Washington Analysts Assess German War Position and Allied Strength
British expert Veritas argues the invasion fog and interior lines shape the reach of the conflict while noting the Allies’ manpower air power and equipment give them an edge. A Swiss witness recalls German brutality as propaganda shifts. The piece also highlights U S education and vocational training boosting farm and automotive programs nationwide to aid food production.
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Veritas
Norman Maier
University of Michigan
Munich
Hitler
Germany
Lyons
Black
Berlin
Friederichstrasse
Russia
Europe
Murmansk
Africa
Middle East
von Clausenhs
Lie
Office of Defense Transportation
United States Office of Education
Congress
Office of Educator
State Board For
William T Spanton
U. S Office of Education
Spanton
Himmler
Robert Ley
Fritz von Papen
Washington
War Academy
General Staff
von Ribbentrop
Koerster
von Hoesch
France
England
Chemists Strengthen Low Grade Lumber for Farmers
Dr. J F T Berliner of Du Pont describes methylolurea treated wood transforming soft woods into hard, dense material. The process costs a few tenths of a cent per square foot in chemicals, with equipment and labor adding modestly. treated wood resists warping, can replace steel in some parts, and enables farm woodlands to become a major income source.
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Barrow Lyons
WNU
Washington
J. F. T. Berliner
Ammonia Department
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
John F. Preston
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
du Pont
New Jersey
Pennyslvania
New York
Soil Conservation District
Tropics
War Production Board
du Pont Laboratories
Roosevelt healthy despite slight thinning in face
President Roosevelt returns from South Carolina looking fit though advisors note a thinner face after a 12 hour shine. Admiral McIntire says weight loss is within plan and can be corrected by diet, while Barkley questions his condition. Also covered are German pillboxes at Cassino and the Army discharge button saga.
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Washington
D. C
White House
South Carolina
Senate
Alben Barkley
Roosevelt
Ross T. McIntire
McIintire
McIntire
Army
Air Force
Jesse C
Field
Ogden
Utah
Hicks
Briefs from the Front and Home Fronts
Reports from the Southwest Pacific note about 30 per cent of 20 000 Australian civilians employed by the U S army are women. Japan uses fixed price rice from Kiansu Chekiang for military needs. Tokyo forms home guard units in 13 centers. Dutch language weekly and monthly magazine dropped over occupied Holland since May. Wood treatment shows flame resistance and hardness tests with methylolites impregnation.
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U.S. Army
Southwest Pacific
Melbourne
U. S
China
Kiansu
Chekiang
Japan
Holland
London
Secret meeting on future air routes with Halifax and State Dept
Lord Halifax met Undersecretary Stettinius in a closed session joined by Adolf Berle. The overheard exchange featured sharp rebukes, and Berle later defended the tough treatment as necessary. The topic centered on future world air routes, specifics not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Halifax
Stettinius
Adolf Berle
State Department
Berle
Alis
Jeep Investigation Prompts Budget Hearings Controversy
Government officials faced scrutiny during hearings on a supplemental defense bill as the Agriculture Department defended a jeep study. They sought 15 000 to determine jeep value for farm work replacing tractor power amid a looming postwar tractor shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Very Bar Has Its Day Tribute and Broadway Notes
A fragmented item notes Juli Hayden compiling a book and illustrating a dog with a day in its life. It mentions a tribute to Eddie Cantor amid Broadway memorials for his 35th anniversary, and Joan Crawford with P. Terry in a Hayworth Welles fashion note.
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Juli
Hayden
Eddie Cantor
Mirers
Broadway
Joan Crawford
P. Terry
Hayworth - Welles
Whimsical Scenes and Shadowed Echoes on a Bridge
A Sunday afternoon vignette on the George Washington bridge shows girls in bright dresses watching a naval freighter. A trumpeter on deck plays nostalgic tunes while distant bay waters frame a wartime mood with reflections on Hitler and the Nazi leadership, interwoven with animal imagery and satirical history notes.
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Bigtown
George Washington
Hutéson
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Digest
Baukhage
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Preston
United States
Iowa
Missouri
America
du Pont Experimental Laboratories
Cassino
Bankhage
Tokio Government
Harangue
English Channel
Fatso
Napoleon
Alexander the Great
Caesar
Genghis Khan
Adolf
Schicklgruber
der Rat
der Fuehrer
Goebbels
Heidelberg
Gundolf
Neumann
Goering
Red Army
Mussolini
Finito
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