[Victory : Official Weekly Bulletin of the Office of War Information. V. IV, Nos. 1-26, Index]
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VICTORY
Official Weekly Bulletin of the Office of War Information
INDEX
January 1, 19h3 to June 30, 1943
Vol. IV
Nos. 1-26
Official Weekly Bulletin	INDEX
of the	Jan. 1-June 30
VICTORY	Office of Whr Information_________________19U3_____
A	Page
Absenteeism:
Adequate eating facilities in plants reduce absenteeism................ 626
Community child-care program held partial solution to problem of absenteeism •••••• ..................... , . . . . ............ 55U
Guidebook describes causes and suggests remedy methods..............
Many causes found for job absenteeism, and Government agencies try to find the answer............................................ 21^
Plan prepared by WMC and WPB to combat absences........................ 291
Report on results of surveys made by Labor Department ......	K62
Systematic planning important in reducing plant absences ....	526
Transportation shortage and bad living conditions blamed for many absences...................................................   ^61
Absentees! (Cartoon by Coakley)	285
Accident prevention:
Absenteeism due to sickness is 10 times as great as absenteeism due to injury .........i	361
Campaign launched for eye safety ...............................   315
Firemen sign pledge to aid campaign.....................................  5
Experts trained for safety program  .................................   485
Labor Department moves to cut industrial accident rate................. 628
Man-days saved last year by accident prevention program amounted to more than a million.................................   153
Maritime shipyards reduce accidents .  ...........................	.	601
Protection plan for young war workers (Children’s Bureau) • • • •	123
Safety needs of children outlined by OCD............................... 235
Women workers warned to cover their hair............................... 155
Africa, (see also North Africa; Tunisia): Air supremacy won by Allies in northwest Africa..................
Allies expected to driye against Nazis in Africa....................	I36
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Agriculture:
Activities of the Department of Agriculture outlined by
President Roosevelt..................................................   358
Butter shortage due to service men’s need......................... 1J8
City folk and school children to be recruited for land army . .	150
Corn, barley, hempseed, cotton, and wheat production............... 56
Com prices frozen at levels in excess of 100 percent parity .	75
Cost of goods used by farm families............................... 682
Credit resources ready to aid fam families of flood areas , .	6O7
Crop acreage increases.........................................    262
Crop Corps of 3 »5$$»$$$ volunteers needed to take jobs on farms 257 Crop prospects for 1943 ...................................199.624,671
Deferments liberalized to keep more workers on farms.............. 120
Dollar-a-year men rejected by Secretary Wickard................... 120
Equipment demand continues heavy.....................................   458
Farm credit facilities listed ... ..................................... 643
Farm employment falls 2 percent below average of June 1942 . .	671
Fam income up 59 percent ...........................................	646
Farm labor parity bill passed by House . .............................. 332
Fam labor supply sufficient to meet goals, Chester C. Davis
finds ..............................................................    506
Fam machinery distribution authorized by WPB........................... 656
Fam machinery increase and revised deferments expected to ease
food costs ...........................................................  102
Farm machinery program emphasizes output of harvesting equipment 633 Fam machinery rationing order cuts delay in using equipment .	6O7
Fam manpower problem............................................   439
Fam workers being deferred at rate of 6,500 a day................  297
Famers asked to produce more high protein feeds . . . . ,. . . 345 Earners to get needed supplies for increased food production .	576
Fire prevention campaign is aimed to save forest areas as
large as New York State from destruction ..........	266
Five-year food program prepared to increase supply of critical
foods . ............................................................... 319
Food available in groceries to be 10 percent less this year . .	67
Food exports in relation to supply (chart)........................	.	100
Food problem in America as food becomes weapon of war against
Hitler  ................................................................ 68
Food production and distribution will be coordinated .....	69
Food’s importance emphasized........................................... 383
Gasoline shortage brings crisis in food production in Northeast 559 Growers of tomatoes, peas, sweet corn, and snap beans for
canning assured a larger return than in 1942 .......................... 165
Haiti meets war emergency by growing strategic materials . . .	100
Importance of edible oils emphasized by new orders....................  486
Increased food production by loans and victory gardens is
Wickard*s aim........................................................   121
Japanese-Americans taking fam jobs..................................... 677
x Labor recruiting to aid famers and canners begun .......	199
Labor will be recruited for war production on farms................... 122.
Meat slau^iter permit system strikes at black market................... 296
Millers asked to produce more flour to meet 1943 requirements .	406
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Agriculture, continued:
More farm equipment ordered by WPB Chairman Nelson ......	105
North Africa seen as food supplier—could feed Allied forces .	283
Office of War Information to release agriculture news ....	206
Pasture seed loans	2^48
Plans made to meet farm labor shortage	337
Pleasure driving ban in effect in East to insure gas for use
in farm tractors	553
Plenty of Victory Garden supplies	430
Potato shipments from South improve supply situation	558
President asks for $65»OOO,OOO to transport farm laborers	229
President calls on farmers for unprecedented food production
in igUj	70
President recommends appropriation of an additional
$100,000,000 for “incentive payments” to farmers producing
certain commodities	>	201
Rationing flow of food transferred from Agriculture to OPA	2U7
Savings to farmers through price control (chart)	179
Seed for shipment to allied nations amounted to more than
12,000,000 pounds	406
Senate passes legislation to recruit, transport, house farm
workers	U15
Shortage of trailers	for hauling farm produce reported	385
Soybean uses increased	458
Specific quantities of farm items ordered set aside for
purchase	67O
Stabilization of vegetable markets aim for War Food
Administration	539
Steady progress in curbing	hog	cholera	263
Steps taken to produce	more	food	151
Tight supply of farm equipment calls for careful planning	U87
Volunteer agricultural workers wanted to the number of
3,500,000 (Cartoon by Coakley)	200
War Manpower Commission to train 10,000,000 workers for war
industry and agriculture	679
Weed killer supply meets major needs	56
Air campaign in Tunisia on schedule	U27
Air supremacy won by Allies in northwest Africa	U5I
Aircraft:
Army needs aircraft watchers	I85
Battle of Guadalcanal demonstrates U.S. superiority in planes and men	202
Bomb tonnage dropped on Europe in May IQ percent above any
previous month	595
Bomber production at Willow Run expected to reach peaK
within a year	2^3
Divisions of Mediterranean Air	Command explain?/	523
Equal pay for equal work ordered for Coast air plant*	298
Ford’s Willow Run Bomber Plant is the largest producing
aircraft factory in the world	133
Goal of approximately 100,000 warplanes in 19^3 about twice
as many as produced in 194-2	400
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Aircraft, continued:
Plan adopted for production of heavier types......................... 549
Plane output increased............................................    513
Production of aircraft one of major production programs (WPB
Chairman Nelson) ..................................................   72
Production of aviation industry will exceed $20,000,000,000
this year	604
Production in April reached a total of $1,649,000,000	593
Production in January was 5»000 planes, 65 percent of which .
were of combat type	291
P-38’s have distinguished themselves	7
P-40 fighter praised as dive bomber	202
Surrender of Pantelleria resulted from “continuous and intense air bombardment, supported by naval bombardment“	623
“Tailor shops” where planes are swiftly modified to meet special requirements	24
Thunderbolt (P-47) better than Focke-Wulf	190
Training planes may be rented to students training for war
(CAA)	435
Airline fares: Civil Aeronautics Board asks 10 percent cut in fares	284
Air-raid protection regulations adopted for Eastern Military
Area reduce interruption of war production	129
Alaska:
Mines yielded minerals to the value of $19,3O&»OOO in 1942, most of which was gold	9
Park Service to aid in settlement along Alcan Highway	404
Salmon canning industry may be cut nearly 50 percent	306
Vital war minerals found in Alaska	3%
Alcohol: Five new plants designed to produce at least
36,000,000 gallons of alcohol a year	290
Aleutian Islands:
Bad weather hampers Americans in struggle for Attu Island	547
Fight for Attu raging	541
Story of Attu capture	571
Alexander cartoons:
Teamwork will break it in	573
Victory garden—“Watch those chickens, pal“	413
Alien property:’ Enemy-owned patents numbering 18,000 listed
by Alien Property Custodian for sale	11
Aliens:
EBI has arrested 13,000 aliens since U.S. entry into war	532
Hiring of alien workers urged by WMC Chairman McNutt	437
Procedure for hiring aliens shortened and simplified	601
Aluminum:
Allotments under the Controlled Materials Plan include
300,000 tons of aluminum	171
Combined committee on aluminum formed	330
Use of aluminum limited under new WPB ruling	310
Antifreeze ruins thousands of cars	137
Antistrike bill: President’s veto overridden by Congress	665
Antitrust: Immunity for joint operation of common carriers	419
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Appointments and resignations:
Administrative set-up of Food Production Administration approved by Agriculture Secretary Wickard................................ 156
Chester Davis resigns as war food head; Marvin Jones takes post 685
Deferment Review Committee named...................................  3k8
Governor Lehman appoints his staff for Foreign Relief
Operations ...... ................................ ........	86
Labor vice chairmen appointed to WLB	661
Milton Eisenhower resigns OWI post	5^-6
Naval aide to the President, and other appointments, etc.	187
War Meat Board members named	611
War Mobilization Committee appointed	5®
Appointments and resignations	12k, 220, 252, 280,
295.	323 . 372, 392, 414, 445, 471, 492, 516» 5ko, 56k,	611, 637. 661
Apprentice training pamphlets issued	3^5
Apprentice training program enlarged	8k
Appropriations:
Deficiency appropriation of $22,410,000	277
First deficiency appropriation bill for 19k3 amounts to $4,106,262,194 (	333
House approves appropriations to State, Justice and Commerce
Departments	415
House passes supplemental Naval bill of $4,000,000,000 for mobile floating drydock program	287
Independent offices appropriation bill for $2,616,972»913»
and other appropriations	231
Lend-lease authorizations and appropriations amount to
$55,000,000,000	131
National Resources Planning	Board	denied	funds	201
Navy appropriation bill of	$29»463,687,192 approved	53k
President asks Congress for $65,000,000 to transport farm
laborers	229
President asks large appropriation for Navy	167
Senate Appropriations Committee approves Navy’s
$24,850,427,192 19kk bill	598
Total military bill for war of 1914-18 was only $31,000,000,000
but appropriations and authorizations since July 1940 already total about $240,000,000,000	377
Arms and ammunition production running 300 percent above 1942	311
Army:
Air Forces Convalescent Training Program being extended to under-par recruits	436
Aircraft watchers needed	I85
Armed forces need 11,000,000 by	1944	(Commissioner McNutt)	627
Army and Navy announce first list of 281 colleges for special
training	162-3
Camps to have Victory gardens	323
Cargo shipped to overseas troops averaging 82 pounds per man per day, compared with 43 in previous	war	35k
Conservation of rubber results from Amoy program to redesign equipment	32k
Contracts under investigation to discover frauds or irregularities	72
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Army, continued:
Coordinated action bringing excellent results .........
