Radar Opens Way for Scientific Exploration of Stratosphere
Radar contact with the moon by U S army engineers at Evans Signal Laboratory Belmar New Jersey sparked visions of long range missile control atmospheric studies and mapping distant planets. The article also notes congressional battles over anti strike measures and a large steel industry walkout impacting production and government action.
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U. S. Army
Evans Signal Laboratory
Belmar
N. J
Short Sees Withheld Intercepted Messages Hurting Pearl Harbor Prep
Pearl Harbor commander Maj. Gen. Walter Short testified the War Department delayed sharing intercepted Japanese messages, leaving him unable to fully prepare for the attack. He called himself a scapegoat and said a prompt briefing would have given four extra hours to ready defenses. Senate FEPC filibuster stalls civil rights bill while wheat export projections for 1946 affect farmers and industry.
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Naval Base
Walter C. Short
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Marshall
Hawaii
Doctors Help Blue Baby Judy Hackman Leave Hospital After Heart Repair
Two year old Judy Hackman of Buckley Washington left Tala Hopkins hospital Baltimore Maryland after a delicate operation repaired a malformed heart that had threatened her life. Doctors Blalock and Taussig sewed a good artery to a defective one increasing oxygenated blood flow. Judy’s blue lips faded to a rosy color as she recovered.
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Judy Hackman
Buckley
Wash
Tala Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Judy
Blalock
Taussig
South America Seen as Major Oil Source
Ethyl News magazine says some of the world’s greatest oil deposits may lie in or beyond the Andes of South America. It notes South America is already the world’s second largest oil producer and evidence of petroleum runs the length of the Andes. Wartime depletion heightens the case for new deposits, possibly in the snow clad Andes spanning 4,500 miles from Tierra del Fuego to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela.
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Andes
South America
Ethyl News Magazine
Oing
Tierra del Fuego
Caribbean
Vena
Nuernberg
Goering
Keitel
von Papen
Schacht
Germany
Europe
United States
Justice Jackson
Reich
Vets Plan Quick Disposal of Surplus Coors Goods
The War Assets Corporation forms a special division to speed up disposal of surplus goods for veterans. Chicago WAC sets model procedures allowing vets to obtain certificates and be escorted to the item handling department. If unavailable, notifications follow and purchases proceed under OPA ceilings.
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War Assets Corporation
Chicago
WAC
G.I
OPA
Farm prices mirror postwar trends after World War II
The Alexander Hamilton Institute notes prices for farm products have followed a postwar pattern similar to the post World War I period. After World War I ended prices dipped then rose again, and a comparable recession and recovery is seen after World War II.
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Alexander Hamilton Institute
Distance Dims Reality Of Europe s Need of Aid
Washington Digest reflects on Europe’s suffering after World War II and the reluctance of Americans to fund and support reconstruction. The writer argues for trial precedent, democratic values, and German reformation, noting coverage gaps by German press and logistical challenges for wartime reporters.
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Europe
Barbs by Bankhage on Nazis and home life findings
The piece argues that most anti-Nazis come from homes with a dead or invalid father or a father dominated by his wife and notes a decline in fatal home accidents. It cites the Twentieth Century Fund that in 1942 half of farmers received only 12 percent of farm income and quotes the Dean of Canterbury comparing the U.S. to Europe.
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Eye Street
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Cape Horn
Paris
Washington Monument
Cain and Abel
Twentieth Century Fund
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