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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1943
Page
3
U S agriculture records a 1942 peak driven by favorable weather and a wartime plan. Beef pork eggs milk and vegetable oils hit new highs while 1943 goals rise and shortages loom. Labor fertilizer and equipment limits threaten the next year as civilians face rationing potential.
Wartime has altered radio as civilian receivers halt production while retail sales continue from reserves. Television tapers. four hours weekly per New York and Los Angeles transmitter. Short wave stations are government controlled in the anti Axis effort. Office of War Information joins station owners. Army hour leads the broadcasts. Blue Network becomes independent from NBC, under FCC rules awaiting court ruling. Women in broadcasting increase. 60,000 amateur stations go silent. Scarcity of replacement gear sparks conservation to avoid shutdowns.
The 1942 arts scene stayed strong despite wartime demands and reduced new movements. Painting and sculpture showed little novelty with many works eight years old, while music remained resilient and the Federal Music Project aided democratization. Book publishing shifted toward war themes and Marion Hargrove’s See Here, Private Hargrove sold 280,000 copies, with other war books appearing but overall output below previous wars.
Across nations religious life reflects war and policy as leaders vow liberty and just peace. Catholic and Dutch reform leaders issue a joint pastoral letter against Nazi labor service while William Temple becomes Archbishop of Canterbury urging a dynamic peace and a peoples charter. In Norway clergy face Nazi pressure and arrest, while India sees rising Hindu Muslim tensions and the U.S. Bible production surges as wartime strain reshapes faith.
The 1942 wartime year marked women’s expansion into global roles as WAACS SPARS and WAVES joined military service while thousands nursed near front lines in Australia Africa Iceland and Ireland. Women pilots ferried planes in England and the U S as the workforce surged into war industries and auxiliary roles. The Manpower Commission created a wartime women’s policy committee, and millions more women entered critical civilian work, closing the year with plans for expanded contribution.
The film industry adapts to wartime limits with stars joining the military or aiding productions. By 1942 about 3,500 workers entered service and Hollywood created 200 training films. The Hollywood Victory Committee coordinated talent for troop entertainment, with 1,051 players making patriotic appearances totaling 4,000 performances and 900,000 miles traveled. Government funding and cost limits, including a $5,000 cap on set costs and reduced celluloid, signal fewer films and fewer double features next year.
The year sees neoprene synthetic rubber and raincoat plastic from safety glass promising to cut natural rubber use. Other 1942 gains include new fuels, fibers, medical therapies, and a betatron device for high energy electrons, plus nutritional cancer research and hormones aiding prostate cancer. Astronomical data hint stars forming from dust clouds.
The St Louis Cardinals surged to 47 wins in 57 games to overtake Brooklyn and capture the National League pennant, then defeated the Yankees four games to one in the World Series. Ted Williams led American League batting while boxing, racing, and tennis crowned new champions amid wartime cancellations.
A broad survey notes America shifted to a wartime economy under Krupp Ikeda and Mitsubishi influences. It highlights drastic business reorganization, rising profits before taxes but heavy tax hits, and growing living standards despite shortages as mobilization continues into 1943 with more workers, scarce civilian goods, and tighter controls ahead.
In 1942 New York theater pivoted to entertainment and nostalgia amid wartime realities. Musicals, revivals, plays about olden days, and disguised burlesque drew crowds as actors like Eve LeGallienne, Joseph Schildkraut, Lillian Gish, and Katharine Hepburn returned. Life With Father neared 1,300 performances while Tobacco Road and Be's Irish Rose led endurance, and Wine Women and Song faced indecency scrutiny.
U S education weighs combining last year of high school with first year of college as enrollment falls 14 percent nationwide and 21 percent in some teacher training schools. Victory Corps expands, 2000 high schools join, funds for student loans and war vacation time approved, while 760000 students take 5 12 week wartime training courses.
In 1942 labor fused into a production army with minimal disruption. Eight months saw only 3,156,077 man-days lost to strikes, about one sixth of 1941. Unemployment fell to 1.6 million. employed rose to a record 52.4 million. Women workers grew from 12.3 to 14.3 million, wages stayed high, and labor faced 1943 regimentation. The War Labor Board enforced no-strike pledges and maintenance of membership. The AFL CIO split persisted, with John L. Lewis resigning from CIO leadership amid political shifts in Kentucky and West Virginia. Senate resistance blocked restrictive labor measures.
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