Pacific War Pre-Invasion Stage and Postwar Pact Work
U S and British carrier aircraft staged attacks on Japan while naval shells targeted shore facilities. Admiral Nimitz said Allied actions marked the pre invasion phase as Britain’s units joined, with bombings on Honshu. In Washington the Senate moved on the United Nations security charter and Bretton Woods trade measures, amidst a big Three conference near Berlin debating war aims and postwar Europe and Japan terms. The Export-Import Bank expansion faced Senate opposition led by Taft, while OPA probed corn market irregularities as rye stocks tightened and July deliveries loomed.
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Nippon
Wonshu
Honshu
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Truman
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Stalin
Berlin
New World
San Francisco Opera House
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Taft
Ohio
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Kaiser’s Palace
Byrnes
Marshall
King
Arnold
Stimson
Land
Admiral Leahy
Europe
Germany
Pacific
Manchuria
Korea
Formosa
OPA
Brazil region reshuffles highlight its vast size
Brazil formations into five regional blocks spotlight the massive scale of the country. As the largest republic in the Western hemisphere, the United States of Brazil covers over 3,275,000 square miles, nearly half of South America, with land area rivaling a potential second Texas.
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Brazil
United States
South America
Repubic
Texas
Navy rationing aboard carrier lands plenty of food
The Navy reports that a typical aircraft carrier in the Pacific has enough food to supply personnel with a full ration three times daily for 80 days. Ranging from 40,000 pounds of potatoes to 39 ounces of maple syrup flavoring, 153 items fill the large refrigerators.
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Pacific
Protest Revision of Rail Rates Faces ICC Challenge
Ten northeastern states petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to reconsider its August 30 order increasing class freight rates in the East by 10 percent while cutting them the same amount in the South and West. They argue the change lacks evidence of unfair prior tariffs and favors the East's industrial base, while five southwestern states support the move as non-discriminatory and seek minor order alterations.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
East
Truman urges 65,000 railroad jobs to aid Pacific redeploy
In Berlin for the Big Three talks, President Truman urged mobilizing 65,000 civilian railroad workers to speed troop and materiel redeployment and hasten an end to the war with Japan. He noted 12,000 skilled workers are most urgently needed as 4,000 experienced railroad men have been furloughed. The War Manpower Commission granted 17 western railroads priority in interregional recruitment.
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Harry S. Truman
U. S
Pacific
War Manpower Commission
Western Railroads
Fräuleins Remain Reserved Amid Occupation Tensions
Amid civilian wariness, German women still avoid close ties with Americans though interactions persist in France and Belgium. Repatriated soldiers escort many, while open hostility in some areas dampens fraternizing. Meat stocks reach high levels but largely favor the army. other foods show uneven availability with notable egg and dried goods movements. Reparations plans in Moscow advocate directing German war material to claimant nations, funded by existing German wealth rather than new funds.
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Abbattien
Sone
Moscow
U.S
Germany
Radar Saved Britain Will Remodel Industry
WNU Service outlines radar origins and its impact from World War II, detailing how radio direction and ranging technology transformed military air power, aided the Battle of Britain, and promises vast civilian uses in air traffic control, collision avoidance, and safe landings amid fog and clouds.
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England
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Tactical Air Force
Normandy
Europe
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1St Tactical Air Force
Holland
Atlantic
North Pole
Truman era rush ends. Washington calms after war
Washington settles into a rare peacetime rhythm with a long congressional recess after victory in Europe. Returning veterans and civilian workers congest government districts as new White House aides and Battery K veterans seek influence, jobs, and access, while Republicans prepare for 1948 races and Democrats adjust to leadership changes.
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White House
Germany
Europe
Potomac
G.I. Joes
GJ. Jones
Washington
Missouri
Truman
Bob Hannefan
Pauley
Southern
California
Ed Pauley
Capitol
Harry Truman
Senate
Harry Vaughan
Battery K
Tess
Capitol Notebook selects new war mobilization chief
Capitol Notebook reports John W. Snyder of St. Louis named to succeed Fred M. Vinson as director of war mobilization and reconversion. Vinson, former congressman and judge, moves to replace Henry Morgenthau Jr as secretary of the treasury.
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John W. Snyder
St. Louis
Fred M. Vinnon
Vinson
Henry Moreenthau
the Treasury
Barbs in a personal column taps witty reader humor
A fragment from a personal column parodies letters and a joke about mail, a French newspaper remark on G I love making, and a note on domestic shortages and market potential. It mentions Lucy and bean wag sauce and a misplaced insurance slogan.
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G.I
Lucy
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