Weather Forecaster Wins Losey Sword For War Climate Insight
F N Reichelderfer, chief of the U S Weather Bureau, receives the Losey Sword from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences for outstanding meteorological contributions. He argues for a weather forecast unit with every naval and military command, noting weather as war's most uncertain factor and his own 47 years.
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EW York
F. N. Reichelderfer
New York
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences
Losey
Belisarius
Stonewall Jackson
Timoshenko
Reichelderfer
United States Weather Bureau
Northwestern University
Norway
Navy
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
N. J
Bureau
Draft Call Faces Fathers in 43 Washington Notes
A fragment from a 1943 periodical surveys Col Edwin A. Halsey as new secretary of the Senate, his secretive office role and long service from a Virginia farm page to trusted aide. It also reviews Adolf A. Berle’s postwar transport plans and current WWII strategic updates from Casablanca, Rostov, and Berlin, ending with draft projections and South American solidarity with the Allies.
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Senate Chamber
Washington
Col. Halsey
Edwin A. Halsey
Senate
Halsey
Virginia
Astute
Adolf Augustus Berle
A.A.B
Italy
Hurley
Timoshenko
Patrick J. Hurley
Russia
George Washington
Boston
Yorktown
North America
Cornwallis
Kharkov
Rostov
Stalingrad
Marshal Timoshenko
Leningrad
Stalin
Soviet Union
Rio Grande
Cuba
Aurelio Concheso
Moscow
Raoul Herrera-Arango
Mexico
Luis Quintanilla
Gabriel Turbay
Colombia
Alberto Guani
Uruguay
Litvinoff
Ecuador
Venezuela
Latin America
Argentina
Corn Growers to Benefit From 1942 Subsidy Payments
The Agriculture Department preliminarily reports 1942 farm subsidies totaling 595.5 million dollars with corn receiving a record 188.2 million, wheat 133.5 million, and cotton about 78.8 million. Cotton had led payments before 1942, while southern cotton growers receive the smallest share. Wickard notes lendLease aid boosted Russian war effort with shipments surpassing UK deliveries in December. He adds the 1943 outlook foresees Allied needs for about a quarter of all U S food production to support military forces.
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Department of Agriculture
Wickard
War Council
National-American Wholesale Grocers Association
Chicago
Russia
United Kingdom
Crown Princess Martha joins Europe’s playful club on Atlantic flight
On a clipper home to Maryland Crown Princess Martha of Norway joined the Short-Snorters Club by signing a stack of marked dollar bills. Passengers recall her as Mrs Brown while she read a book and chatted amiably, with one passenger calling her the most charming lady met.
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Washington, D. C
Martha
Crown Princess of
Norway
Ae Churchill
Henry A. Walace
England
Maryland
Atlantic
Ragni Ostgaard
Allied Command Moves to Clear Africa and Secure Med Control
Allied command speeds efforts in North Africa and the Mediterranean to seal supply routes and push Axis forces back. Hitler enacts new wartime sacrifices to shore up dwindling manpower as the war widens in Africa and Europe.
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Africa
Mediterranean
Hitler
Hitler imposes compulsory labor service for Germans
Adolf Hitler decrees labor service for all men 16 to 65 and women 17 to 45 with hints of the death penalty for slackers. Observers note Nazi propaganda signals tougher sacrifices as Germany seeks to solve its manpower crisis. Allied estimates require Germany to recruit at least one million more soldiers.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
Hitler
Germany
Australian war casualties reach 2148 in early 1943 total
In Canberra Prime Minister Curtin cites 2148 total Australian battle casualties from war start to 1943 across all theaters, with 6826 killed 23892 missing 9059 known prisoners and 12371 wounded. Pearl Buck warns against political domination and a fascist world order at India independence celebration in New York, fearing global military power may shape peace.
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Canberra
John Curtin
North Africa
Wavell
New York
Pearl Buck
World Order
India
Miss Buck
World Organization
MacArthur reports lower American WW2 casualties in Papuan push
General MacArthur announced American casualties in the Papuan campaign were far below Japanese losses, contradicting earlier claims of a 15 000 Japanese tally. He noted continued raids on enemy bases and Lae as the next target while the navy reported attacks on Ballale Island near Guadalcanal and successful defense of Wake Island.
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Wilhelmshaven
Emden
United States
Hitler
Copenhagen
Denmark
RAF
Germany
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Lae
Navy Department
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Ballale Island
Henderson Airfield
Navy
Wake Island
Rubber program gets 55 percent funding despite clashes
WPB chairman Donald M. Nelson told the Senate rubber committee he ordered 55 percent of the synthetic rubber program to be carried through as rapidly as possible. He said he aimed to aid Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers without harming other war production. The plan would complete 25 synthetic rubber plants at the earliest date. Jeffers had pressed for 65 to 70 percent of the original Baruch program.
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House of Representatives
William M. Jeffers
Army
Navy Loafers
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Jeffers
Senate Rubber Investigating Committee
Nelson
Rubber Administration
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Homer Bone
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