War economy report reveals strain and planning ahead
The 1943 wartime finance analysis notes Roosevelt calling for $100 billion in war spending through June next year, production up 50 percent from 1942, rising employment and incomes fueling inflation yet boosting savings and retail sales. Taxes fall short of costs as debt nears $170 billion, stock markets drift, and executives shift toward postwar planning amid wartime doctrine.
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AP Financial
Business
Dries Roosevelt
Sogrella
Labor fortunes fall as wartime restraints bite unions
The 1943 labor scene sees sharp reverses with government restraints rising after wartime strikes. Idleness climbs from 2.37 million to 7.55 million man days in six months, led by spring coal strikes. John L. Lewis wins a government concession after pressure, while the War Labor Board's prestige wanes and wage disputes renew.
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Jonala
United Workers
John L. Lewis
U. S
War Labor Board
Organized Labor
Lewis
AFL
Agriculture in 1943 Peak Yields Era Amid War Demands
Agriculture reached a 1943 production peak despite skilled labor shortages and scarce materials. Twenty five percent of output was diverted to war uses, prompting rationing of meat butter cheese canned fruits and other staples. Cash receipts hit a record $19.7 billion, far above 1932. Government efforts to curb inflation via price ceilings and subsidies faced opposition from major farm groups in Congress.
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Merican Agriculture
Congress
Science year 1943 highlights from radar to penicillin uses
A condensed survey lists major 1943 scientific advances and items from radar and rocket tech to new medicines and materials. It notes developments in plastics, synthetic drugs, cancer inhibits, hormones, yeast protein, fuel and water purification, explosives, ship lamps, and sea-water treatment, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AP Science
Science
Navy
War era arts flourish after 1943 push
The piece notes wartime morale programs using arts, with artists and musicians aiding the military. It highlights Army Navy book purchases, overseas editions, and an art organization aiding monuments. It cites expanded Metropolitan Opera season and a revived Detroit Symphony, plus continued fiction and popular war books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Front
Detroit
Year of 8422 Doings and Whacky War Year Notes
A reflection on 1943 with bizarre, humorous, and surprising events. Cops collect for glass in Portland. Newark schoolyard brawl, 12 cops scratched. a Brooklyn man bombards a girlfriend with calls. a cow bears quintuplets in Kansas. a Medford terrier survives a 800 foot fall. fires wake a cat and watchdog rescue. fishes talk in Beaufort. lambing seasons debated. Army buys 75,000 dice. plane flies 2000 miles to Mexico. actresses favor enlisted men. odd political campaigns and quirky domestic tales echo wartime life and foibles as 1944 nears.
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Love
Portland
Ore
Newark
N. J
Marvin Rubin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Beatrice Brown
William Kreutzer
Hays
Kas
Medford
William P. Rosenbach
Oege
Beaufort
N. C
Department of Interior
The
Avy
Idaho
WPB
Ana
Lemming Fhee
Army
Florida
Mexico
Stockton
World War II Year in Review from AP Editors
A retrospective roundup highlights major 1943-44 events: Soviet victory at Stalingrad turning the tide, massive German and Japanese defeats, Italy’s surrender, Pacific advances under MacArthur and Nimitz, Mussolini toppled, U‑boats and coal strikes shaping home front, and Rome, Ploesti raids, and Allied airpower summaries.
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Cairo
Roosevelt
Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Russia
Stalin
Teheran
Casablanca
Washington
Moscow
America
Pacific
MacArthur
Lae
Guadalcanal
Gilberts
Japan
South Pacific
Nimitz
Tokyo
Twelve top stories from 1942 summarized
A year in review highlights key events from 1942 including North Africa securing a second front America offensives in the Pacific Russia counter-attacks and holds Japan carving an empire Tokyo bombing wartime economy in the United States Nazi saboteurs executed the Eddie Rickenbacker rescue and the Dieppe raid Bombers raid Europe and Boston fire tragedy.
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North Africa
America
Pacific
Russia
Japan
U. S
Tokyo
Eddie Rickenbacker
Dieppe
Europe
Boston
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Germany
Caesar
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Conn
Mark Woods
Water Valley
Miss
New Jersey
Fourth Criminal Judicial District Court
Dennis Mullane
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Julie Bishop
War Manpower Commission
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John Barrymore
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Frank Sinatra
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Reich
Charles Honce
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Uncle Sam
J L. Lewis
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Ploesti
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Bernard Baruch
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United Nations
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