Allies Press Berlin Drive as Reds Close in on Hitler
Allied forces push to finish Nazi pockets in Europe while guerrilla actions chip away at Japanese positions in the Philippines. Berlin fighting intensifies as American British Russian and French troops close in on Hitler's last industrial center.
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Europe
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
U. S
Warsaw
Vienna
Hitler
Elbe
Mulder
Stettin
Baltic
K. O
Bavarian Alps
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Italy
Alps
Mussolini
Philippines
Baguio
Luzon
Vigan
Ilocos Sur
Okinawa
Chandler Named Commissioner of Organized Baseball
Albert B. Chandler nicknamed Happy, a 46 year old Kentucky native, was appointed commissioner of organized baseball succeeding K. M. Landis. The text notes his sports background, political career in Kentucky, and a story of him stopping a sandlot game in Washington during a busy appointment period. It also covers broader wartime surplus property management and wheat stock projections impacting 1945 trade and freight logistics.
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Henri Petain
France
Verdun
Petain
de Gaulle
Albert B
Happy) Chandler
Judge Landis
Harvard
Kentucky University
Kentucky
Chandler
Happy
U.S. Senate
Alben Barkley
Washington, D. C
Cordell Hull
Department of Commerce
Treasury
Surplus Property Board
Henry A. Wallace
Commerce Department
Wallace
U. S
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Army discharges eyed as war winds down
Army planners expect limited releases for some veterans with five years of service even if hostilities continue, while Congress bars 18 year olds from combat without six months training. POWs in the continental United States logged over 12.1 million man days of work in early 1945 to ease manpower shortages.
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Congress
Army
Progr
Continental
United States
War Department
Leaders' Fates Thread Through One Man’s Life
A retrospective note how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death reshapes ties with Churchill Hopkins King Somervell Hopkins and Baruch. It outlines shifts as Churchill and allied leaders must work with Truman era policies and new White House oversight.
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Franklin Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Fdr
Moosevelt
Ernest King
Frank Knox
Knox
Navy
King
B. B. Somervell
Army
Truman Committee
Somervell
Truman
Marshall
Harry
Jimmie
Bernard Baruch
War Production Board
General Somervell
Baruch
WPB
Bernie
Byrnes
Chicago
Farm real estate sales hit record first quarter in 1944
The American Bankers Association reports that farm real estate sales remained high in early 1944 with record first quarter activity. Fewer farms are offered for sale, demand rises, and sales by insurers banks and estates reduce dampening effects on the market.
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American Bankers Association
A.B.A
Troop Rail Moves Reach 38.5 Million by Feb 1945
The Association of American Railroads reports about 38.5 million military personnel were moved by rail from Pearl Harbor through February 1945 in organized trains. It notes this excludes many service members traveling in smaller groups or on furloughs.
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Pearl Harbor
Association of American Railroads
Shoes shortages and rationing under OPA policy
The OPA limited veterans to two shoe stamps and new babies to one to curb stamp use amid a shoe shortage. It later backed away from expanding children's shoe rationing while announcing 150 million pairs of part leather shoes would be produced for youths and adults without stamps, though few reached dealers. Officials blamed a leather shortfall from fewer full grown steers as stockers reduced feeding due to price ceilings, reducing available leather.
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OPA
Home Tips for Comfort and Preservation in Daily Tasks
Practical household notes cover easing fatigue with a heavy rug, separating cold eggs for yolk and white use, repurposing used crankcase oil for painting fences, and painting in dry weather. A tip suggests lemon juice aids grinding dates and raisins to prevent sticking, while talcum or corn starch prevents rubber gloves from sticking.
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Western Newspaper Union
United Nations
San Francisco
China
Britain
Russia
Assembly of the
Security Organization
Executive Council
Pacific
Bombshell
Marshal Petain
Weimar
Happy Czar
Sewing
Sun
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Post
Joey
Mom
Fleischmann
Sloan
Deuy
Ezva
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