Revised Warship Plans Focus on Fire Safety
The Navy revises warship designs to reduce fire risk after lessons from battles and tests. Changes include eliminating linoleum floors, insulating with spun glass, lighter interior woodwork, reduced paint, larger fire hoses, and upgraded firefighting gear.
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Santiago
Texas
Pay as you go tax plan eyed to fund wartime costs
Washington planners back Sen. Bennett Clark's pay as you go system delivering a 24 percent withholding on payrolls starting March 15 for 1943 taxes based on 1942 income. Farmers and professionals would pay monthly or quarterly. Frances Perkins notes food price rises tied to wartime controls and rising uncapped costs since 1939 with December index up 9 percent from May and 17 percent from December 1941.
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Ickes Warns War Could Crush Small Business
Secretary Harold L. Ickes told the Senate small business committee the war threatens widespread small business failure. He warned production contracts favor large corporations and warned of a potential loss of enterprise freedom and a drift toward cartel domination.
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Harold L. Ickes
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French Drive Advances Toward Sousse and North Africa Politics
French forces capture passes on the road to Sousse threatening Axis supply routes in central and southern Tunisia while Harold MacMillan predicts a settlement between Giraud and de Gaulle to ease North Africa administration. Russians mount a fifth winter offensive from Voronezh, adding pressure as Germans defend Kremlins and Allied air power targets Ruhr, Lille, and Mediterranean routes. Navy updates set parcel limits for mail to overseas personnel and bar inappropriate matter.
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Tripoli
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Marine Corps
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Navy Department
President Eleanor Nodsevatt Sees War Era Culture in New York
Eleanor Nodsevatt reflects on the Congress, the President's address, and public reaction. She notes reading the speech multiple times to grasp its meaning, visits to Arthur Szyk’s war satire exhibition, and meetings on child care and civilian defense in Greater New York. She recounts adjusting to new war rules, wartime travel limits, and British ration experiences, ending with praise for Private Peter McLaren Forin of Buffalo in the Canadian army who sent a Christmas poem to General Wavell.
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Seligman
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Great Britain
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General Wavell
Weekly News Analysis Highlights Small Business Risk and Tax Program
Synthesis notes warn small business peril amid policy shifts. Congress approves Pay as You Go tax rules, shaping Treasury actions. A fifth Russ offensive is reported against Nazi forces, reflecting wartime context and editorials.
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Proclamation Lowers Draft Age for Women in Britain
King George signs a decree cutting the draft age for women from 20 to 19. Single women born July through December 1922 may choose war industry or the armed services or volunteer for nursing before national war work. Yale hosts Army Air Force Technical Command School with 3,000 cadet candidates at New Haven campus.
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New Haven
Yale
Army Air Force Technical Command School
Uncle Sam
Sullivan Brothers Heroism in World War II Tale
Five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo Iowa served in the Navy to avenge a friend killed at Pearl Harbor. They were shipmates by request and were believed casualties when the cruiser Juneau was sunk in the Guadalcanal battle. George 29 Francis 26 Joseph 23 Madison 22 Albert 30.
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Road to Tokyo Stages Allied Air Tide in New Guinea and Solomons
Tropical rains slowed ground fighting in New Guinea as Allied forces widened air campaigns against Japan. Fortresses with bombers and fighters hit Madang Finschhaven Lae and Salamau while fires flared on barges stores and harbor works near Buna. In Guadalcanal air raids isolated Japanese positions and Munda Island faced ongoing air pressure.
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Salamau
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Guadalcanal
Munda Island
War Production and Manpower Criticized by Tolan Committee
A congressional report by the Tolan committee accuses the war effort of general maladministration and hazardous handling. It cites failure to mobilize small industry and critiques management of war output after months of study.
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