Redeployment of U S Forces From Europe to Pacific Weighs Heavy
Washington analysis details the toils and toll of redeploying more than three million American troops from Europe to the Pacific. It notes long ship voyages, supply chains, and the moral strain on soldiers and families, with General Marshall and General Gregory balancing logistics and heartache.
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War Department
Washington
San Francisco
Hauptmann
Main Street
America
Food Authority
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Atlantic
Pacific
Army of the Pacific
Army High Command
Marshall
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Gregory
Army
Quartermaster Corps
France
Tropics
Japanese Islands
China
A National Airport Network Aimed By Federal Aid Plan
The Civil Aeronautics Administration asks Congress to approve a 1.25 billion postwar airport program with 50 50 federal grants to states. The plan would modernize 1 625 existing airfields and build 3 050 new ones across 6 305 towns, with most funds for new facilities and preparations for runways lighting and related infrastructure. Local sponsors via state agencies would manage construction and plans reviewed by CAA.
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Department of Commerce
Aeronautic
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Secretary of Commerce
Henry Wallace
Aviation
Wallace
Leahy Blockade Strategy Reconsidered Against Japan
The article argues Admiral Leahy proposed a 1937 38 naval blockade of Japan with Britain to choke oil scrap iron cotton and other resources while keeping fleets in the Philippines and Singapore to avoid fighting. It credits Roosevelt and Britain but notes opponents and the later shift after Pearl Harbor making blockade impractical.
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Japan
William Leahy
White House
Leahy
Capitol Hill
Europe
Asia
China
Nippon
Hitler
Mussolini
United States
Roosevelt
League of Nations
U S
Philippines
Singapore
Yangtze River
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Admiral Leahy
Panay
Britain
USA
State Department
Cordell Hull
Pacific
Russia
Vladivostok
Hull
Hugh Wilson
Germany
Poland
Pearl Harbor
Caribbean
Atlantic
Barbs and booze amid sugar politics and diplomat talk
Congress will probe sugar diversion to bootleg whiskey while drinkers claim ore sugar is used to water down good whiskey. Ely Culbertson, ex bridge expert, attended the San Francisco conference and urged stronger American leadership, opposing the security council veto. A woman is known by the enemies she makes.
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Congress
Tipplers
Ely Culbertson
San Francisco
Security Council
Motor Bus Lines Plan Air Bus Service to Reach Small Communities
Motor bus companies propose large helicopters termed air busses to serve small communities lacking airports. These rotorcraft would operate up to 250 miles, with stops every 25 to 90 miles, and connect to air lines for longer trips. At 90 mph they would halve typical prewar auto travel times for short journeys, despite slower speeds than airliners.
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Air Freight
Air Express
Army
Navy
Motor Bus Lines
Air Bus
Argentine official confronts Peron clique on world politics
Notes depict a New Yorker recounting an Argentine official denouncing plutocrats and imperialists as war makers while echoing anti Jewish Bolshevik fears. A slip reads Argentina invited to a World Security Conference, provoking a startled pause before a pro democracy sendoff. A separate Edward R. Stettinius note criticizes normalizing relations with Argentina's fascist military clique. A bar scene ends with a jab at a cocktail party mispronounced as cock tail.
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Col. Peron
Cers
Argentina
Germany
Hitler
Moscow
Reminiscences of San Francisco Lore and Twain Tales
A Septuagenarian tour through Gold Rush era satire and early 20th century anecdotes. It recalls San Francisco irony about laws and vice, Mark Twain’s lecture stop in a California town, a barber’s quip about sold out tickets, a wartime absenteeism joke with a Mikado bonus, teen party cautions, and Gelett Burgess with The Lark and its 1890s nonsense verse.
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San Francisco Gazette
Mark Twain
California
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U.S
Walter A. Shead
WNU
Saas
Spain
Gibraltar
Bankhage
Edward R. Stettinius
Jack Anderson
Krisco
Joe San Francisco
Hirohito
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