Deaths from wounds reduced to less than 3 percent.................
Doctors, dentists, and civilians to be drawn in large numbers from civilian practice in 1943 ................................
Dogs in action under the Army’s K-9 Command
Drinking not excessive among American troops (OWI survey)
Each soldier’s equipment sent overseas is between 5	12 tons
Educational gains to be tested
Entertainment furnished troops abroad by 266 entertainers in
4^ units
Explains plan of college training
Hospitals get first-run movies in program introduced by Red Cross
Japanese-Americans in Army to form combat team
Laundries on battle front
Meals carefully planned to provide maximum energy
Medical needs of armed forces in 1943 can be met by an additional 10,000 physicians
Men retain grades in Army Specialized Training Program
Mopping up Japs on Attu
New list of colleges for special training announced
New rules govorn soldiers* mail
Price control for Army materials
Procedure fcr Army transfers announced
Radar use described
Red Cross asked to procure 4,000,000 pints of blood for Army and Navy during 1943
Salvage materials collected at overseas bases and returned to this country
Service men get cream of energy producing foods
Soldiers express appreciation of work of Red Cross
Specialized Training Units formed at 18 colleges
Survey shows letters from home have strong effect on soldiers’ morale
Troop and supply movement four times as great as in one year of last world war
Tunisian victory places first bloc of eneny people under Army
Victory gardens planted at Anny camps
Work supervisors trained by Army
Army-Navy:
Announce contract policy
List of approved colleges for war training announced
Army College qualifications for basic and advanced training
Australia:
Contributes material aid under lend-lease plan
Provides for U.S. wounded under reciprocal lend-lease
Reciprocal lend-lease has supplied American troops with large quantities of food
Automobile license plates to be reissued in 41 States
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Automobiles:
Antifreeze ruins thousands of cars.............;.................... 137
More cars released to more people under liberalized rationing rales.......................................................    275
Passenger-car care emphasized......................................  3^5
Plane spotters can get new cars	102
Purchase of new auto depends on need	456
Rationing quota for June set at 51»000	5^2
Reasons for rationing	5$
Storage rules offered by ODT	239
Aviation (see also Aircraft):
Civil Air Patrol constitutes world’s largest home guard	674
Flight strips save planes from crashes	115
Awards:
Certificates of Individual Production Merit awarded 53
production soldiers and Letters of Honorable Mention to 104 others	3&3
Engineer gets Citation of Individual Production merit—highest distinction a war worker can attain	,	246
Farm families enlisted in 1943 Food production program to be awarded Certificate of Fara War Service	296
Flight ingenuity of Gerald Cherymisin in repairing damaged bomber and taking load of evacuees to Australia wins a' medal 77
Labor-management committees have received 400,000 suggestions and 26,000 awards have been made	55
Navy withholds “E” awards from organizations failing to show good employee-attendance records	3^1
President decorates Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandergrift with Congressional Medal of Honor	167
Axis goods diverted to United Nations by HEW amount to $34,000,000	134	.
Axis propaganda affected by United Nations Broadcasts (OWI
Director Davis)	77
Axis reaction to Casablanca	meeting	134
Axis war prisoners may	be	put	on	farms	178
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Banks: Commercial banks will handle rationing stamp and coupon deposits same as ordinaiy checking accounts	52
Banks in conquered countries looted by Nazis (OWI)	544
Batteries:
Farm radio battery shortage may be relieved by re-scheduling 363
Hearing aid batteries made available	289
More storage batteries in 1943	40
’’Battle Stations for All“—booklet explaining program to control living costs	353
Bedspring—new type—contains no metal	104
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Beer: Restriction of shipment to conserve rail facilities . . . .	504
Belgium: Effect of Nazi “total mobilization” ....................... 378
Bicycles: Eligibility no longer conditioned by job classification 83 Black markets:
Attacked by OPA	3^7
Courts act to curb black market deals	357
Germans operate flourishing black markets in Warsaw	19b
Indictment of a ring of seven meat-packing concerns	411
Jail for meat racketeers urged by Price Administrator Brown 261 Meat black market operators becloud shortage	217
Meat buying for military needs affected by black markets	481
Meat dealers must get permits	296
Operation of black markets would have direct bearing on
inflation	195
Poultry black market operations	bring 229 court actions	55O
Reduction in black markets brought about by 35 treble-damage
suits won by OPA	609
Retail price ceilings on meats expected to strike heavy blow at black markets	294
Serious menace to America’s war effort	388, 389
Waste vital food, medicines, etc.	Î53
What happens to our meat supply	503
Blood donors asked to triple their quotas this year	111
Blood plasma saved lives of hundreds of wounded at Pearl Harbor 259 Boats included under nonessential use restrictions	116
Bolshevism: Axis trying to drive wedge between England and
America by using threat of Bolshevism (OWI Director Davis)	227
Bombsight: Civil Air Patrol has a 20-cent bombsight	675
Book campaign:
Give appropriate books’, (cartoon by Coakley)	101
Plans set up to send books to prisoners of war and civilian internees in enemy-occupied countries	376
Book drive for armed services started January 5	5
Book drive launched to collect millions ©f good books for men
and women in the armed forces	37
Bottlenecks:
“Task forces“ to break bottlenecks in war production	212
Transportation bottlenecks to be eased by ODT	478
Boy Scouts serve OWI as dispatch bearers	679
Brazil: President Roosevelt, on way home from Casablanca
Conference, confers with President Vargas	135
Bread-slicing ban lifted	319
Britain:
Anglo-American food production is	highly coordinated	330
British companies help fuel navy	565
Canteen services provide low-cost meals in Britain’s war
industry plants	484
Large percentage of lend-lease aid went to Britain in 1942	211
Lend-lease beef shipments to Britain very small in January
and February	357
Lend-lease helped make Britain safe base for African offensive 143
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Britain, continued:
Newspapers giving greater proportion of their space to news about the U.S..............................................     2^0
Pre-war nutrition research aids British food program . ....	5^1
Radar said to have saved England in the blitz of 1940-41 . . .	^46
Rationing in England	282
Substitutes used by the British	56$
Success in avoiding inflation shows what can be done	354
Supplies ships, planes, guns, and bases to American troops
under lend-lease	,	99
U.S. provides 10 percent of Britain’s food supply	496
Women war workers represent 4o percent of total (OWI)	15
Britain and U.S, sign agreement to avoid litigation over marine accidents	36
Brotherhood Week, February 19-28	228
Brown, Prentiss M.:
Confirmed as Price Administrator	103
Predicts slow, well ordered rise in prices	102
Promises to relax rules on rationing Whenever possible	260
Buchmanites may not be deferred as a group	46
Budget: President calls for war budget of $100,000,000,000 for
fiscal year 1944	70
Bulgaria: Effect of Nazi	’’total mobilization”	37$
Burma: Jungle-trained tribesmen patrol border, under British
officers	111
Buses ordered to reduce mileage in eastern shortage area	5$5
Business:	,
Commerce review predicts 1943 gain in profits	680
Office of Price Administration permits changes in price structure—aluminum use limited by WEB	310
Policies planned to benefit the American civilian	267
Price support helps growers, prevents squeeze on processors	149
Businessmen aided by WEB in finding their way about Washington
and in solving their war production problems	220
Butter:
Ceiling prices end butter freeze	215
Rationed March 29	3^5
Service men’s need for butter causes shortage for civilians 178 Shortage causes increase in margarine production	25
Supply for 1943 to be about one-fourth pound a week per
person—far more than the allowance in any part of Europe 165 Supply for civilians may be reduced from 16 pounds in 1942 to
13 pounds in 1943	•	33
Byrnes, Justice James F., resigns as Economic Stabilization
Director and is appointed Director of the Office of War
Mobilization	v	5^9
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Canada:
Food supplies furnished to Great Britain in 1942 were much greater than in 193$	330
Pulp and pulpwood from Canada reduced	256
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Canning:
Industry will call for 400,000 workers............................... 5^5	I
Production of 125,000 additional pressure cookers authorized by WPB......................................................... 608
War Production Board acts to assure enou^i materials for home canning......................................................   j41
Canteen services provide low-cost meals in Britain’s war industry plants	484
Carbon monoxide poisoning	dangers described in circular	5^4
Car-sharing:
Increase asked by Price Administrator Brown	289
Sharing of private transportation is absolutely essential (OCD Director Landis)	}12
Cartoons:
A V-Home salvages materials needed for war production	105
A Word To the Wives is Sufficient! (hoarding)	68
Absentees! (Coakley)	285
’’Adolph Hitler slept here.”	5^
All Ears! (Coakley)	35
All Hands!—fighting the Axis menace	333
At the barber shop—Be Careful—loose talk may cost a life	117
Axidunce (industiy casualty list)	628
Black market—Profits first	411
Black market taking food from U.S. soldiers	481
Black Markets in Meat—the Vulture ’ s Boost!	3$9
Civil Air Patrol	674, 675
’’Come, Don’t Be Sentimental”—Nazis deporting 3$0»$0$
Netherlands workers to Germany	355
"Dumkopf! They’re using that divide and conquer stuff on us now! ”	625
Dunkirk: ’’Who Would Have Thought This Stuff Would Ever Be
Useful To Us”	401
“Food for Thought” (Walt	Disney)	139
(Four miscellaneous)	31, 63, 95» 127» 159» 191» 223,,255
Fuel for a common cause!	(Reciprocal Lend-lease) (Coakley)	131
Germany reports no material damage done	607
Give appropriate books!	(Coakley)	101
Goebbels’ Press Conference: “There is no victory in Africa.
