The Troy Record Company and Officers Listing
The Troy Record Company owners include Darlan Flum president E H Betts vice president Frank L York treasurer and Dwight Marvin secretary. The paper notes subscribing and delivery options with rates for New York state counties and Vermont and circulation figures for February 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Troy Record Company
Darlan Flum
E. H. Betts
Frank L. York
Dwight Marvin
Troy
On the Threshold of the Balkans
The article notes the Russian army under Marshal Ivan S. Konev at the Prut River signaling a turning point on the eastern front. It discusses potential Russian advances toward Ploesti oil fields, the impact on Germany’s supply line, and the likely political disruption across the Balkans as Allied and Soviet advances threaten German control in Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria.
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Ivan S. Konev
Prut
Soviet Union
Stalingrad
U. S
Ukraine
Ploesti
Rumania
Balkan
Hungary
Bulgaria
Europe
Baloney Debate Sparks New York Exchange
A terse exchange in New York drew attention as contrasting claims and denials surfaced. The brief confrontation highlighted persistent skepticism and partisan tones in a charged public moment.
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New York
Defeatists Here And in England Defeatists Here And in England
An editorial column rebukes the Canterbury church leaders and fourteen Midwestern congressmen for questioning postwar aims. It defends unconditional surrender as the path to curb Germany and ensure a lasting Allied victory and a just peace.
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Canterbury
Reich
Middle West
Hull
France
Poland
Finland
Baltic States
State Department
Germany
Japan
Churchill renews pledge amid postwar planning in Britain
The speech by Prime Minister Churchill focuses on postwar Britain housing education health and social insurance while praising Allied wartime efforts. He reiterates strong Anglo American cooperation against Japan and stresses Britain will stand with the United States in the Pacific and Asiatic struggle after Germany’s defeat.
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Churchill
Atlantic
Europe
Great Britain
Britain
Soviet Union
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific
Germany
Ives committee backs labor with veterans in postwar industry
The Ives committee urges labor unions to welcome returning veterans into industry and warns against enforcing strict union membership requirements. It cites growing labor leadership reasonableness, noting the Machinists exemption for nonmembers and predicting millions of veterans will reenter industry after the war.
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Ives
International Association of Machinists
Salami Skewers OPA Rules in Comedic Tale
The Troy Record recounts Leo Hummel in Chicago or Milwaukee selling salami at 56 cents a pound. An inspector cites ceiling prices for soft and hard salami, weighing rules and “transmutation” of state policy. The piece mocks administrative jargon with a lampoon of wartime price controls.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Points West
Leo
Coney Island
Willkie Warns Against Narrow Postwar Security Alliances
In a broad critique, the piece argues against a US Britain security pact as the sole postwar framework. It cites Willkie and Smuts on inclusive Anglo American collaboration and warns that peace depends on Russia and China alongside Britain. The author urges multi power cooperation for lasting European and world stability.
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Providence Bulletin
Wendell Willkie
Dewey
United States
Great Britain
Willkie
Wisconsin
Field Marshal Smuts
Russia
Britain
China
War plant loafing sparks Senate worry on labor hoarding
Senate Military Affairs Committee hears secret testimony of war plant inefficiency. Witnesses describe workers loafing, deferred status for slow workers, and unfilled welds delaying repairs, with Mobile Alabama Dry Dock cited as example.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
H. R. Gibson
Mobile
Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company
Gibson
Russian push near Ploesti reshapes wartime oil battles
War dispatch notes Russian forces poised along the Prut and Siret rivers threaten German oil hub at Ploesti. Capture of Kamenets-Podolsk opens Siret valley drive, aiming at severing Danube links and pressuring Romania’s oil complex, with German defenses shifting southeast toward the Danube delta.
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Prut River
Kamenets-Podolskhev
Cernauds
Siret
Germnan
Ukraine
Nikolaev Odessa
Hitler
United Nations War Fellowship
Rumania
Danube
Galati
Prut
Carpathians
Transylvanian Alps
Stret
Romania
Cariathian
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Ploesti
Danube Delta
Readers letters on military grades and public transit
A set of readers letters discuss Army grade terminology from WW2, bus service extensions on Sycaway, civilian drinking vs service members, and Farm Security policies. Contributors from Troy Mechanicville and equivalents debate NRA and AAA, government control, and personal sacrifice versus policy, with critical comments from Ex-Service Man.
Churchill and Mountbatten Tie Japan Drive to Burma Route
The British and American allies coordinate in the Bay of Bengal to block Japanese advances toward Burma and the Burma Road. Lord Mountbatten leads Allied efforts in India and Burma, with US support despite concerns over Indian and London hesitations. Churchill trims his earlier long war interval forecast, hinting a shorter stretch before victory as monsoon weather improves.
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Britain
Far East
Singapore
Straits Settlements
Burma
Philippines
Asia
India
Japan
Orient
Churchill
America
Russia
Washington
Bay of Bengal
Malaya Straits
United States
Lord Louis Mountbatten
London
Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten
China
Hitler
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Associated Press
Focal News Dispatches
Troy Record
Times Record
Ryan Albany
Rensselaer
Saratoga
New York State
Bensington County
Vermont
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Balkans
England
Mr. Churchill
Opa Alchemy
Denys Wortman
Wortman
Merry
Drew Pearson
By Kirke L. Simpson
Kamenets-Podolsk
Lwow-Bucharest
Carpathian Mountain Wall
Black Sea
Iron Gate
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Ferguson
Maritime Commission
WSA
Harry Finck
War Shipping Administration
Brooklyn
Bethlehem Steel Company
New York City
Crow's Nest
Finch
Mess Hall
Finck
Bethlehem
Bethlehem Company
WAC
Faye M. Goldware
Kearny, i. J
Western Electric Company
Senate
Kearny
WAC Goldware
Murray
Montana
U. S. Pat
Record
Army
the Record
HO. W
Syeaway
Lake Avenue
Hoosick Street
Frear Park
Mohawk Avenue
Hoosick
Sycaway
Sycaway Proper
EB Wredick Troy
Herbert Cutting
Farmers and Control
Administration
A.A
Roosevelt
NRA
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
M. H. Devoe
Mechanicville
Italy
David Lawrence
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