Postwar cars seen as continuation of 1942 designs
Frank Jardine of the SAE surveyed engineers to sketch a second postwar car. Expect gradual change with light weight use of aluminum and magnesium, new materials like plastics for trim, and engines similar to prewar models but more efficient. Aluminum bodies for selective parts. many cars steel-bodied. Prices: $700 base, $2,000 top. fuel economy around 30 mpg for $700 models and 20 mpg for the $2,000 models.
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Saeournal
Frank Jardine
Society of Automotive Engineers
Aluminum Company of America
Jarvie
Ford
Chevrolet
Plymouth
Controversial World War II Memoir Fragmented Exposé
Robert Quillen presents a provocative wartime screed arguing venereal disease alcohol and discipline are military issues. It decries moral reformers while calling for drastic measures against perceived enemies and diseased women, urging hardline control and even dictatorship to save the war effort.
Making Friends in Everyday Life by Joseph Fort Newton
A sixteen year old reader asks if people can be forced to be friends. Dr Newton says friendship grows, not forced, and hinges on kindness and openness. Kinship does not guarantee friendship, yet relatives can still be close. Let individuals choose, foster trust, and avoid pressuring others to form bonds.
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Charlies Kingsley
The Past Blessed by Silence Quote
A reflective adage from George Eliot about restraint in speech and the wisdom of withholding unnecessary words.
War Leaders Demand Action and Military Reform
President Roosevelt presses Congress to act or face a national obligation to end economic chaos that imperils the war. Major General Jacob L. Devers, armored force chief, praises officer candidates and urges decisive field leadership to ensure victory.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Jacob L. Devers
Reopening Schools Shifts Toward Practical Wartime Education
Merryle Stanley Rukeyser argues fall term begins with wartime changes in education. Colleges lose male students to the draft. yet elementary and secondary schools lean toward vocational training. Practical skills like stenography, typewriting, and bookkeeping gain emphasis to prepare youth for modern work and national needs.
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Armed Services of
United States
Net
Keep Fit by S B Heath NEA Writer
If workers stayed healthy, production would gain the equivalent of 150,000 men working five eight hour days weekly. Government experts say about eighty million working days could be saved with reasonable care. A key defense is balanced lunch boxes with nutritious, disease resistant food.
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S. B. Heath
NEA
Petain Denounces Backward-Looking Frenchman
In a terse denunciation, Petain attacks a backward-looking Frenchman amid rising political tension. The remark aims to redirect scrutiny away from the speaker as suspicions arise about current stab incidents and loyalties in wartime France.
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Petain
Rommel Outwitted by New Adaptation of Old Trick
Rommel's drive at El Himeimat pierced British minefields using artillery to trigger mines, but Allied air power and bombing cut his tanks to ruin. Alexander shifted bombers, fuel ran short, and Rommel retired. TheDesert fighting ends as a major Nazi setback. MacArthur communique confusion noted.
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Rommel
Sor E Saat
el Himeimat
Alexandria
Auchinloss
Rezegh
Tobruk
Wendell Willkie
Alexander
Berlin
Hitler
Views on air power clash over Seversky theories
Don R. Berlin counters Major Alexander P. de Seversky's air power theories, defending General Arnold and the army air forces. Berlin recalls Curtiss-Wright design battles showing performance-based outcomes and warns against public attacks that sow uncertainty during wartime.
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Alexander P. de Seversky
de Seversky
Don R. Berlin
General Motors
Arnold
Ceilings on Tips and Banks in the Postwar Era
Henry McLemore argues that in the coming postwar period Americans will impose ceilings on service charges and institutional behavior. He cites tipping limits for barbers and bellhops, stricter conduct by police, and banking errors in favor of depositors, urging practical limits on vendors and institutions. He emphasizes citizen empowerment and accountability.
Calcium and Vitamin D in Catarrh Advice Column
Dr Brady discusses calcium and vitamin D roles in absorption and capillary permeability, notes calcium deficiency in modern American diet, and shares reader testimonials about catarrh improvement. Includes anecdotes on belly breathing, requests for pamphlets, and caution that personal health questions require a physician.
Noes Appear to Have It In Tax Plan Satire
By Arthur Sugs Beer the column mocks a tax plan as a nut factory run by inmates and a jigger complex like a home made watch. It argues the plan penalizes spenders, subsidizes savers, and would lower living standards by half while lampooning Randy Pauli of the treasury.
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