The Allies have only lengthened their lines of communication”	505
’’Help Wanted”	459
Hitler “In the limelight”	669
Hitler’s doubles	463
Inflation	53^
Inflation threat—If we could only get him on the absentee list	551
Jap Militarists’	“Co-prosperity” program	653
Kid Salvage (Steig)	42, 73» 1$9»
155	. 184, 205, 273, 283. 313. 363. 392. U23, 446, U71, 4s4, 520, 525, 5U9, 576, 601, 640, 650, 680
Ladyof Fashion—Spring 19^3 (Coakley)	U37
Let the experts do the job!—Cooperate with the FBI against saboteurs	5$9
“Let’s have a family portrait, children. Who knows where we’ll be next year?”	657
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Cartoons, continued: Life Jacket Stuffin’ Inc.......................................  368
Missing Cogs’ (Coakley) ......................................... 9
Music While They Work.........................................  333
No Room (soldier tears up his brief furlough).................. 621
Nonessential travel (How about giving our service men a break?) 6O5 Not enough territory gained to bury their dead	427
Nurse shortage—65.000 student nurses urgently needed	483
Off the Fat of the Land (Coakley)	309
“Our soldiers are equipped as never before ...” (Hitler)	633
Pass the Ammunition!	377
Reckless spending)	647
So what, little man?	(Hitler	surrounded by ring of steel)	496
Teamwork Will Break It In	573
Tell the EBI—it will	do a better	job	554
The Constant Companion (Round-the-clock Bombing)	547
“The German any was never better equipped.“—Adolph Hitler 579 “The Lash Over Europe“	57O
United States Employment Service puts the right man in the
right job, in the right place, at the right time (Coakley) 243 V-Home conservation slogan	*	85
Victory Garden reminder (Coakley)	257
Victory Garden—“Watch those chickens, pal“	413
Vitamins for victory	472
Volunteer Agricultural Workers Wanted (Coakley)	200
“Westchester Special“	460
What Did You Do Today for Freedom?	1JC
Where there*s smoke, there’s—carelessness	(Coakley)	169
“Within the Axis“—economic chains	665
“You stay out—We are planning Italy’s defense line.“	475
Casablanca meeting story broadcast 721 times in 21 languages
within 24 hours after communique	134
Casualties:
Axis loses 6 planes to our 1	523
German and Italian losses in Tunisia, Japanese plane losses
in Solomons 324 to 5^ American planes	379
Industry casualty list worse than for first 18 months of
warfare	628
Japanese casualties in or on way to Guadalcanal estimated at 30,000 to 50,000	202
Killed, wounded, missing, and interned since Pearl Harbor, total 61,126	45
Many casualty notices unclaimed	38O
Merchant marine casualties in one year of war were more than
3*200 or 3.8 of the total number	181
Substantial casualties in Battle of Tunisia beyond the
65.	3^0 total previously announced by the Army and Navy	230
Total casualties of armed forces reach 87,304	668
Tunisian casualties of U.S. number 1,258	136
U.S. casualties in all theaters 72.235 since outbreak of the
war	451
Catholic Bishop of Berlin 'excoriates Nazi philosophy	97~9^
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Cattails used, for life-jackets............................ • . .	568
Censorship:
Allied, committee controls military censorship in North Africa •	103
Insurance companies and brokers warned by Attorney General
Biddle that infonnation sent abroad injures the U.S. .. . .	77
Ceramic bottle and jar closures	467
Cereals: Increased production of cereals asked	455
Charts:
Official table of consumer point values for meat, fats, fish, and cheese	344
Strikes in war industries—19^2	175
War facts, indices of American industrial effort, financial
data, etc;	338
Who goes in thé armed forces	485
Checks: Secret Service suggests ways to prevent Government . checks from being stolen and forged	676
Cheese:
Rationed March 29	3$5
Rationing point values	329
Chemicals:
Allocations reported by WPB	632
April allocations valued at about $131,000,000	441
Distribution in one month amounts to $93,000,000	31$
Monthly distribution of chemicals for January amounted to
$¿5,400,000 in value	7U
Child care:
Michigan and Georgia get funds for care of children	27
President has approved 39 war nurseries and daycare centers
for children of working mothers	39
Child-care program held major aid to war effort	55^
Child labor:
Thirteen percent of farm workersare under 1U years of age	671
Young workers in food processing will have legal protection 63O
Children: Safety needs outlined by OCD	285
Children’s Bureau studies various occupational hasards to young war workers	123
China:
Chinese engineers study	in America	517
Lend-lease aid by plane now exceeds shipments formerly sent
over Burma Road	.	250
Lend-lease aid to China	pitifully	small	143
Lend-lease material being flown to China in as great
quantities as ever traveled over the Burma Road, President
says	38
Madame Chiang Kai-shek pleads with Congress for more aid to
China	231
President Roosevelt assures Mme. Chiang Kai-shek U.S. will
give more aid to China	229
Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves treaty
relinquisihing extraterritorial	rights in China	201
Citrus fruit program announced by Agriculture Secretary Wickard 69 Civil Aeronautics Board asks 10 percent cut in airline fares	284
Civil Air Patrol: World’s largest home guard	67^
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Civil Service Commission: Positions listed ............... . 27, 59, 79,
11U, 15U, 188, 218, 2U9, 272, 299, 321, 372, 396, U20, U69, U93. 519,
5^0, 56U, 589, 611, 637 Civilian defense:
Campaign launched to make “eveiy civilian a fighter”.............. 168
Fire prevention aid requested in eastern seaboard States . .	420
Model ordinance for civilian defense agencies drafted by OCD .	76
New system of alarms reduces interruption of war production 129 Plans for guarding war plants announced	400
Safety needs of children outlined by OCL	285
Volunteers recruited for dangerous home-front work	616
Civilian supply (see also Rationing):
Butter shortage may reduce civilian consumption to 1J pounds compared‘with 16 pounds in 1942	33
Civilians asked to eliminate nonessential vacation travel Xo make way for movement of more than 2,000,000 troops a month 620
Civilians could do with 23 percent less goods (Civilian Supply
Director Weiner)	143
Consumer goods show decrease	41
Fuel prospects for the winter	652
Office of Civilian Supply toadminister the country’s civilian needs	534
Refrigerators, light bulbs, radio tubes, etc.	393
Restricting articles civilians use saves critical materials
to the extent of about 2,000,000 tons a year	244
Scarcity of civilian goods is potential cause of inflation	245
Shortages of some kinds of foods expected,OWI report says	425
Supplies of sheets, towels, cases adequate for civilian needs 688 Symposium, ’’What 1943 Holds in Store for the Civilian
Population,” by nine Government officials	3
Week-end travel by civilians hampers war transportation	641
Civilians promised adequate medical care	58
’’Claimant Agencies” established to present claims for critical
materials to WPB	42
Clothing:
Ceiling prices halted war increases (chart showing increase 1939 to 1942)	215
Material for dresses limited by WPB order	565
Model work clothes to be available	443
New price rules for women’s and girls’ dresses	75
Rationing not in present prospect (OWI Director Davis)	288
Trouser cuff restrictions lifted	632
Coakley cartoons: ,
A Word To the Wives is Sufficient!	68
All Ears*	35
Fuel for a common cause! (Reciprocal Lend-lease)	131
Missing Cogs!	9
Off the Fat of the land	309
Where there’s smoke, there’s—carelessness	169
Coal:
All-rail coal deliveries reach new record	384
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Anthracite strike has cut hard coal production approximately 40,000 ..tons daily...........................................   83
Assured New Englanders as fuel-oil users are urged to switch to coal......................................................... 37
Bituminous coal labor dispute summarized..........................'.	59b
Consumers asked to stock coal now	585
Consumers with short supplies of coal to get supplies from
railroad cars	479
Home and industrial users urged to order early	652
Miners1 demands for $2-a-day wage increase denied by NWLB	572
Miners return to work after Government seizure of mines	473
Miners’ weekly earnings found lower than those in other war
industries	548
Prices discussed by executives of 10 largest coal companies 531
Production loss through strikes	619
Shipments over Great Lakes limited to insure space for ore
shipments	537
Shipments to New England decreased to lowest point in more
than two years	655
Six-day week in coal mines	asked	by	Ickes	59
Soft coal production in 194} reached all-time high of
580,000,000 tons	96
Strike in Pennsylvania anthracite mines has cost Eastern
States about a million	tons	of	hard	coal	87
Use of coal and gas increasing as oil production declines	46j
Wage agreements in coal industry urged by Solid Fuels
Coordinator for War Ickes	198
Coffee:
Allotment cut for new restaurants	83
Ceiling prices fixed	110
Meat certificates may be used for the purchase of sugar and
coffee	432
Ration now 1 pound in 6 weeks	184
Reasons for rationing	5$
Reduced from one pound every 5 weeks to one pound every 6
weeks	169
Small quantities of substitute coffee available in France	42b
Stamp No. 26 covers five weeks	317
Collective bargaining: Labor disputes should be settled by
collective bargaining	233
Colleges and universities—five more approved for Army-Navy
training	38I
Colleges faced with teacher	shortage	84
Commerce Department to curtail	questionnaires to businessmen	213
Committees speed war production (WPB)	j	549
Commodity Credit Corporation stocksdouble those of a year ago	539
Communications:
Priorities ordered for radio and wire messages bearing on
national defense and security	124
Women hold important positions in field	of communications	678
Community ceiling prices for family market-basket foods
established	499
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Community ceiling prices for family market-basket foods established........................................................ 499
Community shows explain rationing, food production, balanced diet 448 Compliance (see also Black markets; Law enforcement):
Black market hit by indictments...................................... 411
Court decisions favorable to OPA in 96 percent of cases ....	609
Courts act to curb black market deals	357
Drive to enforce compliance brings actions against 150 garment makers	551
Meats-fats distributors’ compliance report must be submitted by May 31	455
Penalties for violation of Stabilization Act	436
Violations, penalties, etc.	209
Violators of WPB regulations penalized	269
War labor Board will compel compliance with its decisions	667
Concentration of industry study a “dead pigeon”	441
Congress;
Both houses convened January 6 for 78th Congress	39
Compromise tax bill, plant seizure bill, Government pay bill, etc.	498
Considers action on manpower and wage issues	415
Control over war measures will be exercised by Congress	71
Death penalty for hostile acts against the United States	380
Eliminates CPA’s price roll-back program	665
Flynn recalls nomination	135
Hears plea of Madame .Chiang Kai-shek for more aid to China	231
Higher debt limit provided by bill	356
House approves antistrike bill requiring 30-day waiting period	59^
House passes appropriation bill providing war agencies’ funds	642
House passes $4,000,000,000 supplemental naval bill	287
House votes nullification of Silver Purchase Act	201
Lend-lease extended one year	307
Rules Committee approves resolutions for several new investi-
gations of departments and agencies	168
Senate acts to aid farmers' deferment	332
Senate committee votes to extend lend-lease for one year	277
Senate passes agricultural appropriations bill providing
$850,680,709	625
Senate passes revised Rumi tax plan	534
Tax bill conferees	agree	570
Tax due March 15 must be paid. Congress warns, re^rdless of
proposed changes	in the	internal-revenue	law	168
Telegraph merger, industrial	loan bills	reported.	103
Conservation:
America’s spree with natural resources brought painful hang-
over (interior Secretary Ickes) ...	11
Army redesigns equipment to save rubber stocks	384
Bedsprings of new "war models” contain no metals	104
Cargo space conserved by improved methods of packaging	217
Civilians must conserve food in every possible way	68
Construction machinery must be conserved because of increased
demands	335
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Conservation, continued:
Five-point conservation program outlined................................... 42
New specifications to conserve hosiery.................................... 392
Paper conservation urged by WPB for schools and colleges . . .	525.
