Battle for Italy intensifies as allies close on Rome
Allied and German forces clash near the Cassino area as Fifth Army pushes toward supply routes feeding the defense. In the Pacific, U S forces clear sea lanes to China after a Marshall Islands victory, while America expands rubber production in the Amazon and plans a massive Arabian oil pipeline project with major oil firms to bolster wartime fuel supplies.
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Italy
Pacific
China
U. S
Marshall Islands
Rome
Eternal City
Fifth Army
Cassino
Europe
French
English Channel
Key
Housing surge after war to require two million new homes
John Blandford of the National Housing Agency told the Associated General Contractors that two million new homes are needed immediately after the war to house married servicemen and families now doubling up. Additional housing at 600,000 per year will be required for replacements. Civilians will receive slightly less condensed and evaporated milk this year as the War Food Administration announced. An allotment of evaporated milk and condensed milk was set from stock totaling over three and a half billion pounds, with military supplies rising to nearly one trillion pounds.
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Amazon
U. S
Brazil
Pearl Harbor
Orient
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Lend-Lease
John Blandford
National Housing Agency
Associated General Contractors
War Food Administration
Washington
Food Administration
Grain Stocks and Rail Strain Signal Slow Spring Movements
Rail movements surge as farmers push to move grain and fertilizer before planting season. Box cars diverted to Canadian feed tighten rural rail facilities. CCC reports January wheat stocks at 87 million bushels and corn at 1 million, reflecting shortages. Since July 1948 CCC bought 146 million bushels of wheat, with 95 million from Canada. wheat sales total 230 million bushels. Meanwhile, Nikopol in Nikolaev region sees heavy fighting as Russian forces press eastward, threatening a possible Nazi pincer on Red Army positions near prewar Poland, with fighting also intensifying north of Leningrad and along the Pripet Berezina corridor.
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Great Lakes
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Ukaine
Nikopol
Russia
Poland
Baltic
Leningrad
Pripet
Berezina
Baltic States
Vets Redrafted as Army Restores Old Ranks in Shift
Discharged veterans fully recovered are being redrafted under selective service rules but not for overseas duty. The Army urges thorough checks against lowered standards to meet manpower needs and restore old ranks amid changing disability criteria. Also notes wartime inflation in China and a humorous anecdote from Algiers at WAC quarters. Senator Downey receives a harsh tax complaint postcard from a constituent.
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Army
Truck rates and shoe rationing shape mid-20th century policy
The Supreme Court warned against transplanting single form rail based rate rules to trucking and noted each transport form has unique rate making challenges. It cited rail carload weight advantages and trucking competition. OPA projects 25 million monthly footwear pairs with 2 percent per person annually. Leather tightness and rising army demand persist. Stamp No. 1 remains valid to May 1 and No. 18 indefinitely.
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Supreme Court
High Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
OPA
Midtown Vignette and Hollywood star sightings mix with theater notes
A vivid collage of high society glimpses in midtown Manhattan and beyond. Greta Garbo delights diners with sugar on every dish in a Hungarian restaurant while Gov Bricker and wife dine near the Persian Room. Actors, performers, and industry names surface in clubs, on radio, and at Tiffanys, with theater reviews and witty quips from Winchell and critics shaping the scene.
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Greta Garbo
Gov. Bricker
Talu Bankhead
Club 18
Poon Lim
Ripley's
Turhen Bey
la Hepburn
Vienna
Choo-Choo Johnson
Violet Lynch
Homer Capehart
U. S. Senate
Ind
Bette Davis
Mater
Incognito
Delly
Onic
Washington Food and the War Mobilization Mix Up
Washington real estate dealers sidestep price caps by making tenants decorate rooms. A wartime brief covers farm machinery, hog pricing, and food priorities amid conflicting directives. Various officials clash over deferments, production, and supply lines as hogs stockpile and prices shift under wartime controls.
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Washington
Ed Stettinius
State Department
Ralph Brewster
Maine
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Rabaul
New Britain
Standard Oil Company of
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Kuwait
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Smith
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Oveta Hobby
Maj. Westray Battle
Maj. Battle
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Frank Warren
Midtown
Earl Carpenter
Hollywood
Carpenter
H. G. Gardiner
Tiffany’s
Carl Laemmle Jr
E. Chodorov
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Wilmington del
Winchell
Naples
Carole Landis
Myrna Loy
Norma Shearer
James Stewart
Henry Armetta
Ben Bernie
Joe E. Brown
Arthur Clifford Read
FBI
Camp Croft
N. Y
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Ladies Home Journal
Fletcher Henderson
Lulu Bates
Argentina
M. Lincoln Schuster
Geo, Santayana
D. Green
Stork
Frankie
Manhattan
52Nd Street
Park Avenue
Photog
Lexington
Washington, D. C
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War Mobilization Committee
War Food
Marvin Jones
Judge Jones
WPB
Donald Nelson
Nelson
Jones
Patterson
Peathe Fotanth
Veronica Lake
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Oeper
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