Auto Industry Faces Tieup as UAW Demands Wage Hike
The United Auto Workers strike GM with 175,000 members seeking a 30 percent postwar wage increase to sustain wartime take home pay. GM cites current wages averaging $1.18 per hour and resists higher rates, while negotiations continue with Chrysler and Ford. Meanwhile, legal proceedings involve Nazi defendants resisting court authority.
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United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corporation
John W. Gibson
G.M
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
OPA
Pearl Harbor hearings reveal Roosevelt favored Hawaii fleet base
Star witness Adm James O Richardson testifies that Roosevelt preferred anchoring the Pacific fleet at Hawaii to deter Japan, citing objections about transport, security, and operational limits. Prosecutors in the Nuremberg trial outline Nazi consolidation, purge actions, and the regime's paper trail while the Allies push the case.
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Big, Bluff
James O. Richardson
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Hawaii
Richardson
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U. S
Thailand
Dutch
East Indies
Malaya
Philippines
Knox
Burma
China
Samoa
Dutch East Indies
Warn Against Postwar Credit Boom Dangers
A Northwestern National Life report warns that a postwar boom could become a bust if installment credit is expanded too much. With huge demand and more than 100 billion dollars in consumer cash savings, excess credit could dangerously inflate booms. Total consumer credit neared 9.6 billion dollars in fall 1941, about six billion in installment credit.
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Family Economics Bureau
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
UNRRA test of world cooperation in Washington discourse
Washington Digest examines the UNRRA appropriation and its test of American support for world cooperation. It argues that passage signals commitment or isolationism, notes issues from wartime logistics to press coverage, and highlights how aid hungry Europe hinges on U.S. willingness to back an international effort amid skepticism. The piece uses dialogue with a Japanese officer to illustrate misreading propaganda and stresses that peace and stability depend on collective action beyond national borders.
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Senator Salstonstall
Massachusetts
America
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
London
Russia
Far East Advisory Commission
Argentina
Europe
UNRRA
Congress
U. S
V'tal
United States
World Organization
Food Board
Philippines
Radio Awakening Through the Years of Change
The fragment reflects a memory of pre radio days when people linked products like pills ointments or cigarettes with entertainment figures. It hints at cultural shifts as radio became common and altered how advertising and popular culture intertwined.
British plane reaches 606 miles per hour milestone
A British aircraft recorded a speed of 606 mph, while speeds below 406 mph are classified as parked under the current operating norms, highlighting a high performance threshold and a lower-speed parking rule.
Three wheeled bugs to cost about a thousand dollars
An article notes Barbs by Bankhage describing tear drop cars run by airplane engines slated for sale around one thousand dollars. It mentions widespread dubbing and lighter topics while noting DDT usage and labor strikes among lasters in shoe factories. It also highlights large fingerprint card holdings by the justice department and new oil and water resistant coatings for rubber goods.
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