Prevention of crop spoilage and waste of food will require
400,000 workers in canning industry	5^5
Rail facilities saved by restrictions on beer shipments	5^4
Restricting articles civilians use saves about 2,000,000 tons
a year of critical metals	244
“Ride sharing must be made a universalpre.ctice“	313
Saving of steel, tin, rubber, and shipping space by order to
canners to use more No. 10 cans	3H
Taxi owners in Chicago agree to save tire miles	313
Ten simple rules for saving heat suggested by OPA	74
Total war economy brings changes in business picture in
connection with valves, tin, rayon, elevators, etc.	149
Wartime restrictions on materials challenge American ingenuity in producing substitutes .	568
Construction:
Builders to receive help from WPB Materials Control Branch	41
Costs of construction reached an all-time high in 1942 of
$13,600,000,000	72
Government-financed construction June 1940 to December 31»
1942	241
Machinery for construction purposes must be utilized efficiently 335 Nonindustrial war construction—commitments, completions,
etc., from June 1940	177
Nonindustrial war construction from June 1940 to November 1942 4j
Nonwar projects stopped by WPB	102
Overseas buying of material saves ship space	239
Procedure revised for small construction authorizations	172
Projects having a total cost of $1,325»545»454 have been
stopped during the past five months	391
Ship construction records broken in February	281
Value of new construction continues to drop	•	465
War construction June 1940 to December 31» 1942	210
War construction June 1940-Jan. 31» 1943 •	3^2
War facilities program cost $19,339»000,000	b54
Consumer goods show decrease	41
Containers:
Bulk size containers rationed	607
Ceramic bottle and jar closures	467
Glass containers standardized for commercial canning	407
Navy develops new packaging methods to expedite delivery of war malerials	217
Shipping containers get high preference ratings	274
Shipping containers to be improved	3^9
Contracts:
Army and Navy announce contract policy	391
Renegotiation of war contracts	267
Renegotiation of contracts saves$2,500,000,000	489
Smaller War Plants Corporation helps 4,200 firms get contracts 681
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Contracts, continued:
Yardstick applied to negotiation of contracts and renegotiation of prices in previously awarded contracts of War and Navy Departments.................................................... •	212
Controlled Materials Plan:
Booklet defines rights and obligations of industry ................... 73
Industry procedures under CMP completed.............................  212
Manufacturers warned to get their application blanks in soon .	96
Conversion:	.
Delayed payment plan	announced for	fuel-saving installations	465
Oil to coal conversion urged as New Englanders are assured coal	37
Cookers authorized by	WPB	for	home canning	608
Couper:
Allotments under the Controlled Materials Plan include 600,000 tons of copper	171
Price cut on copper castings announced	148
Production in 1942 sets new mark	9
Recovery of idle copper aids war effort	524
Restrictions expected to save 600,000 pounds a quarter	5H
Scrap collection from motion-picture projection arc lamps may amount to 2/0,000 pounds	290
Corn:
Deliveries ordered by WFA	656
Higher corn price ceilings to alleviate feed shortage	431
Loans made on 1942 corn	506
Loans on 1942 corn amount to $42,561,3/2.$5	458
Prices frozen	/5
Correction: Headline, “Com prices frozen at highest levels, 100$ in excess of parity,” should have been “in excess of 100$ parity,” as in text	110
Cost of living:
Booklet explains program to control living costs	353
Brakes put on cost of living by wage-price relationship	228
Controls allow adequate margin for profit	( 55$
Food costs increase 0.8 percent in May 1943	648
Four-point program to roll back cost of living	4/4
Fruits and vegetables held mainly responsible for rise in food prices	147
Goods purchased in large cities	634
How to keep your food bill down	6/3
Increase from January 1942 to January 1943 in cost of goods purchased in large cities	322
Increase in cost of goods purchased in large cities 91» 146, 210, 416
Increased approximately 20 percent since January 1941 while
earnings have increased more than 5$ percent in the same
period	36/
Percent of increase from November 1941	4/
Percentage of	increase	one year ending December 1942	1//
Percentage of	increase	1941 to 1943 in city and country	2/0
Percentage of	increase	from February 1941 to February 1943	390
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Cost of living, continued:
Price regulations to cover all cost-of-living items..................... 408
Prices and rents to "be held at levels of last mid-September . ,	573
Prices investigated in coal mining areas .  ............................ 473
Warsaw living costs up 1,100 percent	193» 1%
Cotton:
Low-grade cotton program announced	35$
Yarn production increase reported for first quarter of 1943	632
Crop prospects:
Good for 19^3	199
Floods necessitate replanting	671
Less promising than in any of last three years	624
D
Dandelions, Russian: Experimental planting for rubber
production	121
Davis, Chester C,:
Named administrator of Food	Production and Distribution	35$
Resigns as war food head	685
Davis, Elmer (OWI Director):
Broadcasts weekly summaries, beginning March 12, 1943	264
Reports on Nazi “talk offensive”	194
Says Nazis using threat of Bolshevism in underground
propaganda to create schism between England and America	227
Tells gist of Axis broadcasts branding White Book of State
Department as lies	36
United Nations broadcasts having an effect on Axis propaganda 77 Will soon begin weekly 15-minute radio broadcasts	167
Daylight saving: War time continuance urged by Under Secretaries
of War and Navy—saved 1,500,000,OCX) kilowatt hours last year 284
Decentralization of Federal agencies:
National War Labor Board decentralized program launched	I85
Pay adjustments decentralized	I53
Deferment:
Agricultural workers being deferred at the rate of 6,500 a
day	297
Blanket deferment of any group strictly prohibited
(Director of Selective Service)	46
Classes II-A and II-B cover occupational deferments	463
Draft deferments of agricultural workers liberalized'	102
Employers requested to file draft form with local board	515
Essential activities	197
Essential activities itemized by WMC	360
Farm workers between 18 and 37 to be deferred to the number
of about 3»000,000 by end of the year (President Roosevelt) 35$
Fathers may be granted deferment priorities	332
Men of draft age in 65 occupations must seek war work or be
classed in 1-A after April 1	173
Merchant seamen get deferred status	211
More jobs listed as essential to news	152
“Necessary men” defined by WMC	55
New draft order changes system of dependency deferments	414
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No military deferments for dependency except in agriculture or hardship..................................................... 439
Occupational deferments limited to 6 months for non-fsthers . .	627
President sets up deferment system which determines status of all Government men.............................................. 3^9
Reclassification of nondeferrables begun	381
Senate acts to aid farmers’ deferment	332
Who goes in the armed forces (chert)	485
Dehydrated soups now unrationed	481
Dehydration: Vegetable dehydration capacity expected to be
increased by 200,000,000 pounds annually	248
Dehydrator production to reach 100,000 before September 1	670
Dental equipment placed under rigid control by WPB	1Ô4
Dependency :
New draft order changes system of dependency deferments	414
No militaiy deferments for dependency except in agriculture and hardship	439
Soldiers’ dependents getting benefits	103
Status clarified by Selective Service	297
Detroit: Turning out more combat munitions than any other industrial area in the world	133
Die castings—inspection and certification	172
Dies Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities continued for two years	168
Disney cartoons: “Food for Thought”	139
Dispatches to be carried hy Boy Scouts	679
Doctors enough if distributed properly (OWI)	3^0
Dogs in action under the Army’s K-9 Command	161
Dollar-a-year men rejected by Agriculture Secretary Wickard	120
Drinking in Anny not excessive, OWI survey shows	5
Dunkirk: Cartoon: “Who Would Have Thought This Stuff Would
Ever Be Useful To Us“	401
Durable goods:
Price adjustment made	457
Rulings of CPA will aid manufacturers	443
E
Economic policy: Seven points of our national economic policy 353 Economic stabilization:
Entire nation covered by stabilization plans	5^6
Interpretation of Executive Order of April 8—the “hold-the-line” order	5^7
Program expected to prevent another post-war depression	353
Protection of future prosperity of American workersjin all
fields	228
Stabilization announced as a fact (Economic Stabilization Director Byrnes)	203
Economic warfare:
Board of Economic Warfare corrals Axis goods and diverts them to United Nations	134
Board of Economic Warfare marshals economic power for “war behind the war”	5^8
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Economic warfare, continued:
Germany’s production peak past, Japan stronger in materials, but weaker in shipping ..........................................  6
Education:
Army and Navy announce first list of 281 colleges for special training.......................................................162-3
Army and Navy announce new list of colleges for special training........................................................ 224
Anny and Navy to test educational gains	181
Army explains plan of college training	101
Colleges faced with teacher shortage	84
College trainees to become cadets	3^1
Five more colleges given approval for Army-Navy training	381
Fourth list of approved colleges for war training announced 286 “Physical Fitness” for high schools	27
Price formula fixed for school supplies	110
Program designed to increase workers’ skill	284
Program to mobilize youth for war stresses health and education 180 School to train OWI foreign workers	287
Schools provided for evacuee children	68j
“Star” units formed at 18 colleges	463
Students from other Americas assisted	13
Teacher shortage in rural schools to be averted by six-point
program of WC committee	678
Three colleges added to list eligible for war training programs	414
Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. Dwight: Commander in Chief of entire
African theater	166
Employment:
Acute labor shortages	in	35	war	industrial	areas	462
Canning industry will	require	400,000	workers	545
Civil Service Commission lists new positions. See Civil
Service Commission.
