Postwar inflation threat and England postwar crisis
Wrig ht A Patterson argues postwar inflation could ruin the nation if peacetime demand and foreign salvage overwhelm American supply. He cites lend lease and UNRRA totaling about 58 billion dollars for peacetime needs and urges Congress to restrict exports, ration controls, and sustain incomes. England faces grave postwar political risk as it requires long credits to rebuild while meeting home demand. A national jalopy obituary notes the end of the wartime era cars and looming replacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Lawrence Sullivan
Germany
Italy
Japan
France
Belgium
Holland
Russia
England
UNRRA
Congress
Modernizing Japan’s Emperor and a Subway Ride Tale
A reflective piece recalls Hirohito’s early travels with Renzo Sawada to England and France, noting the emperor’s unprecedented public appearances and shy steps toward Western culture. It contrasts sacred imperial status with his democratic impulses on the Paris metro and in London.
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Japan
Renzo Sawada
Hirohito
Sawada
Tokyo
Imperial Council of Education
Milado
Ama
Perry
England
France
Yokohama
Heavenly Isles
London
Paris
Metro
Nizer Lists columnist must be many talents
Louis Nizer, attorney and author, lays out nine required talents for a columnist. He lampoons alimony jokes, critic wit, coinages, philosophical plainness, irony, religious note, and ironist insult while noting the balance of intellect and humor.
Reporter Reveals Secret Nazi Lab Gas Threat
An Army discovery in a German chemical lab uncovers a new powerful toxin lethal in a pinhead. the Nazi chief claims Hitler hesitated to use it after learning the Chemical Warfare Division of the U S Army possessed even more fearsome gases in greater quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Chemical Warfare Division
United States Army
Postwar planning plan for Newton County community
Genevra Bush Gibson proposes a three committee approach Re-Employment Memorial and Education to guide postwar planning in Newton County Indiana Based on a high school district boundary the plan calls for surveys questionnaires and community projects including job placement memorial trees and expanded educational programs with adult classes and youth training initiatives.
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Genevra Bush
Newton County
Indiana
Agricultural Advisory Committee
Lion’s Club
Women’s Club
American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary
Red Cross Home Service
Hand
Sam
Fuller
Boards of Education
Perry L. Schneider
New York City
American Red Cross
Town Club of Chicago
Samuel A. Rinella
Pleasant Valley
Prosperity Tied to Rural America and Postwar Planning
The piece argues rural communities and small towns underpin US prosperity. It notes one quarter of Americans are farmers, farms drive most income, and farm dollars fund manufactured goods. It stresses sound postwar planning to create jobs and economic progress nationwide.
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America
U. S
United States
Committee For Economic Development Handbook
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Wright A. Patterson
Truman
John J. O’connor
Christian Front
William O'Dwyer
Edward Curran
O'Dwyer
Brooklyn
Army
Puerto Rico
L. W. Robert Firm
Atlanta
Democratic National Committee
Nizer
Louis Nizer
Ing
William Ramsay
Lincoln
Jefferson
Western Newspaper Union
Northwestern University
Miss Gibson
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