Allied Push Drives Nazis Across France and Balkans Amid Armistice Efforts
Allied forces push back German lines across France threatening encirclement while Marseille is rebuilt for supply runs. In the Balkans, Romania contemplates peace with the Allies as Red Army advances toward the Galati Gap and Ploesti, pressuring Bulgaria and Hungary.
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Hitler
Reich
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Balkan
Romania
Galati
Transylvanian Alps
Black Sea
Rumania
Ploesti
Postwar Peace Conference Opens At Dumbarton Oaks
In Washington DC the United States Britain and Russia begin postwar peace talks at the Dumbarton Oaks estate with aims to preserve peace and discuss force as a last resort China to join after Reds finish talks Russia not at war with Japan. Dewey envoy John Foster Dulles attends at Hull's invitation to ensure small nations' interests are considered. Conference members reportedly favor force only after peaceful measures fail.
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Thomas E. Dewey
John Foster Dulles
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Anti-Trust Suit Targets Railroads and Financing Firms
The government files an anti trust suit against the Association of American Railroads Western Association of Railway Executives 47 railroads and investors J P Morgan and Company and Kuhn Loeb and Company. It accuses western rate practices delaying growth and hindering truck and water transport while noting control of major railroad financing by the named firms. The piece also covers wartime lend lease totals and shipments by the United States to Allies.
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Association of American Railroads
Western Association of Railway Executives
J. P. Morgan and Company
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
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Auto use drops as wartime rationing cuts trips
A recent survey shows 74 percent of car owners drive less than half peacetime mileage due to shorter trips and rationing. Gasoline and tire limits, plus patriotic motives, reduce usage rather than cars being laid up. Capt Joseph Hiestand wins Grand American Trapshooting title in Vandalia, Ohio, his fourth win after 1935 36 and 38 with a 200 straight.
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America
Seek to Avoid Glut in Postwar Food Markets
The War Food Administration plans to buy only for foreseeable demand and draw relief needs from surplus stocks before domestic purchases. It will create a surplus sales division to clear current stocks for fresh supplies and proposes a permanent international agricultural organization to advise, promote research, raise nutrition, and aid global economic expansion.
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International Agricultural Organization
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Food Conference Committee
Bombers Strike Japanese Shipping Lanes and Islands
Allied air forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz pressed operations across the Solomons and New Guinea and extended attacks to the Bonin islands and Mindanao. The campaign aimed to strangle enemy shipping and soften Tokyo’s footholds as U S forces advance toward the Philippines and beyond.
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Marianas
Tokyo
AFL demands wage boost and ends Little Steel formula
The AFL executive council urged the president to raise wages and abandon the Little Steel formula, seeking limit increases to 15 percent of the January 1941 level. It also chartered the International Office Workers union to include white collar workers hit by rising costs, with William Green citing a cost of living maladjustment harming peacetime living standards.
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American Federation of Labor
International Office Workers Union
AFL
William Green
Government Acquires 34 Million Acres for War Needs
Senator O'Mahoney reports the federal government has taken over more than 34 million acres for war purposes, excluding Defense Plant Corporation land. War and Navy departments list 6.75 million acres as postwar surplus, including 1.576 million acres of good agricultural land, 2.197 million acres of grazing land, and 2.107 million acres of forest tracts.
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O’mahoney
Wyoming
War and Navy Departments
Free Enterprise vs Theorists in Postwar Economy Debate
In Washington the theorists urge a planned economy after the war while favoring private enterprise if it can provide full employment. The piece argues free enterprise raised living standards, created jobs, and kept costs low, contrasting it with calls for government regimentation and a postwar planned system.
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Washington
America
United States
War know how spans food and arms in wartime headlines
The piece discusses a wartime belief that essential skills exist in building ships planes guns and munitions and in food production. It notes drafting errors and White House dynamics around a Willkie letter then outlines a postwar army demobilization plan with a point system to release about two million men and that the Navy will keep its personnel.
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Army
Willkie
Wendell Willkie
Sam Rosenman
Steve Early
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Grace Tully
White House
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Dewey
War Department
Germany
Pacific
Air Corps
Navy
Army cooking gains fame in homefront talk
Captain Ben Irvin Butler notes soldiers prefer well cooked meals and KP duty can be a welcome kitchen duty. He cites Gourmet editor Bill Rhode and Army dietary staff, recalls inquiries from service members about wild duck recipes and tarts, and says repeal revived American gastronomy as soldiers learn food comes from more than canned goods.
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Bill Rhode
Gourmet
Bill
Span
John Piper
South Pacific
New York
Army
Walter Winchell Column To Be Guest-Run This Month
With Winchell away this month, the famed column will be conducted by guest writers. The plan preserves the column’s voice while he is absent.
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Walter Winchell
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