Farm employment falls 2 percent below .average of June 1942	671
Farm workers in January 1941-2-3	241
Federal employment February 1941 to February 1943	466
Hiring of alien workers urged by WMC Chairman McNutt	437
Integration of all employment procurement agencies with U.S.
Employment Service studied by WMC Management-Labor Policy
Committee	15
Labor program holds workers in essential	jobs in 3? areas	174
Labor turnover	still a problem	53
Labor turnover	hits storage industiy	216
Labor turnover	1940-42	241
Many causes for job absenteeism—Government agencies tiy to
find answer	214
Metal products	industries, employment	by	sex	3$$
More women needed in industry, OWI manpower survey indicates 55$ Negro employment shows slow but steady increase	651
Office machine operators—5,000 needed in 1943	79
Shipbuilding industry needs 200,000 workers for replacements 412 Skilled worker shortage hampers industry	107
United States Employment Service places right worker in
right job	I53
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Employment, continued:
United States Employment Service puts the right man in the right job, in the right place, at the right time (cartoon by Coakley)........................................................ 243
Women in U.S. industry December 1940 to April 194-3 (chart) . . .	557
Women workers to number 6,000,000 by end of this year (WMC
Chairman McNutt) . ..................................................   54
Women, young people, and farm workers from Jamaica recruited for land army	4o6
England (see also Britain): Lend-lease aid received by U.S.	328
Entertainment for troops abroad: Five entertainers killed and four seriously injured last year	’	424
Expenditures:
April war expenditures reached $7»290,000,000	593
Comparison of June 1941 with November 1942	18
Comparison of 1917-18 and the present program	33$
Cumulative from June 1940	241
Monthly and daily war expenditures March 1941 to March 1943	440
Spent and unspent funds in the war program to December 31»
1942	91
Total military bill for the war of 1914-18 was only
$31»000,000,000, but appropriations and authorizations since
July 1940 already total about $240,000,000,000	377
War expenditures by the U.S. in 1942 totaled $52,406,000,000	72
War expenditures in March were at rate of $84,000,000,000 a
year	429
War expenditures	from	June	1940	177
War expenditures	June	1941	to	January 1943	210
War expenditures	June	1941	to	November	1942	47
War expenditures	June	1940	to	November	1942	125
War expenditures through 1943 and estimated savings by price control	143
War expenditures January and February 1943	3^2
War facilities program cost $19»339»000»000	654
War program expenditures 1940-43 (chart)	617
War-purpose expenditures for February reached a new high of $253,400,000 daily	334
War expenditures in March 1943 $7,112,000,000, with daily average of $263»400,000	5^3
War spending now at the rate of $6,000,000,000 a month	377
War to cost $100,000,000,000 during	coming fiscal year	476
Exports:
Advance scheduling outlined by Board of Economic Warfare	310
Lend-lease exports in relation to supply (chart)	100
Operations of BEW in “war behind the war“	5^
Shipping changes affect exporters	6O3
Shoe exporters must get special license	482
Eye safety campaign launched	3^5
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Facilities Bureau set up in WPB with 10 functions......................... 600
Fair Employment Practice Committee:
Discrimination against Negroes on rail lines requested stopped ........................................................ 107
President requests review of the Committee and its needs . . .	167
Strengthening of the Committee requested by the President . .	174
Famine and pestilence in Warsaw, typical conquered city	193, 196
Farm credit facilities listed by Department of Agriculture	643
Farm equipment made available to aid in increasing production
of needed foods	67O
Fara labor:
Plans made to meet shortage	337
Program set-up announced	486
Recruited from city folk and school children	150
Supply sufficient to meet goals, Chester C. Davis finds	506
Fara land values increase sharply	43O
Farm machinery:
Program emphasizes output of harvesting equipment	633
Quotas for production of repair parts raised from 130 percent
of sales to 160 percent	138
Rationing order cuts delay in using equipment	507
Fara prices reached parity in November 194-2 for the first time
in 20 years	353
Fara radio shortage may be relieved by rescheduling	363
Fara Security Administration farmers produce one-third of 1942
milk increase	178
Fara workers 18 to 37 io be deferred, President says	358
Farm workers recruited for the land army	406
Farmer-borrowers—100,000 of them—repaid loans in full in 1942	3^9
Fanners assured gas needed for production of crops	117
Fanners compete in logging contest in northeast States	274
Farmers: Meat rationing rules amended to give farmers more
f reedom	528
Fats:
Collections up 15 percent in February	423
Ejqpansion of oil production planned	3^9
Germany salvaged and smuggled fats by various methods and tricks	228
Glycerine production periled by failure to save fats	206
Housewives urged to continue turning in waste fats	410
Importance of edible oils emphasized by new orders ’	486
Increase in salvage of fats for war	520
More kitchen fats needed	28
Needed as war materials	151
Rationed March 29	3^5
Rationing point values set	329
Salvage campaign resulted in 5>000»000 pounds of waste fats
in December	232
Salvage of fats in January up	900,000 pounds	364
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
Asks cooperation against saboteurs	509
Thirteen thousand aliens arrested since U.S. entry into war 532
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Federal employment February 1941 to February 1943 . .................. 466
Federal Government employment January 1941 to January 1943 • • •	3^2
Fertilizer:
Corn fertilizer directive issued to prevent discrimination against competing crops .....................................   431
New Victory Garden fertilizer announced	69
Fiber:
Government wants to buy manila rope from business concerns	211
Sisal experiments conducted by WPB	459
Finances:
Bond sales and national debt May 1941 to January 1943	210
Expenditures, bond sales, debt, etc.	440
February income payments to individuals was $10,428,000,000	403
Miscellaneous data on financial program and commitments of various agencies	18
New War Loan Drive must enlist support of general public	403
Prices, expenditures, cost of living, etc.	488
Program—commitments—expenditures June 30» 1941, to
February 28, 1943	338
Second War Loan subscriptions exceed Liberty Loan drives	476
Second War Loan Drive raised-$18,500,000,000	5^9
Treasury favors collection of taxes at income source	88
Victory Loan Campaign in April seeks to top $13,000,000,000	197
War facilities program cost $19»339»000»000	654
War Facts on expenditures, bond sales, debt, etc.	5^0
War facts (chart)	634
War Program—commitments, expenditures	91
Fire guards recruited to fight incendiary bomb action	616
’’Firepower,’’ Army-Navy magazine	5^9
Fire prevention aid requested by OCD for eastern seaboard
States	420
Fire protection: Where there’s snoke, there’s—carelessness (cartoon by Coakley)	169
Fires: Forest fires greatly	hinder war production	266
Fish:
Canned fish supply fairly divided	393
Seafood sources developed	559
Shortage of fish increases demand for new varieties, including shark steaks	3^6
Fish, canned:
Rationed March 29 with meat, cheese, butter, fats, etc.	3^5
Rationing point values set	329
Fishing equipment to be returned by the Amy in time for seasonal operations	181
Flag Day:
Honors United Nations, emphasizing teamwork	573
World-wide celebrations to honor flags of all United Nations 599
Flight strips save planes from crashes	115
Floods: Credit resources ready to aid farm families of flood areas	608
Florida Barge Canal appropriation disapproved by House	3^0
Flynn, Edward J.: Nomination as Minister to Australia recalled 135
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Food Distribution Administration purchases for wartime purposes lower in November than October..................................... 56
Food program in Britain aided by prewar nutrition research ....	5^1
Foods:
Agricultural production plans	406
American food for war	69
Anglo-American food, production is	highly coordinated	330
Army meals carefully planned to provide maximum energy	472
Boarding houses, clubs, tourist camps must file prices of
foods served	491
Canning season	will	require	400,000 workers	545
Crop prospects in May less promising than in any of last three
years	624
Dehydrated soups	now	unrationed	481
Dehydration of vegetables expected to be increased by 200,000,000 pounds annually	248
Demand for all the foods the farmers of America can produce	3^5
Economists tell homemakers about best values	262
Equipment assured food packers	212
Exports of foods to the United Kingdom and to Soviet Russia
have been important aids	67
Five-year food program prepared to increase supply of
critical foods	3^9
Fresh foods may be hard to find—planting of gardens
recommended	257
Gasoline shortage brings crisis in food production in
Northeast	659
Germany takes food	supplies from occupied countries	426
Grade labeling of 19^3 pack of canned fruits and vegetables
to be required	261
Home-growing and home-canning of	food	3^1
Housewives can contribute to war effort by working in local
processing plants	575
Importance of food emphasized by Agriculture Department and
VMC	383
Increased production of foods by loans and Victory Gardens
is Wickard’s aim	121
Industrial food users affected	by	orders	3^
Inter-Agency Food Procurement	Committee created	200
Lend-lease food exports in relation to supply (chart)	100
Lend-lease foodstuffs largest item in May 1943 transfers	669
Lend-lease reveals shipments of food for four months of
1943	•	599
^Lend-lease shipments in January and February	357
Morale improved by adequate lunch service	4^2
Newly rationed foods listed by QPA	3^6
Official table of point values for processed foods	366
Point changes on processed foods	607
Point values of processed foods	235
President creates food agency, with Chester C. Davis as
administrator	35$
Production and distribution, will be coordinated	69
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Foods, continued:
Production increase aided by availability of needed equipment for farmers................................................ . • .	67O
Rationing is impartial................................................   51
Rationing of flow of food transferred from Agriculture to QPA .	247
Rationing of processed foods begun March 1
Rationing problems cleared up by specific answers to consumer
questions	410
Report of OWI on food supplies predicts inconveniences	425
Service men get cream of energy producing foods	165
Seven basic foods to be eaten every day	359
Shipping shortage brings pinch of hunger to some latin-American
