Dewey Pledges Strong Postwar Market for American Producers
The piece notes Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker outlining a postwar platform to secure a robust U S market for producers. It covers tariff protections crop programs and postwar economic plans plus Dewey’s onstage remarks and foreign trade aims.
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Dewey
France
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Republican Party
U. S
Britain and Allies Aid U S in Reverse Lend Lease
The United Kingdom Australia and New Zealand supplied the United States with aid under reverse lend lease totaling about 2 percent of a billion dollars for the year ending last March and continuing into 1944. Britain provided rail transport to invasion ports planes airfields construction fresh vegetables and other foods gas tanks landing mats parachutes and 2 million woolen socks. Australia contributed meat and dairy products while New Zealand sent foodstuffs making up part of its over 100 million dollar aid.
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United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Britain
U. S
Naval Hospitals Near Capacity as Surgeons Warn
Vice Admiral Ross T. McIlhaney reports U S naval hospitals are 85 percent full overall with 70 000 beds available. West Coast Pacific area care is 95 percent full and some personnel are moved to convalescent facilities near home. Britain agrees to shelter Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe at a North African colony site. many refugees reach southern Italy from the Balkans daily per Stettinius.
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Naval Hospitals
U. S. Naval Hospitals
Ross T. MclIntire
Naval
Great Britain
Europe
Stettinius
North
Africa
Italy
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Finland Breaks off Ties Amid War Alignments
Finland refuses to consider U S peace terms with Russia and pledges to stay with Germany, seeking military aid. The move follows Argentina recalling Ambassador Norman Armour for consultations amid rising Axis sentiment after the invasion. De Gaulle plans talks with Roosevelt on changes to U N Liberation leadership and U S posture toward reoccupied French territory.
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Finland
U. S
Russia
Germany
Norman Armour
Argentina
State Department
Charles de Gaulle
Roosevelt
French National Committee For Liberation
Civilian goods shortage warned by WPB official
A War Production Board official warned the public will feel growing shortages of civilian goods as stockpiles dwindle and material and labor tighten. Some demand for items like electric irons and aluminum kitchenware will be partially met this year, while stoves lumber and other steel products face limits. The piece notes textile restrictions persist due to tight labor, and a Commerce Department view questions the jeep’s farm utility, calling it a costly multipurpose vehicle with limited capacity.
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War Production Board
WPB
U. S. Department of Commerce
Jack of All Trades
Small Business to Feel Benefit of Reconversion
WNU Service reports on reconversion impacts led by Maury Maverick and the Smaller War Plants corporation. The piece describes easing restrictions on aluminum and magnesium use, mobilization of idle steel surpluses, and steps to convert civilian goods production without harming war output, aiming to preserve small firms and curb inflation.
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
War Plants Corporation
Congress
San Antonio
Texas
Maury Maverick
Congressional
Maverick
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
WPB
Maury
Nelson
Bicycles Sent Abroad for Chinese Army Use
More than 6 000 bicycles will be shipped to China by air to equip the Chinese army for operations where roads are scarce. Youths ages 16 to 174 percent years may enlist with parental consent for training in the U S merchant marine. Farmers are urged to insure against hazard years by investing wartime income in war bonds.
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China
U. S. Merchant Marine
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