War Production Crisis Across Front Line Needs
The piece outlines shortages in tanks radar heavy trucks tires artillery and ammunition plus cotton duck field wire and other critical items. It notes a government survey and an imminent report while detailing manpower shortages and slow production across arms and equipment programs.
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Albert Leman
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
Roosevelt
War Department
Washington
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Germany
Somervell
Wndoubeety
Paul McNutt
Tromone Promises Youthful Vitality for Middle-Aged Men
An ad touts Tromone as a medical formula combining vitamins and hormones to restore vitality and pleasures of youth for middle-aged men. It claims boosts in energy and sexual vigor, with directions on label and availability at Mann Drug and druggists nationwide.
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Mann Drug and
Government timing fuels doubts among workers in key industries
Threats to labor supply arise as government bureaus act late and cities producing vital airplane equipment face labor famines. War Manpower Commission scrambles to recruit new workers while urging old hands to stay, and Commerce issues announcements.
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War Manpower Commission
Now She Shops Cash and Carry
Woman uses cash and carry shopping as a lead into a health ad for Dean's Pills. The copy claims tired kidneys cause backache and other symptoms and urges readers to ask a druggist for Dean's Pills, promoted as a decades old remedy.
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Dean
Changes in Tuberculosis Ideas From Childhood to Diagnosis
Dr. Logan Clendening explains shifts in tuberculosis understanding over 40 years, stressing childhood acquisition, silent early symptoms, and the vital role of X rays and active treatment. He urges family doctor led case finding and regular child examinations to halt progression with rest, nutrition, and fresh air.
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National Tuberculosis Association
Education urged to solve postwar problems at Raleigh meeting
Donald of Washington DC told state leaders on postwar problems and education that better education for the masses is essential to full employment and higher living standards. He noted many adults lack high school training and linked education to increased buying power and farm income.
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Raleigh
Donald
Washington, D. C
Joint
DuShane
National Commission For the Defense of Democracy
America
United States
Trial centred on Hollywood scuffle between Hall and Dorsey party
Jurors were to hear Jane Churchill recount a fight involving Tommy Dorsey Pat Dane and Allen Smiley over Jon Hall at a Hollywood apartment. Churchill testified she and Pat tussled while trying to separate the men and suffered torn clothes and hair pulling. Doctors reported Hall sustained head wounds several stitches and other injuries.
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Los Angeles
Jane Churchill
Tommy Dorsey
Jon Hall
Tommy
Pat Dane
Allen Smiley
Hall
Kansas City
Hollywood
Eddie Norris
Ann Sheridan
Jane
Bernard Pearson
Grand Jury
Jon
Victory plant workers urged to remain at their benches
Local defense plants face surplus status and pending disposal proposals raising fears of job losses. The War Manpower Commission warns of regional labor shortages as critical areas recruit workers, stressing immediate, continued production to win the war.
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War Manpower Commission
Nine Seabees Use Dump Truck To Reach Chicken Dinner
Nine Seabees on a South Pacific island borrowed a dump truck to ride to a mountain-top native family’s chicken dinner. On the return trip in the dark the driver struggled with brake and clutch, but quickly learned them. He shouted for riders to disembark and found only three of the original eight passengers remaining aboard.
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South Pacific
Notice to Creditors In Estate of Mary Lou Petty
Administratrix officer Horace Haworth announces claims against the estate of Mary Lou Petty of Guilford County North Carolina must be filed by October 20 1945. Debts owed should be paid promptly. High Point North Carolina.
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Mary Lou Petty
Guilford County
North Carolina
High Point
Horace
Haworth
N. C
Stettinius Seen as Likely Secretary of State Nominee
President Roosevelt moved to nominate Edward R. Stettinius Jr. to be secretary of state. Senate confirmation was expected quickly as the nation faces urgent postwar diplomacy and the Dumbarton Oaks plan. Stettinius has served as acting secretary since Hull’s hospitalization and would guide policy with Churchill and Stalin amid shifting international talks.
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Washington
Senate
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Speed
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Bny
Dumbarton Oaks
Connally
D-Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wallace
State Department
Stettinius
Hull
Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Europe
Britain
Russia
China
United Nations
Congress
Associates
Argentina
Allied vessel losses through 1943 total 5758 ships
New summary data from Washington shows Allied and neutral shipping losses from the war start through 1943 reached 5,758 vessels totaling 22,161,000 gross tons. U S losses were 753 ships totaling 5,311,000 gross tons. The United States built about 30,000,000 deadweight tons in that period.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Britain
United States
United Nations
War Administration
Maritime Commission
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