countries	164
Supplies to be about what they were in the last half of the
1930’s	4
Support prices for war foo4OO bituminous coal companies 475
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Illustrations (see also Cartoons): Lend-lease tanks, guns, food, munitions, etc. ....... ......................................... 80-82
Imports:
Operations of BEW in “war behind the war“...............................  508
Shipping changes affect importers	603
Income: Individual incomes gain two-thirds or more in more than half the States ,	646-7
Income taxes of military personnel deferred without interest up to six months after termination of military service	111
India:
Assistance to Allies speeds victory in Africa	594
Lend-lease enables India to help itself	283
Indices of American industrial effort 47, 91, 125» 146, 177» 322, 338
Industry advisory committees	I38, 171, 213, 246
Industry and labor have accepted wage stabilization (NWLB
Chairman Davis)
Industry: Concentration of industry study a “dead pigeon“	441
Inflation:
Antiinflation line being held better than in last war '	354
Bond drives to meet threat of inflation	589
Brakes put on cost of living by wage price relationship	228
Cartoon	531
Cartoon, “If we could only get him on the absentee list“	551
Drive against inflation set pattern for new war effort	195
Effect of inflation in Germany and other countries after the
war	354
Henderson warns of inflation in final report to Congress	109
How to prevent disaster of inflation told in booklet	90
“Inflationary spiral“ process is like a tornado	232
President Roosevelt tells agencies to “hold the line“ against
upward spiral of prices	4o4
Reckless spending (cartoon by Leo)	647
Rent control checks inflation	21
Scarcity of civilian goods is potential cause of inflation	245
Threat of inflation averted by firn stand on wages and prices 201
War Bond investments help check inflation	428
Information: War Production Board aids businessmen in finding
their way about Washington, and in solving their war production problems	220
Inspection and certification of die castings	172
Insurance:
Army men urged to take out insurance before they go overseas 320
Cargo insurance rules eased for shippers	151
Companies and brokers warned by Attorney General Biddle that information sent abroad injures the United States	77
Inter-American relations (see also Foreign Relations):
Agreements with other republics promote hemisphere trade	352
Latin editors praise President Roosevelt's address on the State of the Union	128
Overland transport to Central America expected in fall of 1943	265
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| Inter-American relations, continued:
Rio Conference program benefits people of both continents . . .	130
War fronts in Latin America.............................................. 13
International Labor Office: Post-war planning of reconstruction on sound basis	85
I Inventories:
Coffee dealers must furnish inventories	20
Controlled Materials Plan Regulation 2 provides controls over manufacturers’ inventories of aluminum, copper, and steel	73
Meats-fats inventory to be based on sales week of April 25 to
May 1 x	. 455
Nation’s steel inventories kept up to date	331
Rationing rules changed	502
Retailers* allowable inventories defined	204
Investigations:
Resolutions for several investigations introduced in Senate and House	39
Rules Committee of Congress approves resolutions for several new investigations	of departments	and agencies	168
Iron and steel:
Januaiy scrap almost	fills quota	3^3
Ore movement on Great Lakes lags behind schedule	620
Salvage collections of iron and steel were 97-7 percent of the national quota	290
Italians in newly conquered territory provide problems for
American military officials	522
Italy:
Economically, Italy is not an asset to the Axis	6
Systematically bombed	571
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Jamaica: Agricultural workers recruited from Jamaica	4o6
Japan:
Claims sinking of the aircraft carrier Hornet was revenge for the Tokyo raid	78
Execution of U.S. fliers denounced by President Roosevelt	450
Gets jitters from United Nations broadcasts (OWI Director Davis)	77
Loses 3^4 planes in three months as compared with 5^ Army planes shot down	379
Stronger in materials	in 1943» but weaker in shipping	6
Japanese:
Loyal Japanese told how they may enter U.S. Army	198
Surprised by American attack on Attu Island	547
Troop casualties in or on way to Guadalcanal estimated at 30,000 to 50,000	202
Japanese-Americans in U.S. Army to form combat team	135» 1^7
Japanese-Americans removed from west coast areas number 110,000	676
Japanese-Americans taking farm jobs	677
”Japanese Relocation”—new OWI motion picture	186
Jews: Senate unanimously approves resolution condemning
Germany’s slaughter of ’’more than 2,000,000 Jews”	307
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Labor:
Attacks causes of absenteeism	361
Chaotic wage condition in West Coast aircraft industiy under study	271
Draft of labor likely in 1944 (WMC Chairman McNutt)	84
Employers granted right to increase wage rates (WPB)	339
Fam employment 2 percent below average of June 1942	671
Four million women in labor reserves	188
Job transfers of essential workers to be stopped by WMC	436
Manpower Regional Directors should consult unions	626
National War Labor Board reaffirms wage policy and upholds
Little Steel formula	367
New program holds workers in essential jobs in 32 areas	174
No further general wage increases beyond the “Little Steel”
fomula, except to correct gross inequities	353
Participation in local price, rationing and rent-control
activities	442
President hopes to delay labor draft as long as possible	333
Reaffirms no-strike pledge	666
Regional labor aides named by WPB to deal with war production problems	85
Regional labor boards are set up	in	12 cities	119
Stabilization in auto plants	26
Stabilization plans for entire	nation	526.
Turnover in all manufacturing industries February 1941 to
February 1943	440
Turnover reduction expected as result of no-transfer order	462
Turnover threatens shipbuilding goal	412
Uniform work and wage policy asked for automotive industry
by Walter P. Reuther	108
Wage adjustment procedures revised to speed settlements	3^
War Labor Board proposes to interpret stabilization order
strictly	434
War labor Board strengthens wage stabilization program	4O5
Labor disputes:
AFL charges violation of labor rights by Executive Order 9328	434
Antistrike bill passed by both houses of Congress	625
Appointment of new regional labor boards announced	216
Bituminous coal case summarized	59$» 613
Coal miners* portal-pay demands refused by War Labor Board	655
Coal miners return to work after Government seizure of mines 473 Coal miners return to work in Government-managed, mines	597
Coal miners urged by WLB to go back to work	4^9
Coal miners’ weekly earnings found lower than those in other
war industries	548
Coal production loss through strikes	619
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Commission established by NWLB to settle all labor disputes in the shipbuilding industry .......................................... gu	>
Congress overrides President’s veto of antistrike bill ....	665
Detroit strike condemned by WLB..........................................  2b
Equal pay for equal work ordered for Coast air plants	298
Industry and labor have accepted wage stabilization (NWLB
Chairman Davis)	^15
John L, Lewis, defies law, challenges U.S. sovereignty, aids
enemy, WLB says	527
Man-days lost on strikes affecting war production 18, 47, 91,-125, .	210, 241, 322, 338, 488
Miners’ demands for $2-a^day wage increase denied by NWLB	572
National Railway Labor Panel receives jurisdiction over rail
wage and salary disputes	175
National War Labor Board intends to take jurisdiction of all
labor disputes not settled by other peaceful procedures	386
President Roosevelt requests continued operation of mines	356
Restrictions in Executive Order 9328 held to hamper NWLB’s
power to rule equitably in wage disputes	515
Should be settled by collective bargaining	233
Strike in Pennsylvania anthracite mines has cost Eastern
States about a million tons of hard coal	gj
Strikes against Government-held plants outlawed in Connally
bill	4gg
Strikes in war plants at low level	173
Labor—management production committees speed war production	349
Labor shortage:
Engineer shortages threaten in many manufacturing plants	651
More women needed in industry, OWI Manpower survey indicates 556 Recruiting of labor to aid farmers and canners begun	199
Labor supply:
Agricultural labor will be recruited	122
City folk and school children to be recruited for land army	I50
Communities added to list of shortage areas	337
Many causes for job absenteeism—Government agencies try to
find answer	214
Shortage of skilled workers serious	I32
Labor training:
Apprentice training pamphlets	issued	315
Education program designed to	increase workers’ skill	284
Program to mobilize youth for war stresses health and
education	IgO
Skilled worker shortage serious	I32
War Manpower Commission to train 10,000,000 workers for war
industry and agriculture	679
Labor turnover hits storage industry	216
Labor turnover 1940-42	241
Labor turnover still a problem	18, 53
Lard: Supply in 1943 expected to total 1,850,000,000 pounds 247-248
Laundries: Army laundries on the battle front	67
Law enforcement (see also Black markets; Compliance):
Black market hit by indictments
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Court decisions favorable to OPA in 96 percent of cases ....	609 1
Jail sentences imposed on black market operators .... ...	357 I
Nation-wide drive to end black-market sales of poultry	453
Penalties for violation of Stabilization Act	436
Poultry black market operations bring 229 court actions	55$
Violations of WPB regulations, penalties, etc.	209
Violators of WPB regulations penalized	269
Leather: More leather products may be produced	632
Legislation (see also Congress):
Death penalty for hostile acts against the United. States	38O
Uniform laws urged to end traffic barriers	275
Lend-lease:
Aid to Allies from March 1941 to January 31» 1943» $$»935»$$$»$$$ in goods and services	307
Aid to China, Russia, India, etc.	25Ó
Aid to Saudi Arabia authorized	450
Aid to United Nations passes $10,000,000,000	496
America benefits with the other United Nations	65-7
Australia provides for U.S. wounded under reciprocal lend-
lease	594
Britain received large percentage in 1942	211
China receiving as much material by plane as ever traveled
over the Burma Road, President said in message to Congress 3$ Congress votes almost unanimously to extend the Lend-lease Act
one year	3O7
Cumulative value of aid given our Allies from March 11, 1941
to December 31, 1942, was $8,253,000,000	131
Export report covers four months of 1943 food shipments	599
Food exports in relation to supply (chart)	100
