Government must release facts for orderly postwar labor shift
With Germany's surrender and Pacific fighting wound down, employment will dip as war production contracts. Private industry will hire returning workers, requiring a coordinated, fact based approach by the government and labor agencies to prevent misimpressions and ensure orderly migration and reconversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Germany
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
Truman
Manpower Commission
Department of Labor
How Do We Know Cant Be Done Quote by Kettering
A short quotation from Charles F. Kettering, GM vice-president, arguing that failure does not prove impossibility. He likens belief in limits to a novice missing pitches against a great pitcher and cites Babe Ruth as an example of achievement through persistence.
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Babe Ruth
Charles F. Kettering
General Motors
Dignity and Honor in U S Russia Relations
A 1945 column denounces Soviet imperialism and American censorship. It calls for a bold return to hard policy, demanding Americans be admitted to Berlin, Vienna, and Prague, and urges decisive action to defend dignity and honor against Soviet pressure.
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Harry Hopkins
Soviet Russia
Comintern
Russia
Europe
Berlin
Vienna
Prague
United States
Stalin
Moscow
Hitler
Uncle Sap
Poland
China
Commodore Perry
Japan
Joe Stalin
Laurence Steinhardt
Czechoslovakia
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Prayer Wing unites crews with daily peace prayer
The Air Transport Command stages a Prayer Wing for all civilians to enroll by saying a daily prayer for peace. A B-24 gunner quotes a verse hoping for a day when killing is unnecessary, framing the Allied cause as seeking peace rather than conquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Air Transport Command
Division
Berkeley
Calif
Daily Gazette
Truman Dole Plan Draws Fire From Wartime Pay Critics
A 1945 King Features piece rails at President Truman for proposed unemployment and severance pay during postwar conversion. It targets Jimmy the Sweeper and UAW pay raises, contrasts merchant mariners' bonuses with armed services pay, and accuses Roosevelt and Truman of vote buying through wartime dole. The column warns of political manipulation and class favoritism amid postwar labor tensions.
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United Auto Workers of the
CIO
Hercules
Canton
Jimmy the Sweeper
United Auto Workers
Thomas V. de Lorenzo
Jimmy
Mr. Truman
Congress
Navy
National Maritime Union
Roosevelt
Maritime Union
Liverpool
Holyhead
Swansea
Southampton
Gibraltar
Oran
Sandy Hook
New York
Armed Services
Union
Joseph Curran
Soviet Union
Russia
Truman
King Features Syndicate
General store reconversion across retail lines
A New York Times piece argues that auto dealers cigar stores and other male oriented shops expanding into haberdashery or household goods signals not monopoly but reconversion toward the general store model. It notes gas stations drugstores and other retailers already diversify with non core products.
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General Store
New York Times
No Easy War In Pacific
Washington reports plans to drop two and a half times the bomb tonnage used against Germany in the next year to force surrender in Japan. Analysts note limited early effects on Tokyo and industrial targets, with no solid signs of imminent capitulation from bombing.
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Washington
Japan
Germany
Tokyo
Yokohama
Pacific
Hitler
Spain
Britain
von Rundstedt
Inal
Okinawa
King Features Syndicate
Washington Scene on Pillows and Lobbyists Lightly Satirized
A Washington column mocks lobbyists as “legislative engineers” and lampoons OPA pillow shipment rules. The writer shares readers’ letters, pokes fun at political finagling over expense accounts, and notes senators’ reluctance to vote on a controversial extra allowance.
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Westbrook
Manila
Philippines
James Thurber
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Brubaker
New Yorker
Washington Scene
Bybee
House of Representatives
Act of Congress
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Legislative Engineers
Paul W. Shafer
Michigan
OPA
America
Pentagon
H. Y. Murray
West 41St St
New York City
Marshall Adams
Miss Adams
Clare Luce
White House
Senate
House
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Les Biffle
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