHA
Small Plants Plan Aims Civilian Output by Small Firms
The War Production Board approves a plan to let operators with under 100 employees produce civilian goods on the same basis as larger industries. Chairman Maury Maverick of the Smaller War Plants Corporation pressed for the measure as a solution to both civilian production and resource use issues.
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War Production Board
Maury Maverick
War Plants Corporation
Mass Guard Bayonet Drill Halted by Haying Urgency
Members of the 24th infantry regiment of the Massachusetts National Guard were drilling in a hayfield near Hingham when an officer announced the leaseholder wanted the field emptied to begin haying before rain. The soldiers promptly evacuated.
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24Th Infantry Regiment
Massachusetts National Guard
Hingham
Whisky output during 30 day holiday limited
A spokesman for the whisky industry says the 30 day WPB allowance to distillers to make whisky instead of industrial alcohol will not produce a large supply. Bottles cartons and barrels shortages will limit output to about 15,000,000 gallons, roughly a month’s demand.
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WPB
Robot planes and German nerves shape wartime morale
Washington Digest discusses radio controlled drones and the morale impact on Germany as Allied forces push in Europe and Japan. The piece notes German propaganda heroes, reports from secret sources about enemy morale, and the strategic use of remote control weapons alongside the B 29 in the Pacific. It also references a new National Geographic map centering Tokio and the aim to maintain pressure on both theaters.
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Caen
Cherbourg
U. S
Montgomery
Germany
Washington
D-day
Hitler
West Wall
Kuriles
Hirohito
Gestapo
Reich Air Ministry
London
Herr Goebbels
Japan
Berlin
Journal de Geneve
Lokal Anzeiger
High Command
National Geographic Society
Tokio
National Geographic Bulletin
Imperial Palace
Marunouchi
National Geographic
Europe
Pacific
Briefer World War II Updates From Europe and Asia
Bankhage notes Caesar would cross greater water today as Dover cliffs retreat. In northern Italy Nazi slave labor recruitment targets unmar ried women 18 to 30, sparking matrimonial rush. Hungary and Balkans scarce in pillow feathers. Nazi bribe is one gallon of gas per feathers worth 15 cents. Japan trains implement regular seat changing signals as passengers swap places.
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Julius Caesar
Britain
Dover
Italy
Hungary
Balkan Countries
Japan
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Leningrad
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Eric Johnston
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Bronx Zoo
Galapagos Islands
Pacific Ocean
Panama
Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU Services
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Bankhage
WNU
DELCO
Kohler
Grant Farm
Farm Light & Service Distributees
Montana Ave
Billings, Mont
Garrett Drug Stores
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Leggat Hotel
Iea
Anna
van Scott Lab
Dearborn
Chge
B. F. Elkins Tool CO
Floydada
Tex
Sahara Desert
St. Joseph
Mar Mart Gar
Paramount
Hollywood
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
Bridgeport
Coon
Eevausce Tar
Doans
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