Japs Foresee Invasion as Yanks Tighten Noose
The Weekly News Analysis notes Japan fears invasion as U S and Allied forces tighten the noose on the home islands. Okinawa fighting continues while U S air attacks target Japanese cities and supply lines. Meantime, at Berlin, occupation plans shift under Allied coordination as Russia presses for territorial grabs. Meat supplies stay tight with a summer shortage, civilian needs prioritized.
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Okinawa
Iwo Jima
U. S
Japan
China
Pacific
Korea
South Pacific
Mileage cuts save vast wartime resources in 1944
State governments reduced official travel by 430,254,600 miles in 1944 versus 1941 prewar figures. The untravelled miles translated to 28,683,000 gallons of gasoline saved and spared 78,228 tires and 7,171 new passenger vehicles for the armed forces in the all-out global war effort.
New Fire Bomb M74 Joins US Fires on Jap Industry
A newly deployed incendiary weapon called the M74 figures prominently in U S fire raids on Japanese industrial centers. The 10 pound tubular bomb disperses a gel with violently inflammable chemicals over targets. One ingredient is goop magnesium powder coated with asphalt mass.
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U. S
Congress Approves Bretton Woods Pact Amid Trade Moves
Congress backed a three year extension of reciprocal trade powers and allowed tariff cuts up to 50 percent while approving Bretton Woods monetary accords. It created an 8.8 billion dollar currency fund and a 9.1 billion dollar World Bank for reconstruction and development to stabilize exchange and support loans. Opponents warned the fund could drain sound currencies and leave unstable economies exposed.
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House
Bretton Woods
United Nations
World Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Berlin After Fire Raze Leaves City In Desolation
US correspondents report Berlin a month after capture as a city of death with ruined streets. Russians press for cleared routes and water piping while 2 million survivors live in cellars on meager rations amid ash and ruins.
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Berlin
U.S
Farm Machinery Production Struggles Amid Material Shortages
Farm machinery firms face parts and labor shortages easing quotas and impendingJuly removal. Gray and malleable castings such as engine blocks and rear axle housings are scarce, risking reduced output of mowers binders harrows plows hay rakes and spreaders. Foundries struggle to hire workers, raising wages, while reconversion benefits from ongoing wartime production and sub contracted component supply.
U S Casualties Across Fronts Reach Over Half Million
U S casualties since D Day total 514 534 across all branches with 89 477 killed 367 180 wounded and 57 877 missing in fighting Germany and allied divisions. Additional losses include 184 512 for British Canadian French and Polish units and about 15 000 to 20 000 missing may be prisoners. Business leaders urge reciprocal trade act extension and debt cancellation to aid postwar recovery.
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Pearl Harbor
U. S
Germany
D-Day
U.S
Washington Digest on Trial of Nazi Bigwigs
Washington commentary outlines the plan for a global war crimes tribunal to try top Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity. Justice Robert Jackson leads U S prosecution with UK and USSR counsels, aiming for speedy action and no delays.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Moscow
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
United States
International Military Tribunal
Supreme Court of the United States
Robert H. Jackson
United Kingdom
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Judea
Palestine
Pontius Pilate
Pentagon
Washington
Justice Jackson
Supreme Court
Europe
War Department
Navy Department
Office of Strategic Services
Jackson
Portraits of Justice and Postwar Economic Pressure
Justice Jackson faces critics while outlining trials in fact not merely named, with a tough staff including Maj. Gen. William Donovan and naval officers guiding the OSS. A separate profile shows U S income payments leaping from 66.2 billion in 1938 to 156.8 billion in 1944, with first quarter 1945 up 5.6 percent as consumer spending nears wartime highs while savings rise, signaling inflation risks after peace.
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Justice Jackson
Jackson
William Donovan
OSS
Sydney Alderman
Southern Railway
Francis Shea
Naval
James Donovan
Gordon Dean
Donovan
Dean
Department of Justice
Navy
Pontius Pilates
United States
Alexander Hamilton Institute
Barbs by Bankhage on wartime propaganda and loans
The government auctions a New Jersey camp seized from the German American Bund and plans a boys camp. German businessmen ask how to apply for postwar loans to rebuild a city. Field Marshal Mannerheim congratulates Stalin on victory over Germany, with Stalin's brief reply. The BBC claims truth proves more effective than lies, questioning Goebbels.
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New Jersey
Bund
Mannerheim
Russia
Stalin
Germany
Answers to a cryptic list with varied topics
A compiled set of items labeled 1 through 8 presents diverse answers from literature to geography. It includes Medusa, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Apex, Newspapers, and Nevada with a population figure, plus directional clues and a Dead Sea reference.
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Equator
Queen of
Sheba
Apex
Nevada
Dead Sea
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Mexico
Ezequiel Padilla Getty
Edward Fr.stettinius
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Congress
Peace Organization
Peg
Luzon Island
Philippines
Senate
Committee For Economic Development
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Studebaker Corporation
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Fry
Bankhage
British Broadcasting Company
Goebbels
Haile Selassie
London
Fleet Street
EAD
Grand Central Station
New York City
Salt Lake City
Utah
Riegler
Little Rock, Ark
Liberty
Qhondaga
Missouri
Lake
Lost River
Meramec River
Leasburg Rd
Bourbon
Ceba
Flat River
Potoal
Onondaga Cave
Leasburg
Sronondaga
AAA
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Guras
Doans
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