OPA predicts quick return of consumer durables to prewar prices
Washington reports the OPA states nearly all consumer durable goods will return to prewar or near prewar prices. Bowles says industry and distributive trades can expect excellent profits from high sales volume as prices stabilize. Ceilings are set on washing machines ironers and aluminum kitchenware with production lag for ironers expected after January.
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OPA
Bowles
Max Hall
Federal Housing Administration
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General Electric
Bridgeport
Conn
Automotive Council For War Producion
WPB
Commerce Department
CPA
Chester Bowles
When Can We Get New Tires Aboard The Photo Film Curb
The piece riffs on long supply lines from tires to film and even jokes about workers. It notes a plant suggesting female employees become cooks and questions whether enough can openers will exist. It hints at traveler Snaps in Japan preparing for a company nobody likes.
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Seaiman
Pacific
Rupert P. Johnson
van Buren
Ark
Japan
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Astoria
Ore
Uncle Sam
Yanks View Tokyo as Modern After Occupation Efforts
American troops occupying Tokyo will see a city rebuilt after the 1923 earthquake with modern fireproof buildings. The emperors palace sits on extensive private grounds near Marunouchi, central Tokyo, reflecting a blend of history and rebuilt modernity.
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U. S. Army of Occupation
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Japanese Diet to Meet Sept. 2 and 3
The Japanese Camel News Agency reports an extraordinary Diet session will convene September 2 and 3. FCC recorded Tokyo remarks noting calls to address post surrender problems. Morino says Japan must shed old ways, master science, and rise anew from the ashes as a unified nation.
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San Francisco
Japanese Camel News Agency
FCC
Tokyo
Japan
Masayoshi Morino
Toyko
Morino
Asia
Stalin declares Kwantung army surrender ends rapid Far East campaign
London Aug 23 Gen Josef Stalin announced in an order of the day that Japan's Kwantung army has surrendered. He said Soviet Far Eastern forces, with Mongolian forces, pressed a brief drive, occupied Paramushiro and Usyuryu in the Kuriles, and advanced over 310 to 575 miles in the campaign, signaling a swift end to hostilities. Emperor Rang Teh and the puppet Manchurian government have quit office.
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China
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Burma
Chiang
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W. R
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Kuriles
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Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Kyril A. Meretskov
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Ivan Yumashev
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Okinawa
Manila
Tokyo
Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Atsugi
Imperial Palace
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Yokosuka Naval Base
Pacific
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Sprua Fifth Fleet
Quisling accused as traitor by Norwegian Jewish survivors
Oslo reports Norwegian Jews who endured Nazi camps in Poland returned to accuse Vidkun Quisling of sending 1,000 relatives to death. Witnesses testified of torture, gas chambers at Auschwitz, and Quisling’s involvement or tacit consent, while a Norwegian officer said Quisling knew of the 1940 invasion and ordered the arrest of King Haakon.
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Poland
Vidkun Quisling
Wuisling
Norway
Quisling
Dr. Eitenger
Germany
Hitinger
Auschwitz
Josef Lerboven
Terboven
Adolf Hitler
Mier
Hans Hjort
Hjort
Oslol
Haakon
Sweden
Samuel D. Hales
Joseph Terboven
Karl Doenitz
Hitler
Oren Harris telegram on closing Southwestern Proving Ground 1945
Congress man Oren Harris reports War Department orders to close the Southwestern Proving Ground as an Army operation with most personnel to be released within weeks. The site may be offered to the Navy, declared surplus, or turned to the RFC. Explosives to be removed first. veterans and former owners to have chances to repurchase. An airport of $1,300,000 likely to be kept for city use. Potential Camden rocket storage discussed. Aug 24 1945 Washington.
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Southwestern Proving Ground
CAA
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the Star Today
Oren Harris
Ordnance Branch
War Department
Navy Department
Camden
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Navy
Proving Ground
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