City hearing on plan for new high school and city hall
Public hearing set at the Court House to discuss a resolution for a new high school, city hall, and an incineration plant in Troy. The plan seeks state aid covering half the design costs, with council approval only for drafting plans, amid expectations of broad citizen support and swift legislative action.
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Court House
Common Council
Troy
Té Séax
Postwar Planning Commission
Que
City Hall
Stanton Steamer .Co
Prospect Park
Propaganda and morale in the war effort against Japan
A wartime analysis notes that despite overwhelming Allied air power and radio campaigns in Japanese territory, many Japanese remain under militaristic control. It contrasts Nazi propaganda’s limited impact with hopeful signs of countermeasures and the Allies’ broader victory in Europe while warning of continued Japanese resistance and threats like balloon bombs.
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Japan
Hitler
Germany
Propaganda and Vow to Crush Japanese War Power
The speaker asserts overwhelming Allied power and promises to smash 200 measures the Jap war machine may attempt. He urges hard truth to the Japanese people via propaganda to press for unconditional surrender while stressing the strategic task of deploying planes bombs ships and fighting power to end the war.
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Halsey
St Bord Command
Forest Industries Council seeks to renew U S forests through private action
The article traces decades of forest depletion across the United States from eastern regions to the Pacific coast and urges private enterprise to lead reforestation. It notes government concern, and reports the formation of the Forest Industries Council by pulp paper and lumber groups to promote sustained forest production and private land ownership with state support and taxation incentives.
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Michigan
United States
Forest Industries Council
America
Emig. Sy
London
Skeidos Giudee
Harvard
Padt Liesan
Mel Sehy Peither
Lawrence Preuss
Air
Hackworth
Department
Prenay
Commission
War Crimes Commission
Operation Fougasse and Britain's reserve of secret weapons
Article recounts wartime plans and secret defenses like Operation Fougasse and FIDO, detailing how Britain prepared with gasoline defenses, flame throwers, and fuel pipes in the Channel. It notes German awareness, Goebbels propaganda, and the broader hope that future secret weapons would emerge from science and ingenuity amid war fears.
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Britain
Royal Navy
Channel
Ministry of Petroleum Warfare
Luftwafe
Goebbele
FIDO
Germany
War Department
Churchill Attacks Labour Socialism in Britain Campaign
The Conservative prime minister criticizes Labour’s socialist platform as an abomination to freedom and warns of totalitarian risks in state directed welfare. Union leaders counter that Tories must go to secure homes schools and jobs, citing freedom and enterprise.
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Churchill
Labor Party
Potter
United States
Laborites
Britain
Leoun
Captured Nazi Claims Cousin Ties in Captor’s Town
A captured Nazi said he has a cousin in the home town of his American captor, a remark noted as establishing shared humanity albeit indirectly. The exchange highlights personal links crossing wartime divides and underscores lingering human connections amid capture.
Current Comment Meat Counter at the Providence Market
A dismal scene unfolds as a small crowd, mostly women, stares at three chunks of meat in a butcher display. They drift away in quiet resignation while a gizzards bucket and a hostile clerk disrupt the tense mood, ending with a suggestion to visit the counter to calm nerves.
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Providence Bulletin
Ody
Gigcard
Weather luck and crop forecasts for 1840–1945
The piece notes the country's strong crop weather history from 1840 to 1933 and 1944, with 3952 highlighted as excellent. It cites factors like farm labor shortages and pricing policies for weaker years, warns that prolonged cold and rain could delay planting and threaten corn and soybeans, and stresses hope for a good year despite possible setbacks.
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Rochester Times Union
Drouth
Pine trees in Stillwater Cemetery provoke reader letter
The Record prints reader letters about Stillwater Cemetery trees mislabeled as pines. A correspondent argues spruce refers to several pine species and jokes about timber value. A forester at Ballston Rotary notes pulpwood demand and war needs, while the piece laments truthfulness and anonymity in letters.
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Stillwater Cemetery
the Record
A. &. Revcknagie
Albany
Cornell Enniversity
Ballston
Truman plan sparks debate on war pay and unemployment aid
The Open letter, from Jimmy the Sweeper, critiques wartime pay policies and unions while analyzing President Truman's request for liberal pensions and emergency unemployment pay. It argues overpayments to war plant workers, postwar unemployment concerns, and tensions with the Merchant Marine and labor unions amid the conversion period.
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New York
Truman
Congress
United Auto Workers
C.10
Hercules
Canion
Jimmy
Splyini
Scot
Yarland
Toe Thomas V. de Lorenzo
Fuers
Itha ‘Bank
Jimmy A Dole
Lruman
Navy
Armed’ Guard
Maritime Union
Communist Front
Roosevelt
Martime Union
Liverpool
Holyhead
Swansea
Southampton
Gibraltar
Oran
Sandy Hook
Honas
Armed Services
Union Terregentatives
Joseph Curran
Soviet Union
Russia
War Crimes Vanity and Delays in Nazi Trials
Washington reportage reveals delays and disagreements over Nazi war crimes trials. Justice Robert Jackson questions large guilty groups before Christmas while Pell warns of State Department resistance. A confidential 1945 White House memo details tensions between officials, Preuss, and the War Crimes Commission.
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S. Amy
U.S
U. S. Supreme Court
Robert Jackson
Washington
Jackson
Gestapo
Elo Guard
Hure
Walte House
Herbert Pell
Portugal
Hungary
VU. S
War Crimes Commission
Pell
State Department
White House
Pelus
Roosevelt
England
Argentina Admission at San Francisco Conference Sparks Debate
The article analyzes the U S decision to support Argentina's admission to the San Francisco Conference, arguing that opposing it would damage Pan American solidarity. It notes Latin American unity on noninterference, criticizes U S and Russian motives, and highlights tensions over press freedom and international judgment of governments.
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U.S
Argentina
Washington
United States
San Francisco
San Franciscan
Rio Grande
Russia
Mexico City
Ray Francieto
Sonia
Department of State
Truman
Antese
Gan Ares
Buenos Aires
Molotov
Lis
Moscow
Ne Group of Nations
Okinawa name origins and map spellings explained
The text explains Okinawa from oka meaning large and jima meaning island, notes alternate spellings like Okinawajima and deijima, and discusses pronunciation variants for Ryukyus terms, archipelago names, and historical lending words. includes references to Ernie Pyle and Japanese media terms.
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Okinawa
Okinawajima
Jima
Jeeokinawajima
Ryukyus
Ernie Pyle
Deijima
Ieshima
House Island
Gant
Archipelago
Ielands
Shima
Foc Mountain
Tthe
Taiwan
Domel
Sette
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