Wartime Waste and Yugoslav Conflicts Reflect Wartime Strain
The Burlington Fairchild plant faces charges of waste and delays due to changing Army specs for the wooden Gunner trainer. The piece argues the plant functioned as an experimental lab and stresses the need for clear public accounting. It links European turmoil, Yugoslav faction clashes, and Allied diplomacy shaping postwar influence amid Greece France and Italy.
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Burlington
Fairchild Aircraft
House
Washington
Congress
Army
Russia
Hland
Fairchild
Balkans
Greece
France
Badoglio
de Gaulle
Giraud
S.C
Ladies awaken to subsidy threat and rising prices
A Washington debate notes housewives protest subsidies ending, urging more female political action. The letter mocks the idea of a unified women’s political bloc and cites liquor shortages, the Yankees manager contract, and the Big Ten and Hitler’s Winter Line as contemporaneous items.
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Mary T. Norton
D-Nj
Norton
Washington
Rep. Norton
L.c. V
Demobilized service voices unity in wartime town assembly
Local officials and veterans reflect on civilian roles in the war effort. J G Wilson and Col J W Stark urge teamwork and duty while others discuss WAVEs recruitment, clerk’s office duties, and the Wright brothers origin flight account from December 1903.
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J. W. Stark
Roosevelt Dominates Tehran Meeting Analysis
Washington dispatch notes Roosevelt shaped the Tehran declaration while Churchill and Stalin were alternated in secondary positions. It highlights postponed war details, vague peace aims, and a drive toward a world democratic bloc with loose democracy boundaries. The piece also cites Churchill’s birthday dinner rituals and Roosevelt’s possible bid for a fourth term.
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Washington
Teheran
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Germany
Candy output in 1942 tops two and a half billion pounds
U S confectioners produced more than 2.5 billion pounds of candy in 1942, about 19 pounds for every person, reflecting wartime demand and domestic consumption trends.
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U. S
Portrait of a Man with a Hammer Otto von Habsburg as enemy alien
Otto von Hapsburg is portrayed as a shadowy claim to kingship and an enemy alien on American soil. The piece accuses him of aiding Hungary's war aims, pro Nazi alignment, and political activity in the United States, urging a Senate inquiry into his finances and actions.
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Russia
Britain
United States
Otto von Hapsburg
U. S
Otto
Hungary
America
Washington
Department of Justice
State Department
War Department
War
Hapsburg
Hapsburgs
Senate
Czechoslovakia
Dr. Benes
Herr Benes
Hitler
Goebbels
Benes
Lidice
Danube
Stalingrad
Josef Stalin
Italy
Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel
Rome
Ethiopia
Great Britain
France
Count Sforza
Hull
Mexico
Pizarello von
Transocean News
Gestapo
Brazil
Ott
Anton Retschek
Felix
Tibor Eckhardt
Archduke Albrecht
Aga Yugoslavia
Ludwig
Robert
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Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Europe
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Mihailovic
Josip Broz
Tito
Kremlin
Joe McCarthy
New York Yankees
Will R. Smith
J. G. Wilson
Berlin
Tokyo
Women's Auxiliary of the Navy
Laura Close
John Lumpkin
Elizabeth Beamon
Christ Child
James Minter
Marine Corps
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D.C. Machec
Taylor N. Finch
WPR
J. T. Ryan
Wright Brothers
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Wilbur Wright
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Dare County
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