Allied Forces Meet Bitter Resistance In Sicily Battle
Major clash in Sicily as Gen. Patton's Seventh Army presses north of San Stefano while Montgomery's Eighth Army eyes German forces in the plains. Eisenhower codes five points for Italy's postwar path as Japanese supply through coastal barges challenges Allied air power.
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FDR Outlines Six Point Postwar Demobilization Plan
President Roosevelt unveils a six point program to aid servicemen after war to prevent unemployment and poverty. It covers muster out pay unemployment insurance education credits pensions hospitalization and rehabilitation and disability pensions. The address also notes Mussolini's ouster as the Axis first crack in Italy’s democratic reconstitution.
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Week's News Highlights Amid Storms and War End Talk
A hurricane battered Texas cities including Houston and Galveston with 13 dead and 1000 injured. damage pegged at ten million dollars. Army supervised students may play college football. Adoption demand rises as childless couples seek babies. In London, bettors wager heavily the European war ends before year’s end.
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Texas
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Ford 80th Birthday Echoes Industrial Motive
Henry Ford celebrates his 80th birthday while back in control of Ford plants after Edsel's death. He stresses community welfare, industry growth, and economic freedom as core goals guiding the good society. The Commodity Credit Corporation moves to stabilize grain markets with large buy plans.
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Geography And War End Forecast From Washington View
A Washington column argues the Pacific war will extend to 1949 with base losses and island-hopping, noting Munda, Bougainville, and Rabaul as Japan strongholds. It contrasts Allied advances with the vast distances to Tokyo, and jokes about wartime daily life while pondering postwar food goals and farm output.
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1949
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Lightweight materials used in Shoe Soles
Brief notes report shoes are now made with soles from plastic felt wood and fabric blends. At Douglas Aircraft women workers have released men to the armed forces with a plant staffing 59 percent women. The third war loan target is 15 billion dollars. Italian coal supply worsens as RAF raids Ruhr prompting a 40000 ton salvage effort at Trieste harbor.
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