War Speech by Senator Byrd on War Preparations and Bureaucracy
Senator Harry F Byrd delivers a wartime address urging rapid national mobilization and the abolition of nonessential federal agencies. He criticizes peace time privileges, calls for a single War Production Director, a 45 hour workweek, and a unified labor policy. He argues for cutting nondefense spending by about two billion dollars to fund essential arms, ships, tanks, and bombers.
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Pearl Harbor
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Britain
England
Donald Nelson
British
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Atlantic
National Labor Relations Board
U.S
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Virginia
Camp Pickell
United States Employment Service
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War Production Board
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Australia
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Work Projects Administration
Department of Agriculture
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Whirlaway Sets Derby Mile and a Quarter Record
Whirlaway won last year in 2 01 25 to establish a new mile and a quarter Kentucky Derby record in Louisville. The previous record was 2 01 45 by Twenty Grand in 1931. The Derby route was a mile and a half prior to 1636 before adjustments.
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Louisville
Whiraway
Army medical care praised as best in world
NEA Service report from Fort Meade details the U S Army medical corps superiority with graduates from Class A medical schools and top national staff. It cites sulfenilimide use reducing pneumonia deaths, plasma injections lowering shock fatalities, and common ailments like colds and sore throats. Convalescents receive Red Cross supervised recreation and hikes in a large station hospital.
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Eleanor Ragsdale
NEA
Fort Meade
Ston
U. S. Army
Medical Corps
Red Cross
Remarkable Red Cross Hospital Activities Under Mrs Grace Garvey
Under the leadership of Grace Garvey a Red Cross assistant field director soldiers enjoy parties movies entertainments and games. Sunday services are held in the hospital chapel with stained beams and a converting altar while an organist plays. Guards enforce ward discipline as ambulatory men access special room uniforms only with discharged slips.
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Grace Garvey
Red Cross
Texas golf star to appear in full-length film
Hollywood reports Ben Hogan has passed a movie test and will be featured in a full-length film soon. A scientist predicts future social changes in 100 years, noting blonde Self in the country may vanish. MacArthur's arrival in Australia triggers hopes to join the general in action, with guards ensuring no escape.
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Hollywood
Calif
Ben Hogan
Texas
War sacrifice too long to join air corps
CHICAGO. Seven months ago Fred Shook, Chicago Cardinals lineman, tried to join the Army Air Corps but was turned down because of his 240 pounds. After seven months of two meals a day with no potatoes or bread and pounds and was accepted.
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Chicago
Fred Shook
Chicago Cardinals
Army Air Corps
Presidents honored with forests named for four U.S. leaders
National forests bear the names of Presidents Washington Lincoln Cleveland and Roosevelt. The article notes the honoring of four presidents by naming forests after them.
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United States
Washington, Lincoln
Cleveland
Rousevell
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