North Carolina Money Gap Hinges on Home Capital and Risk
North Carolina faces a capital shortage at home despite wealthy residents. Outside investment funds are driving major ventures, while locals rarely back new industries. A $3,000,000 coal deal shows outsiders funding eastern projects, with potential gains lost to external interests. The piece urges home capitalists to invest locally to diversify and strengthen the state economy.
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North Carolina
Michigan
Fields are white for harvesting in spiritual service
A sermon recalls Jesus teaching that fields are white for harvest and urges daily readiness. It contrasts worldly church power with true service, cites wartime chaplains who sacrificed for soldiers, and emphasizes endurance, grace, and prayer as core Christian virtues.
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John
High Point
America
Oklahoma
Great Plain
Manitoba
Canada
Jesus
Isaiah
Atlantic
Industrial location trends in postwar North Carolina cited
RE. BR. French and S. C. Clark discuss postwar industrial siting as Reds and Yanks clash and security talks unfold. They cite F. H. McDonald on city growth and note page 72 item No. 17 about hospital facilities as a driver for attracting new industries to North Carolina cities after the war.
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San Francisco
RE. BR. French
F. H. McDonald
S. C. Clark
North Carolina
Town Voices on Schedules and Civic Duty
Residents comment on late buses and delays along Washington and Main streets while discussing salvage paper drives clothing drives and local sports. A tribute statement from Ernie Pyle’s widow concludes the page with shared grief and communal memory.
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Washington
Main Streets
A. C. Brooks
Health ethics in presidential medical reports debated
An opinion piece argues for transparency in the president's health, noting ethical conflicts between medical confidentiality and public right to know. It cites Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire and dates of reports in 1944 claiming satisfactory health, while noting ongoing discussion.
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Army
Roosevelt
Ross T. McIntire
Ross T.oihuire
Public health records for the president urged by columnist
By George Sokolsky argues for a formal, public policy and congressional action to disclose the president's health. He cites Roosevelt era concerns, calls for a joint congress and American Medical Association review, and asserts the president's health affects public life and policy.
Ghosts and death drives in Japanese wartime tactics
A wartime report claims Japanese forces in Okinawa sought to haunt enemies after death, citing radio intercepts and Nazi German copies of the kamikaze doctrine. It describes morale tactics and the belief in dying for a greater spiritual cause, noting pilots aged twenty to thirty and the Navy's role in urging desperate, kamikaze-style attacks.
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Okinawa
John Brown
United States
Orechika Anami
Wartime Opinion Advocates Rough Treatment of Hirohito
Albert Leman argues that Allied forces should escalate against Japan by targeting Hirohito’s palace to shatter the Mikado myth. He notes past Allied restraint and cites Wang Shih-Chieh of Chungking as urging drastic action to erode Japanese will to fight.
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Wang Shih-Chieh
Chungking
Broadway Scene Hears From Press at City Confab
In a lively report from the Mark Hopkins session, figures like Mayor Roger Lapham and Senator Vandenberg mingle with reporters, entertainers, and social notes. Notables include Katherine Dunham, Rudolph Frim, and Doris Duke connections as Hollywood chatter fills the lobby.
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Mark Hopkins
New York
Roger Lapham
Confab
Fielding Eliot
William Shiver
Drew Pearson
Earl Wilsons
Kaltenborns
Palace Hotel
Senator Vandenberg
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Katherine Dunham
Opera House
Rudolph Frim
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Fringe sketches from a United Nations conference night
A collage of notes on speakers and antics at a Blue Room event in the UN conference era. Descriptions include Vincent Sheehan’s improv, Bankrage remarks, video highlights, and a playful backstage scene with Johnny Stone’s misread scribbles.
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Bankhage
David Wills
Ed Tomlinson
Mae'ing
Johnny John Stone
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