Food shipments to Russia expected to be larger than lend-lease
food deliveries to all other parts of the world combined	165
French North Africa receives '5$»$$$ tons of food and other
non-military supplies	179
Helped make Britain safe base for African offensive	143
India enabled to help itself	283
Liberia added to list of Lend-lease nations* at request of
President Roosevelt	70
May 1943 total $790,000,000	669
Military and lend-lease needs expected to take 25 percent of
1943 food production	439
Military supplies worth $75,$$$»$$$ transferred to General
Giraud	580
Oil.supplies to be adequate for lend-lease and armed services 486 Our Allies give as well as take under lend-lease	99-10$
Plane and tank exports in	relation to production (chart)	58O
Promises to our Allies are fulfilled	66—7
Report on two months of lend-lease food shipments	357
Report on two years of lend-lease operations (Administrator
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.)	328
Reverse lend-lease brought us more beef in 1942 than we sent to Allies	328
Rise in food shipments expected	for 1943	496
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Senate committee votes to extend lend-lease one year ......	277
Shipments to North Africa by June 3$ expected to reach value of
$50,000,000 . . . ............................................. 444
Total lend-lease »id to April 3$> 19^3 (chart)................... 581
Letters from home influence morale of soldiers	592
Lewis, John L. (UMW):
Accuses WLB of “prejudging” bituminous coal labor dispute	596
Defies law, challenges U.S. sovereignty, aids enemy, WLB says	527
Telegram from President Roosevelt on coal strike	^73
Liberia added to the list of Lend-lease nations at request of
President Roosevelt	70
Liberty Ship construction time reduced three-fourths	122
License plates for 194-2 to be reissued in 41 States	20
Liquor price evasions curtailed by OPA	609
Liquor rationing not necessary	433
“Little Steel“: No further general wage increases beyond the
“Little Steel“ formula, except to correct gross inequities	353
Livestock slaughter changes announced	577
Loans:
Broad loan policy for increased food production	121
Corn, cotton and wheat loans of Commodity Credit Corporation
on 1942 crops reported	506
Farmer-borrowers—more than 100,000—repaid loans in 1942	319
Rural Electrification loan funds to 26 systems in 18 States	60S
Second War Loan Drive must enlist support of general public	403
Second War Loan Drive opened April 12 to'raise $13,000,000,000	377
Second War Loan subscriptions exceed Liberty Loan drives	476
Soybean and flaxseed production programs supported by loans 296 Logging contest for farmers in northeast States '	274
Logistics: Defined as embracing details of army transport and
supply	661
Lumber:
All western lumber goes to military	511
Production of lumber almost meets goals	600
Requirements for 1943 estimated by WPB	335
Lunch service for workers helps,maintain production	452
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McNutt, Paul V. (Chairman Manpower Commission):
Right man for right job, 1943 slogan	1
Says labor draft likely in 1944	g4
Machine tools:
Expansion of capital equipment and tools halted by WPB	524
Priorities changed	10
Machinery:
Farm equipment increase ordered by WPB Chairman Nelson	106
Farm machinery exports	406
Farm machinery rationing order cuts delay in using equipment 507 Farm machinery released from freezing order	121
Farm output records warrant more labor and machinery	577
Fanners must pay particular attention to sharing and
repairing machinery	487
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Fanners to -get necessary machinery.............................. 3U5
Plastics molding machinery allocated  ........................... 172
Rural workers choose courses in machinery.......................  678
Shipments drop slightly	391
Utilization of used "building machinery saves 120,000 tons of raw materials	563
Wider use of custom-operated harvesting machinery	657
Magnesia deposits found in	Alaska	396
Mail for seamen	^29
Mail for soldiers governed	by new	rules	45
Manpower:
Absenteeism attacked by WMC and WPB	291
Acute labor shortages in 35 industrial areas	462
Agricultural labor will be recruited by Department of
Agriculture for war production on farms	122
Appeals of workers and employers provided for by new regulation of WMC	574
Armed forces need 11,000,000 by 1944 (Commissioner McNutt)	627
Army to draw doctors, dentists, and veterinarians in large
numbers from civilian practice in 1943	315
Democratic process used in recruiting manpower for wartime jobs	132
Detroit has manpower problem	133
Eating facilities in plants help	in reducing absenteeism	626
Employment by sex, labor management committees, Federal
employment, etc.	466
Engineers to transfer to essential jobs	6^1
Job control needed to avoid “manpower famine”	4
Job transfers of essential workers to be stopped by MIC	436
Labor force, employed and unemployed 1941-43	2h1
Labor plentiful in 85 industrial areas	14
Labor turnover threatens-shipbuilding goal	412
Men of draft age in 65 occupations must seek war work or be classed in 1-A after April 1	173
Procedure for hiring aliens shortened, simplified	601
Record increase in women workers expected to continue this
year	574
Regional consultants will act as troubleshooters	3^2
Right man for right job is the 1943 slogan	1
Selective service program recruits dairy workers	3^2
Skilled worker shortage hampers industry	107, 1C8
Staggered hours for war workers recommended by WMC Chairman
McNutt	337
Steel mills on 48-hour week under manpower order—drafting workers unnecessary	510
Systematic planning important in reducing plant	ansences	526
Transportation and warehousing labor shortage	^12
Transportation manpower shortage a major problem	this	year	460
Unemployment, labor turnover, employment by sex, Federal
employment, etc.	3^2
United Nations* forces and equipment compared with that of Axis nations
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Value of sound worker nutrition proved by British experience . b8b-
Women to be enrolled for war work on voluntary basis for local needs....................................................   8b
Young workers in food processing will have legal protection .	65O
manufacturers warned to send in their applications under the
Controlled Materials Plan	96
(Maps: Military photographs worked into maps	685
[Maritime Commission reports on 19^2 shipbuilding record (Chairman
Land)	bO
Matches: Reduction in length of matches expected to save public $2,000,000 a year	b08
Materials:
Controlled Materials Plan allotments include 17,000,000 tons
of steel, 600,000 tons of copper, and JOO,000 tons of
aluminum	171
Substitutes used to save vital metals	b67
Success of Material^Board shows way to post-war settlement	259
Maternity care for wives of service men and care for their
infants will be available shortly throughout the Nation	Jj6
Meats:
Beef and lamb retail ceiling prices will be lower than scheduled	bj7
Black market hit by indictments	bll
Black market operations are a serious threat to war effort J88, 389
Black marketeers in meats are the new saboteurs	4JJ
Black market sales affect meat buying for military needs	b-81
Black markets seek sympathy	217
Civilian meat quotas set	359
Courts act to curb black market deals	357
Elimination of “squeeze“ in prices is expected to combat black markets	b08
Jail for meat racketeers urged by Price Administrator Brown	261
Lend-lease exports in relation to supply (chart)	100
Livestock slaughter changes announced	577
Point values for preferred cuts of beef increased	6O7
Price ceilings set for meat	b-99
Rationed beginning March 29	JOJ
Rationing point values set	3^9
Rationing rules amended	528
Retail price ceilings expected to strike heavy blow at black markets	29b-
Retail prices reduced 10 percent	673
Shortage areas aided by OPA	3J4
Shortage of meat supplies noted last fall
Slaughter permits now available	3^5
Soybeans good substitutes for meat in human diet	b§8
Subsidy roll-back program established for meat and butter	635
War Meat Board set up to handle meat supply	558
What happens to our meat supply	563
Meats-fats: Inventories to be based on sales week of April 25 to May 1	bj5
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Medicines wasted by black marketeers . ................................. 453
Mediterranean:
Ports heavily bombed in May 1943	595
Reopened to Allies, saving more than 5>000 for Allied ships en route to and from the East	523
Merchant marine:
Casualties to January 6, 1943	4^
Growth since 1923 (chart)	603
Merchant seamen are patriotic—deliver goods despite casualties 181 Merchant ship construction, January-December "1942	18
Mercury: Stock reports asked	632
Metals: Mining records broken in 1942	9
Metals and minerals supply coordinated	1/1
Mexico: President Roosevelt meets President Camacho at Monterrey 450 Microfilmed V-Mail letters set record in February—5 >990,570
transmitted	3&0
Military history being written by Historical Section of Army
War College	250
Milk:
Condensed milk rationed	60J
Dried skim milk allocated	608
Evaporated milk—additional 3,000,000 cases to be released
for civilian consumption before	March 31	173
Little milk available in greater part of occupied Europe	426
Prices of condensed milk go up	44
Quart-size containers only for home use after February 1	122
Transportation plan saves many man-days and more than a
hundred thousand truck-miles annually	25O
Minerals:
Mining records broken in 1942	9
Tin, mercury and magnesia deposits found in Alaska	396
Minerals and metals supply coordinated	171
Mining:
Coal miners—2,000—needed in West	108
Coal miners ordered to return to work in Government-managed mines	597
Continuous working of mines needed	434
Metals and minerals mining record broken in 1942	9
Safety report issued by Bureau of Mines	485
Mobilization, Office of War, established by President	569
Money: Secret Service moves to safeguard checks and money	509
Morale:
Food builds morale—adequate lunch service helps maintain production	452
Soldiers’ morale influenced by letters from home	592
Motion pictures:
Booklet, “War Films for War Use,“ describes 33 films	348
British film “Dover” released	I52
Bulletin describes war film uses	516
Canada at War, and other 0WI pictures	219
“Conquer by the Clock” and other 0WI pictures	32^-
“Divide and Conquer” and other 0WI films	89
Donald Duck, and other 0WI films	276
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Graphic first aid.................................................   468
“Henry Browne, Farmer” and other OWI pictures . .................... 123
“Japanese Relocation” and other OWI pictures now available . .	186
List of OWI films	29
Merchant marine film used in training	685
New war films	637
OWI catalog lists war	information	films	468
“Paratroops” and other	OWI	pictures	396
“Point Rationing of Food” and other OWI films	251
Survey of use of motion pictures in war plants	372
