Big Three curb Germany in Potsdam agreements
Potsdam accords redefine Europe with demilitarization and lines redrawn. Germany loses heavy industry and 25 percent of equipment to Soviet zones. trials of war criminals planned. Italy praised for abandoning Fascism and seeking eventual UN admission. Japan endures intensified Allied air strikes and disrupted supply as coalition pressures mount.
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Europe
Eilender
Dem
Taft
Rep
Ohio
Potsdam
Hohenzollern
Berlin
Italy
United Nations
U. S
Britain
Russia
France
China
Spain
Overseas Expenditures and Jet Plane Flight Report
The Foreign Economic Administration notes U S overseas expenditures from 1940 to 1945 topped 1144 billion, with 4 billion for metals and supplies and 2 billion for bases. It details 6% billion abroad in British commonwealth and 147 million in Russia, while reverse lend-lease reached almost 6 billion. Col William H Councill described Lockheed Shooting Star flight from Dayton to New York in 62 minutes with speed, altitude, cabin pressurization, and low vibration.
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U. S
Foreign Economic Administration
FEA
British Commonwealth
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
India
South America
Russia
William H. Councill
New York
Dayton
Ohio
Lockheed Aircraft
General Electric
Councill
Shooting Star
Laval to Be Star Witness in Petain Treason Trial
Nervous Laval, a chain smoker with a swarthy appearance, promised to become the star witness in Marshal Petain's treason trial after surrendering to American authorities in Austria and being transferred to the French. Petain's counsel moved to call Laval after secret dealings with the Allies were revealed by Gen. Weygand and Adm. Leahy, chief of staff to Truman. Weygand disclosed Vichy’s agreement to keep Germans out of North Africa in exchange for American goods, while Leahy wrote a June 22, 1945, letter recalling Petain acted against Axis interests during his ambassadorship. Laval, called Petain's evil genius, had supported French collaboration with Germany, while Petain argued his aims were to balance Nazi power.
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Silk
Fierte
Laval
Marshal Petain
Austria
Petain
Maxime Weygand
William Leahy
Roosevelt
Truman
Weygand
Vichy
North Africa
Deahy
Marshal
France
Germany
Washington Digest Plans Reorganization of Labor Department
Secretary Schwellenbach aims to reorganize the U S Labor Department to consolidate scattered agencies under one head. He plans to streamline administration, prepare a comprehensive report for President Truman by September, and seek an executive order or legislation to formalize changes. The effort faces political and labor market tensions as wartime controls wind down.
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Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
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Washington State
Schwellenbach
Department of Labor
District of Columbia
Juno
Harry Truman
Constitution Avenue
Labor
Augeas
Department
Washington
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Congress
Truman
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White House
Labor Department
John Lewis
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Labor and Management
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War Manpower Commission
Social Security
Secial Security Board
Department of Welfare
Children's Bureau
National Labor Relations Board
Secretary of Labor
Poor Brakes Raise Alarm In North America
A survey by the International Association of Chiefs of Police covers 1,749,901 cars in the United States and Canada. About 256,988 vehicles or 14.6 percent failed a basic brake test, failing to take hold before the pedal reached one inch from the floor.
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United States
Canada
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Farm Labor Placements Hit Large Six Month Total
In the first half of 1945 county agents and farm labor placement officers filled 1,645,279 farm jobs and assisted 250,000 farmers. June alone saw 640,216 placements, up from 599,478 in June 1944, with townspeople asked to assist in harvests from August through October across crops including fruit vegetables potatoes wheat and cotton.
Postwar Business Big Expansion Plans Reported
Postwar business surges as plans show more than 104 billion dollars to be spent by mid 1944 on new plants equipment and working capital. Manufacturers will fund about three fourths of expansion with own resources and much of the spend goes to plant and equipment with significant inventory growth and wholesale credit provisions.
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Department of Com Terve
Grain storage report shows record wheat and corn stocks
The agriculture department reports total grain stored on July 1 at 1.412 billion bushels with 1.108 on farms and 304 off farm. Wheat 281 million, corn 783 million, oats 289 million, barley 87 million, rye 13 million. Wheat down 11 percent from last year. corn up 31 percent from last year. oats up 14 percent from last July.
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Department of Agriculture
Meat Production Shows Decline Across July Figures
July production of 1,115,000,000 pounds of beef veal and pork declined 10 percent from June and 22 percent from July last year. Compared with last year veal lamb and pork were down 18 percent 9 percent and 46 percent respectively.
Barbs and Banter from a bygone era in print
A fragmentary reminiscence piece recalls a mislabeled photo of a G I with a brunette in England, Attlee dining in San Francisco and washing dishes, Canada’s trade edge over the U S due to longer price controls, and two wartime linguistic predictions including infiltrate and redeployment.
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Attlee
San Francisco
England
Britain’s Labor leaders and future directions described
The piece profiles Britain's Labour figures including Prime Minister elect Attlee and rivals Morrison Bevin Wilkinson Greenwood. It notes Attlee as a cautious middle man and outlines Morrison Bevin hailing from London and union power while detailing Wilkinson as a fiery backer of labor causes and Greenwood as a seasoned bureaucrat. It also mentions Nelson Rockefeller seeking Hull talks and Mrs McLean courting Truman cabinet shifts.
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Britain
Labor
Churchill
Democratic Party
Clement Attlee
England
Attlee
Ramsey MacDonald
Herbert Morrison
Ernest Bevin
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Bevin
Sidney Hillman
OPM
Pearl Harbor
Lkes
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Waterloo Bridge
Ernie Bevin
Transport Workers
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Philip Murray
Winston Churchill
Hitler
Mussolini
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M.P
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Miss Wilkinson
Ireland
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Wallis Simpson
Atilee
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Greenwood
MacDonald
Churchil
Redical
Uberal
Nelson Rockefeller
Cordell Hull
Hull
Argentina
Rockefeller
Hope Diamond" McLean
Sen
Bob Reynolds
Scripps Howard
Truman
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