West Union Telegraph merges with Postal Telegraph
A historic consolidation unfolds as Postal Telegraph stockholders vote to merge with Western Union, creating a global enterprise valued at around $940 million. The move follows Western Union's 1851 origins and its long strategy of acquiring smaller rivals to expand reach in wartime and peacetime communications.
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New York State
Western Union Telegraph Company
Postal Telegraph Company
Western Union
Agriculture prospects and Pacific war update in 1943 news story
The report projects five major grain crops totaling 5.282 billion bushels, with reductions from last year. Corn, wheat, oats, barley, and rye figures are given alongside soybeans. In the Pacific, U S airmen attack Kurile targets after U S troops encircle Japanese forces on New Georgia as Liberators fly missions from Aleutian runways.
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Department of Agriculture
New Georgia
Solomons
U. S
Aleutian
Kuriles
Allied Meeting Signals New Allied War Strategy
Churchill and Roosevelt converge for a sixth wartime summit with Italian govern ment openness to peace terms and Russia signaling possible postwar influence. The talks bring North American forces, high ranking U.S. officers, and naval chiefs, while Stalin is excluded from the conference, shaping future allied decisions on Europe and postwar influence.
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Pietro Badoglio
Italy
Russia
Germany
Winston Churchill
Frankln D. Roosevelt
North American
Churchill
U. S. Army
Navy
North Africa
Sicily
Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Gas Ration Change Amid War Tax Debate
The Office of Price Administration plans cuts in gas rations for the Midwest and Southwest, trimming A B and C coupons, with limited supplies for preferred motorists. Separately, a Treasury report shows New York Illinois and seven other states contributing 28 percent of 1943 revenue while North and South Dakota pay about 0.1 percent, and debates on war-time tax schemes and compulsory savings face weak support.
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Midwest
Southwest
Office of Price Administration
Harold L. Ickes
U. S. Treasury
New York
Illinois
Treasury
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
North
South Dakota
Sport of Kings yearlings sell high at Lexington sale
A group of 54 thoroughbred yearlings, offspring of Blenheim VI and Sir Galahad II, sold at an average of 3507 dollars at the Lexington Kentucky sales. Clark Gable’s aircraft in Europe was hit fifteen times while on photography duty but remained in operation and returned to base.
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Galahad II
Lexington
Europe
Clark Gable
Young Richard La Deakle Signed by New York Gshate
Seventeen year old Richard La Deakle of Pavsalo New Jersey signed a contract with the New York Gshate for 10000 then was sent to Jersey City in the International League for seasoning. Also seventy year old Frank Wilhelm, Tacoma Washington paper executive, sank an eight foot putt in a golf match then died of a heart attack.
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Richard Ladeakle
Pavsalo
N. J
New York Gshate
Jersey City
Frank A. Wihelmi
Tacoma
Wash
Briefs from Baukhage on discharge lapel pins and wartime prop
An army discharge will be signified by a lapel button, the war department announced. A British French hour urged youth to gain time lest they face Germany. Nazi propaganda ordered removal of Mussolini literature from German libraries, Tass reported, noting parallels to Hitler did little to help his image.
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Russia
Germany
Smolensk
Napoleon Bonaparte
Kharkov
Orel
Pittsburgh
Treasury
War Department
Continent
Nazi Ministry of Propaganda
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Tass
Berlin
Geneva
Hitler
Isolationist romance and war notes ripple through headlines
A Chicago Tribune claim that Col Robert McCormick would wed Mrs Helen Essary sparks White House curiosity. The piece also covers Churchill versus Roosevelt on daylight bombing, U S fighter losses and gains, wage policy via non negotiable bonds, and brief items on OWI influence, Swiss diplomat Bruggmann, and German-occupied Paris ambience.
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Washington, D. C
Cupid
Chicago Tribune
Robert R. McCormick
Helen Essary
Baltimore Sun
Colonel McCormick
Waste Space For a Linen Closet Design No 25
Homemaker notes space waste due to cupboard doors blocking a kitchen linen closet. A small sketch shows an efficient linen closet with a high plywood door and lower shelves behind a curtain on a shade roller. Mrs Spears provides full working sketches, dimensions, materials list, and step-by-step directions for Design No 25, 15 cents.
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Pacific
Heatern
Theta Colorans
Caaper Union
Western Newspaper Union
Messina Straits
Industria
George S. Patton
7Th Army
Milan
Palermo
Joseph Mole
Jamestown
Josephine
Relef
Bataan
Washington Digest
Baukhage
LABOR
Shun Lewis
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
CIO
AFL
William Green
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
District 50
Smith-Connally
WNW Service
Union Trust
Congress
Uncle Sam
Washington
Harold Ickes
Wiley M. Creps
Chicago
North Atlantic
Creps
Galor
Dick Lajeski
Mel Ott
Charles Lajeski
Casablanca
Ira Eaker
U.S
R. J. Thomas
United Auto Workers Union
War Labor Board
Thomas
RFC
Commodity Credit Corporation
WLB
Manhattan
Jimmy Warburg
John Durfee
Victor Emmanuel
Wallace Herrick
Warburg
OWI
Office of Warburg Information
Charles Bruggmann
Henry Wallace
United States
France
Spain
Paris
Reopit
Zipper Laundry
Ruth Wyeth
Bedford Hills
Meekesson & Robbins
Bridgeport
Conn
Acre
Soretone le Eee
California
Haiti
Bfgoodrich
Acoa Mit
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