Reconversion plans outlined for peacetime economy
Washington outlines government aims to restore full employment, maintain wartime living standards, and end rationing while curbing inflation. Unemployment could hit 8 million in 1945 as war contracts end, with veterans aided by rapid absorption into peacetime industry and persistent wage and price controls until supply matches demand.
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Washington, D. C
United States Employment Service
War Production Board
Fragmented wartime notes on relief and agriculture
The excerpt references garden mulch to protect soil, world peace via global cooperation, and DDT insecticide as a wartime tool. It contrasts relief burdens with army supply roles and mentions Japan, highlighting scattered lines on policy and science.
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Courier-News
Japan
Woman Uses Home Assembly To Produce War Gear
Vivien Kellems of Westport Connecticut launched a cable grip family business and proved home work can replace factory labor. She trained housewives to assemble grips at home, paying about 80 cents an hour, with top workers earning around 45 dollars weekly.
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Westport
Conn
Clare Boothe Luce
Congress
Clare
Vivien
Signal Corps
Flight for Life: South African Child Arrives for Throat Operation
Five year old Weymouth Pedlar from Johannesburg is flown to Philadelphia for throat surgery after months of breathing through windpipe tubes. Temple University Hospital specialists chose new treatments over immediate operation.
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Weymouth
Johannesburg
South Africa
Philadelphia
Temple University Hospital
Peace on earth and the home front battles ahead
The piece argues that true peace is needed on the home front after World War II with job security as the top battle. It raises Congress to focus on jobs, social security, unemployment, and the fate of workers, then weighs who should control atomic energy and whether church leaders should oversee this discovery.
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Earth
Europe
America
Congress
United Nations
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