Allied Bombers Hit German Rocket Gun Installations
The column notes heavy Allied air raids over northern France targeting German rocket gun sites while U S and British troops fight in southern Italy for routes to Rome. It also covers Tito's Partisans banning King Peter and pay raises for veterans, plus Soviet and German battles on a wide Baltic front and Roosevelt mediating rail wage talks.
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Red Army
Baltic Sea
Jugoslav
France
U. S
Italy
Fifth
Eighth Army
Doughboys
Tommies
Mark Clark
Rome
Bernard Montgomery
Pescara
Britain
French
Calais
Josip (Tito
Broz
Peter
Baltic
Leningrad
Rice tops all-time production for 70 million bushels
This year Rice production reached the highest level in history at more than 70 million bushels, 48 percent above the ten year average. Eggs supply grows as hens surge into wholesale markets. lack of dried egg program noted. A new super bombing plane claimed superior to the B 29 is entering production per the House Military Affairs Committee chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Military Affairs Committee
Bolivia's New Government Faces Tin Miner Slayings Issue
The Bolivian revolutionary regime moves to compensate survivors of December gunfire that killed 19 tin miners. The United States withholds recognition while weighing if the regime is an Axis-backed coup led by Paz Estenssoro, amid concerns over wartime resources and pro-Allied business ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrique Penaranda
U. S
Paz Estenssoro
Bolivia
Japan
Malaya
The
Indies
Penaranda
Meat packers discount pork under price controls as stocks rise
With U S food storage full packers sell pork below ceiling prices or in carload lots. The War Food Administration plans an order restricting storage of hogs heads bones ox tails tripe hearts livers to ten days without permit. WFA extends price support to 270 to 300 pound hogs because packers seek bargains outside the 200 270 pound range and farmers ship 200 270 pounders for the top price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
War Food Administration
WFA
Watseka man tests corn borer deterrent on fields
John Bell of Watseka Illinois developed a soil treatment mixing fertilizer with minor plant nutrients to make corn stalks distasteful to borers. After three years the product was tested on a 42 acre plot and the treated area produced 22 bushels more per acre than untreated land while remaining non toxic to livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bell
Watseka
Bell
University of Illinois’ Agronomists
Migrations Planned for Britons After the War
The article notes Britons consider resettling in Australia Canada New Zealand and South Africa after the war. Dominion representatives in London field inquiries about taxes education and financing while governments focus on reemploying returning veterans. Also: tax refunds will reach about 16 million taxpayers on March 15 under the pay-as-you-go system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
South Africa
Dominions
London
Realist badge marks shift in Allied diplomacy says Roosevelt
Washington Digest surveys Roosevelt remarks on Stalin as a realist and the move toward international cooperation. The piece notes the president’s cheerful return to Washington and emphasizes realism paired with idealism as a guiding post for postwar policy and future diplomacy.
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MacArthur
War Department
Southwest Pacific
U. S
Washington
D. C
Philippines
New Guinea
Stalin
Roosevelt
White House
Europe
Churchill
Oval Office
Russia
Britain
China
Make Do and Mend aids British housewives in wartime
A popular booklet by Bankhage Bestseller in Britain shows how to stretch clothing and linen to the last thread. Two hundred Australian girls joined a Melbourne club for Australian wives or fiancées of American servicemen to fellowship and help each other adapt to future life in America.
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Britain
Melbourne
America
Australia
Doan
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Western Newspaper Union
Senate
House
William Goose
FDR
Pacific
Marshall Islands
New Britain
Wewak
Cape Gloucester
Gilberts
Marshalls
Arawe
Makin Island
Central Pacific
General MacArthur
Guder
Great Britain
Washington Digest
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Republican Party
Bankhage
Theo
Montgomery San Angelo
Texas
Fair
Austin
E. M. Dezendorf
Austin TE
Eagle Pass
Dan W. Taylor
Corpus Christi
New Austin Highway
John O. Lueders
New Braunfels
Tex
R. W. Plumb
Box
Herkimer
N. Y
School of Forestry
Yale University
St.Joseph Aye
ATIO
Macedonia
WNU
Doans
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