World monetary plan seen as boon to postwar trade
Washington reporters describe Bretton Woods style plans to create an international bank and monetary fund to stabilize exchange and back private loans for reconstruction. U S Treasury experts say membership would share risk and shift some control from private bankers to governments, with us bearing about one third of responsibility.
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WNU Service
Union Trust
Washington, D. C
United States Treasury
Bretton Woods
Congress
International Bank of Reconstruction and Development
International Monetary Fund
United Nations
San Francisco
United States
International Bank
Monetary Fund
Treasury
American Bankers Association
England
Britain
Stalin routes stay in Russia to meet leaders
The Yalta talks reveal Stalin keeps all military decisions in Russia as he faces world leaders. Japan seizes airplane factories to warn profit waning from war. OWI notes health steady amid nurse shortage as supply demand shifts. De Gaulle calls for 12 million "fine babies" in a decade, pledging quality over quantity.
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Stalin
Russia
Yalta
OWI
General de Gaulle
France
Merchant Marine Academy trains fighting officers for sea war
The United States merchant marine cadet corps at Kings Point and basic schools trains cadet midshipmen for sea duty both in peace and war. Cadets have served on invasions, endured torpedo attacks, and helped deliver troops and cargo while earning decorations. Examples include Wood, Steedley, Dudley, and Thomas who faced fires, bombings, and enemy action while steering ships and saving lives.
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United States
Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
U S. Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
L. 1
San Mateo
Calif
America
U. S. Maritime Service
U. S. Naval Reserve
Navy
US Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
West Point
Annapolis
Coast Guard Academy
Academy
Long Island Sound
Great Neck
France
Louie B. Wood Jr
Atlanta
John F. Steedley Jr
Tallahassee, Fla
Steedley
Wood
England
New York
Dudley
Robert H. Dudley
Yonkers
N. Y
Guadalcanal
Tulagi
Army and Navy
William M. Thomas Jr
Alameda
Roosevelt
Edwin J. O Hara DS Medal Hero upholds cadet line
Edwin J. O Hara of Lindsay California a U S merchant marine cadet earned the Distinguished Service Medal posthumously for single handedly firing a gun at dawn in 1942 sinking an enemy raider while wounded he went down with his ship.
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U S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
Edwin J. O'Hara
Lindsay
Calif
O’alara
O'Hara
Tales of Roosevelt and other famous figures
A collection of humorous anecdotes about Theodore Roosevelt FDR and other notable figures. Vignettes cover Roosevelt’s vanity in heaven and a palace stay in Stockholm, Edison’s dog muse, Beethoven’s Bonn memorial, Paderewski’s disdain, Hawthorne’s writing spark, and Hawthorne’s wife financing The Scarlet Letter.
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Fdr
Yalta
Teddy Roosevelt
Stockholm
Royal Palace
Big Stick
Teddy
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By Baukhage
U. S
Germany
le Force
Volkssturm
Himmler
Bankhage
Merchant Marine Academy
Englsh Channel
Hid
Cadet Corps
Normandy
Willard B. Kitchen
Emery Rice
Pass Christian, Miss
St. Peter
Old
New York World
Moe Schenck
Albany
Moe
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Washington
Moel
Thomas Edison
Edison
Beethoven
Bonn
Paderewski
Reg Lillie
Lady Peel
Bea
Coed
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John L. Collyer
B. F. Goodrich Co
Bfgoodrich
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