Auburn's Ways Best Against Boston College Victory
Auburn's 28-0 win over Manhattan and a slate of major college results highlight a day of college football. Tulsa, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Yale, Notre Dame, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, and other teams posted decisive victories or key conference titles as contenders sharpened their championship cases.
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Boston College
Crusaders
Manhattan
TULSA
Glenn Dobbs
Creighton
Ohio State
Buckeyes
Michigan
Wisconsin
Badgers
Les Horvath
Paul Sarringhaus
Wolverines
Minnesota
Pat Harder
Dave Schreiner
Yale
Howie Odell
Harvard
Hugh Knowlton
Ted Hoopes
Corwin Clatt
Notre Dame
Northwestern
Otto Graham
Indiana
Purdue
Ilinois
Great Lakes
Detroit
Arkansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Huskers
Kansas State
Iowa State
Rice
Texas Christian
Horned Frogs
Baylor
Southern Methodist
Paul Governali
Scrap Drive Helps Tin Can Campaign Boosts Industry Reach
The article notes a nationwide scrap drive tied to the nations tin can industry with 25,000 trucks and a million and a half retail outlets. It mentions fuel waste from dirty spark plugs and references World War II frontline events including Axis setbacks at Stalingrad and Ordzhonikidze, plus Red Army gains and a naval raid on the Black Sea with minimal losses.
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Natoi
War Production Board inventories 500000 pieces of equipment
The War Production Board will inventory approximately 500,000 items of idie construction equipment to create a coordinated marketplace for buyers and sellers.
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Idie
War Production Board
Black Market Rumors Flourish Under Present Ration Plans
Washington dispatch reports vigorous official denial of a thriving black market while noting local shortages of coffee meat sugar tires and gasoline. Officials say wartime controls curb illicit trade though some bootlegging and dishonest resales persist. cases and penalties rise as public support for wartime sacrifices remains high.
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Frank I. Weller
Washington
Europe
Rum Runnear
Waxy Gordon
Waxy
Florida
Pennsylvania
Marines Repel Jap Tank Assault At Matanikau River
In heavy combat near Henderson Field the Marines repelled a dawn assault as Japanese tanks and infantry attacked the Matanikau river mouth. Artillery and dive bombers countered, nine tanks fell by midnight, and by dawn the U S Marines held the line with minimal gains by the enemy.
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Henderson Field
Matanikau
William McKelvey
Washington, D. C
Point Cruz
Lehman to lead American relief efforts in United Nations
Governor Lehman will head American participation in relief distribution for the United Nations. The White House avoided direct promises, but U S supplies could place Lehman in a dominant global relief role. As the richest Allied nation, the United States would largely fund devastated areas, shaping postwar aid dynamics.
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United Nations
Lehman
White House
United States
Help Is Needed Harold Ferguson Builds War Plants Fast
Harold Kingsley Ferguson, industrial engineer and plant builder, speeds wartime factory construction. He designs, builds, and equips plants from standard stock plans, delivering complete operations in 45 to 60 days. His methods, used for Proctor & Gamble and RCA, double capacity for detinning and steel recovery, amid a national push to expand production.
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Pe Tots Ayeen
H. K
Joe
Hitler
Hirohito
Cleveland
Dallas
Los Angeles
Jackson
Tenn
H. K. Ferguson Company
Proctor & Gamble
Radio Corporation of America
Firestone Tire and Rubber
General Electric
Corning Glass
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Defense Plant Corporation
Ferguson
Jeither
United Nations
Europe
Albion
Mich
Ohio Wesleyan University
Austin Industrial Engineering Company
John Patterson
National Cash Register Company
Patterson
New York
Clare, Mich
Wild Life Reservation
A. Kingsley Ferguson
Oman Construction Company
Nashville, Tenn
Eleanor
Ruth
Margery
Evelyn Handcock
HL K
Battle reports and Buna fighting update from Pacific front
Navy Secretary Knox confirmed no duplication between communiques and cited Japanese losses at 28 ships sunk and 10 damaged over three days of sea fighting. Meanwhile at Buna New Guinea Allied forces under MacArthur pressed a fierce second day of land combat as air power resumed after bad weather with bombers raiding Kavieng and targeting positions along the Gona Buna coast.
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Navy
Knox
Buna
Allied
Australia
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
High Command
Gona
Kavieng
New Ireland
Allied advance in Tunisia tightens Axis hold around Tunis
Allied forces in Tunisia report maintaining contact with the enemy with no details of fighting. Berlin radio cited Spanish Morocco sources that British first army under Gen. Anderson reached Hammamet area southeast of Tunis, signaling a possible encirclement of Axis troops. French American columns move from the south toward Sousse while Axis air and sea reinforcements struggle to resist. British submarines and air forces jointly attack Mediterranean supply lines, sinking at least two destroyers and a tanker, likely carrying fuel to Axis forces, as the sunken tanker was noted south of the Aegion.
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Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Libya
Berlin
Spanish
Morocco
R. A. N. Anderson
Hammamet
Tunis
Mediterranean
Sousse
Bizerte
Algerian
Tunis- Bizerte
Nnber
Admiralty Comunique
Italy
Sicily
Turin
Royal Arsenal
RAF
England
Cairo
Bengasi
Eighth Army
Nazi
Africa Corps
Agedabla
el Ageila
Erwin Rommell
Egypt
Bengali
Pierre Laval
France
Eneoy
Algiers
Bone
Paris
Brazzaville
Lake Chad
French Equatorial Africa
North Africa
Taft Urges Civilian Control Of Industry Manpower
Congress urged to keep industrial manpower under civilian control to end current confusion. Taft pressed for centralized oversight of workers, warning action should come at once. Reports from Cairo and Bengasi described RAF bombings in Sicily and Libya as Axis and Allied forces clashed near Tunisia and Egypt.
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Taft
Washington
Congress
Ohio
Jeffers Defends remarks on gasoline rationing stance
Rubber Administrator Willi M. Jeffers told a congressional group he meant no reflection on lawmakers as he defended opposition to nationwide gasoline rationing being financed by taxpayers. He said he would study the program further beyond December while meeting with the committee in executive session and avoiding public comment about supporters.
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Washington
Willi M. Jeffers
Jeffers
York
Rep
Johnson
Okla
Courteo
Jeff
Congress
New York
Weygand Reported Held as German Hostage Escaped
New York Nov 21 Gen Maxime Weygand once Allies Generalissimo and French leader has reportedly been arrested as a hostage to replace Gen Henri Giraud at Koenigstein fortress under German direction. Giraud escaped from a Na prison last spring and later joined American troops in North Africa leading French forces during the Algeria invasion.
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New York
Maxime Weygand
French Republic
Hen Giraud
Koenigstein
Joachim von Ribentrap
Europ
Giraud
Wen
North Africa
Ageria
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Lehigh
Temple
Fordham
Oklahoma
Missouri
Tennessee
Mississippi State
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Kentucky
Vanderbilt
Mississippi
Blondy Black
William and Mary
North Carolina
South Carolina
Miami
Virginia
U.c.la
Washington State
California
Stanford
Oregon State
Oregon
Air Force Service
Russia
Ordzhonikidze
Stalingrad
Red Army
Nalchik
Mozdok
Black Sea
Red Fleet
English Street
North Main Street
South Main Street
Weather Bureau
Ajax
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlanta City
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Harold Kingsley Ferguson
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Weygand
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