Europe News From War Fronts And Tax Debate
Reports describe Allied landings and amphibious moves around Lampedusa and Pantelleria as Churchill voices confidence in victory. U S tax policy debates focus on new revenue measures to close a $16 billion 1944 gap while Roosevelt weighs sales taxes and savings plans amid inflation concerns. Fed warns of $35 billion excess purchasing power. Albert S. Goss warns subsidy schemes threaten inflation, chaos, and food shortages. he favors supply demand balance over price controls.
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Winston Churchill
Axis
Europe
Africa
Italy
Rome
Berlin
Lampedusa
Tunisian
Pantelleria
Malta
Churchill
Roosevelt
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Albert S. Goss
National Grange
America
Senate
Goss
Tightening belts for 1944 warn of tighter rationing and crops down
A U S agriculture bureau forecast warns civilians to expect belt tightening in 1944. It notes vegetable production down 13 percent from last year, freezes reducing apricots, cherries, peaches, plums and prunes, and eggs and livestock likely to fall below current levels. It also cites a planned nationwide pleasure driving ban in Eastern states and possible broader action, with Maj Jubal Parten noting PAC plans may halt pleasure driving in the Middle West and perhaps nationwide.
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Bureau of Economics
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Maj
Jubal R. Parten
The
Petroleum Administration
Major Parten
Middle Western
FDR Warns Axis of Gas Attack Retaliation
President Roosevelt bluntly warned Germany and Japan that any use of poison gas against the United Nations would prompt swift and full U S retaliation targeting munitions centers sea ports and military objectives. He said evidence of gas preparations was being reported with increasing frequency as observers noted parallel warnings from Britain.
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FDR
Axis
Roosevelt
United Nations
United States
Germany
Japan
Highlights from the week in 1944 divisors and fleets
Dividends paid to stockholders reached 292 million dollars in April, down 21 million from the prior year. A naval appropriations bill totaling 24.65 billion dollars for fiscal 1944 passed the Senate and moved to conference. Living costs rose about 1 percent in 60 of 62 cities in the April survey. A peacetime merchant fleet of 15 to 20 million tons under the American flag was envisioned by Admiral Land.
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Senate
House
National Industrial Conference Board
Adm
Emory S. Land
Argentina's Neutrality Policy Persists Amid Revolt
The Argentina crisis accelerates turnover to Pedro Ramirez's cabinet, yet the government pledges neutrality for the present and Loyal co operation with the Americas. Allied air forces strike across the Pacific from the Aleutians to Central China, targeting Kiska Choiseul Munda air bases and Green's Hill as Hupeh Hunan battles continue with air superiority evident.
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Argentina
Axis
Pedro Ramirez
Americas
Ramirez
Arturo Rawson
Ramon S
Pacific
China
Kiska
Solomons
Choiseul Island
Munda
New Guinea
Mubo
Green’s Hill
Yangtse
Hupeh-Hunan
FATHERS Work or Fight Mixup Revealed by WMC Chair
War Manpower Commission head Paul V. McNutt disclosed a mix in applying the work or fight edict leading to some fathers being drafted despite nondeferable status. He said the order required induction of fathers with dependents employed in 170 nondeferable occupations, while selective service rules restrict drafting those not in deferable jobs.
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War Manpower Commission
WMC
Paul V. McNutt
Pledge Exploitation's End Hearts World Postwar Goal
President Roosevelt outlined exploitation-free world as a United Nations postwar objective. He called for fair use of resources to raise living standards and freedom to live, work, worship, and educate children, with equal opportunities for all everywhere. Reports from Holland detail Nazi mass executions after a Dutch army parole threat led to a general strike. Public services and courts halted, factories shut, then killings in squares, until “Good Patriots” ordered resumption to avert further slaughter.
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Roosevelt
United Nations
Holland
Office of War Information
Germany
Air Freight Plans for Future Network Proposed
The Keeshin Air Freight company asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize a vast national and international network of aerial freight lines. The plan proposes service to 200 major U S cities and numerous foreign points through 18 pathways for freight exchanges.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
United States
Keeshin Air Freight Company
British India policy critique and wartime notes
U S Ambassador Bill Phillips returned from India with a blunt report criticizing British policy and Wavell, urging mediation among Indian factions. Roosevelt seeks noninterference despite hoping Britain acts, while public wartime issues unfold. Also Mrs Barber improves army mess kitchens by saving leftovers, and a White House copper wire scarcity hints at Black Market tensions. Gandhi and Indian leaders seek dialogue, but the viceroy declines.
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D. C
U. S
Bill Phillips
India
United States
Field Marshal
Wavell
Phillips
Winston Churchill
Canada
Churchil
Roosevelt
Britain
Burma Road
ARMY
Mary I. Barber
Quartermaster Corps
Kellogg Company
Battle Creek
Lore and Laughs From The War News Recap
A collage of reflections and anecdotes mixing poetry and humor from wartime life. Notes on names and origins, radar history, political quips, and cultural jabs weave through anecdotes about radar censorship, Senate bean soup, Yamamoto praise, and famous writers.
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Telefact
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Grange Head
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Caucasus
Transocean
Novorossisk
U. S. Airmen Strike
White House
Georgetown Electric Company
Baltimore
Mahatma Gandhi
Raj Gopal Chakar
Gandhi
Zea
Don Wahn
Appellos de Reveire
Paul Revere
Polk
Pollock
Herbert Hoover
Huber
General Pershing
Pershin
Pfpershhing
General Custer
Koester
Admiral Dewey
Duce
Charlie Lingbergh
Mannson
Amerigo
Collier's
Mechanix Illustrated
Thomas J. Naughton Auth
Satevepost
Graf Spee
S. America
Dieppe
John L. Lewis
Harry Hopkins
Admiral Yamamoto
Pearl Harbor
Yamamoto
Kremlin
Eadie Doherty
Sullivan Boys
Jack Lawson
Old Chip Record-Herald
Mark Twain
Lawson
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Feathers
Mitchell
Sterling Feather Company
P, Br, Mitchell Co
Cincinnati, Ohin
U. Ss
Wescott & Winks dAtenEniEs
Bumner Town
REA Serum CO
St. Louis
John Deere
International
Des Moines
E. Grand
Iowa
Woodland
Llosa
Shreves
Shreves Medicine Co
Newton
New York City
Davidsons Piano Rept
Oro
Olin
Chicago Tribune
Wheaton
Illinois
Bny
Singer
Barringtom
Hannibal
Barca
Lydia B. Pinkham
Pam
Pink
Ham
WNUN
Totoms
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