“The Price of Victory” and other OWI films	61
’’Troop Train,” “Aluminum,” etc.	444
United States News Review, and other films	492
U.S. News Review, and other OWI films	301
Municipalities asked by OCD to provide legal status for citizen protection under local councils	76
Munitions:
Output, aside from planes, to total $21,000,000,000 in 1943	654
Production in April was 7 percent above March	593
Production index from November 1941 to February 1943	338
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National debt May 1941 to January 1943	210
National debt in March 1943 $111,300,000,000	440
National debt in December 1942	91
•National debt limit raised by Congress to $210,000,000,000	356
National debt February 1943	338
National income:
Comparison of income payments 1940-41-42	146
February 1941 to February 1943	390
February income over $10,000,000,000	403
National Resources Planning Board:
Appropriations Committee denies funds to NRPB	201
Liquidation called for by Congress	642
National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel: List of 500,000 scientists and specialists cataloged	108
National War Labor Board:
Decentralized program launched	I85
Labor disputes not settled by other peaceful procedures to be taken over by Board	3$6
Reaffirms wage policy and upholds Little Steel formula	367
Naval College Training Program geared to the demands of war	3$2
Navy:
Appropriation of $29,463,687,19$ approved	534
Appropriation for construction of Naval facilities all over the world not to exceed $1,256,670,000	231
Army and Navy announce first list of 281 colleges for special training	162-3
Casualties December 7» 1941, to January	6, 1943	45
Hospital Corps accepting women	501
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Packaging methods improved to expedite delivery of war materials................................................    ,	217
Radar use described  .....................................................  5%
Renegotiation of contracts by War and Navy Departments saves
. $2,500,000,000	489
Secretary Knox returns from a three weeks’ trip to the South
Pacific	166
V-mail service expanding	206
Withholds ”E” awards from organizations failing to show a
good employee-attendance	record	}61
Nazi	philosophy excoriated by	Catholic Bishop of Berlin	97-92
Nazis:
Effects of ’’total mobilization” in various countries of
Europe summarized by OWI	372
In ’’talk offensive” claim to be bulwark against Russia	194
New Nazi mobilization to close 100,000 more retail shops	376
North Africa stripped of its resources and the people left hungry and ragged	444
Norwegian accomplishments cited on anniversary of Nazi invasion	402
Slave labor among Nazis described	355
Systematically loot banks in conquered lands (OWI)	544
Using threat of Bolshevism to create schism between England
and America (OWI Director Davis)	227
Negroes:
Book prepared by OWI on ’’Negroes and the War”	89
Employment of Negroes shows slow but steady increase	651
Employment in war industry plants increasing rapidly	3^1
Equal pay for equal work ordered by NWLB	618
Fair Employment Practice Committee requests that discrimination against Negroes on rail lines be stopped	107
Hotel for Negro war workers opened April 1	391
Liberty Ship named for Negro Scientist, Dr. George Washington
Carver	122
Low-rent housing—12 percent to be occupied by Negroes	465
Negro AFL carpenters join closed shop	9$
Percentage of Negroes in Navy to equal population proportion 4b3
Workers strike at the Packard Motor Company’s Detroit plant	597
Nelson, Donald M.: Plans greater labor role in WPB	177
New Guinea campaign has cost Japan 15,000 men (General MacArthur) 46
New Guinea campaign progress	136
New Zealand:
Contributes material aid under lend-lease plan	99
Food contributions to United Kingdom and American armed forces 33$
Newspaper printing and publishing advisory panel set up	271
Newsprint: Further curtailment of newsprint asked	562
Nickel: New five-cent piece contains no nickel	138
North Africa:
Allies tighten ring around Axis in Tunisia	451
Allies to get supplies of strategic raw materials from French
vNorth Africa	266
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American and British Armies move toward decision in Tunisia . •	"579
Battle for Tunisia moves toward climatic phase ........	427
Bizerte and Tunis fall to Allied forces .... ........................ 497
British public no better informed than Americans on Africa politics	103
Food supply possibilities great in Algeria and French Morocco 283
Lend-lease aid in foods and other nonmilitary supplies totals
more than 50»000 tons	179
More than 20,000 Axis prisoners taken in 12 days in Tunisia	4Ó1
Nazis stripped the land of its resources and left the people hungry and ragged	444
Victoiy demonstrates striking power of integrated force	523
Norway:
Effect of Nazi “total mobilization“	^78
Food supplies taken by Germany	426
Norwegian accomplishments cited on anniversary of Nazi invasion 402 Nurses:
Needed for Hawaii	58
Schools to speed nurse training program	15
Shortage for civilian care—65»GOO student nurses urgently
needed	483
Student nurse corps	proposal	submitted	224
Student-nurse trainees—65*000—needed to release others
for war duty	500
Nutrition:
Adequate lunch service	for	workers	helps maintain production	4^2
Army meals carefully planned to provide maximum energy	472
Community shows explain rationing, food production, balanced diet *	448
Eating facilities in plants help in reducing absenteeism	626
Economists tell homemakers about best values	262
Pre-war nutrition research aids British food program
United States menu still world’s best	282
Value of sound worker nutrition proved by British experience 484
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Occupied countries’ underground leaders giving Axis tremendous concern	6
Oil:
Consumption in 1942 far greater	than new discoveries	169
Corn oil use encouraged	558
Costs studied by Tariff Commission	148
East coast’s fuel oil situation improved by new regulations	102
Emergency fuel oil priorities set up	160
Emergency fuel oil procedure	149
Fuel oil banned for pleasure boats	238
Fuel oil coupons will be mailed	495
Fuel oil delivery made easier	82
Fuel oil slashed in 17 Eastern States	20
Fuel oil rations up	288
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Oil, continued
Fuel-oil users in New England assured coal ..............................  37
Homes without oil may get relief........................................  139
Industrial fuel oil ration reduced ...................................... 116
New price schedule	147
New tank car seen aid in oil drought	3^3
Pipeline deliveries into seaboard States now at all-time high 50 Production declining, bringing increase in use of gas and coal 567 Prompt action asked on oil applications	631
Reasons for rationing fuel oil	5$
Restrictions on oil allowed to expire	3^5
Seriousness of	shortage	653
Tank car deliveries of petroleum still below pre-flood
average	5^5
Transportation	to East	is	major	freight problem	560
Transportation to East to be increased by 100,000 barrels a
day to be shipped by	wooden barges	33^
Ordnance: Deliveries for April show large-increase over 1952	600
Organization changes:
Major changes in names and functions of two Agricultural
Research Administration bureaus	263
Reorganization of War Production Board	290
Smaller War Plants Division of WPB transferred to Smaller War
Plants Corporation	3^3
Oswego, N.Y., Flag Day celebration	599
Oysters: Canners permitted to pack oysters in metal cans until
April 30, 14+3	51
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Pan-American relations. (See Foreign relations; Inter-American relations. )
Pantelleria:
Bombarded heavily June 5 and 6, 1953	595
Surrender resulted from “continuous and intense air bombardment, supported by naval bombardment”	623
Paper:
Conservation program urged by WPB for schools and colleges	5^5
Output curbed by WPB order	3$
Publishers told of paper tonnage cuts	25
“Paratroops“-new moving picture	396
Patents:
Alien Property Custodian lists 18,000 enemy-owned patents for sale	11
Owners of patents seized by mistake aided in recovery of title 52 Peace: “War and Peace Aims“ pamphlet gives opinions of many
United Nations leaders	226
Pearl Harbor: German agents aided Japanese in preparing the way for the Japanese attack	622
Persecution of Catholic priests and Protestant clergy in Warsaw 196
Pet food: Protein cut	150
Physicians:
Enough doctors now if distributed properly (OWI)	360
Relocation of 600 doctors	3^2
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Oil moving in 2U-inch war emergency pipeline at Longview, Texas .	45
Second pipeline to be started in March..............................  137
War emergency pipeline from Illinois to East making good progress .......................................................  Jg4
Plane casualties in North Africa	427
Plane spotters can get new cars	102
Plant expansion, commitments and completions, 1942	177
Plant-seizure bill approved	53U
Plastics:
Molding machinery allocated	172
Prices fixed by OPA	109
Pleasure Driving ban in effect in East to insure gas for use in farm tractors	333
Pleasure driving banned in	east shortage area	50
Pleasure driving ban proved effective—now on honor basis	288
Pleasure driving in taxicabs criticized by ODT Director Eastman 57
Point rationing explained in questions and answers	19
Point rationing values announced by Price Administrator Brown 234-235
Point rations are fair	11g
Poland: Effects of Nazi “total mobilization”	37g
Poland’s capital, Warsaw, reduced to beggary and starvation, as described in OWI pamphlet	193, 196
Politics: British public no better informed than Americans on
Africa politics	103
Pork:
Prices adjusted by OPA	69
Slaughter of hogs under Federal inspection in February 1943
was 30 percent below that	expected	388
Postal service: New rules govern soldiers’ mail	45
Posters available upon request to Division of Public Inquiries,
OWI, Washington, I). C.	10$, 324, 372, 468
Post-war planning:
Conference on post-war food supplies planned	267
Construction cited as source of employment after the war	311
Conversion of military planes to air transport	6O5
Four Senators ask U.S. to call meeting to lorm Allied Council 332
Housing program will aid employment	363
Inflation prevention	334
Need of planning post-war reconstruction seen by acting
director of International labor Office	$5
President refers, in his message, to the need of planning now for the post-war problems	3g
President sends Congress plan for transition from war to peace economy	30g
Public construction project plans	asked	404
Stabilization program expected to prevent another post-war depression	353
Success of Materials	Board	shows	way	to post-war settlement	259
Thoughts of seven United Nations leaders published by OWI in new pamphlet	3^3
“War and Peace Aims” pamphlet gives opinions of many United Nations leaders	226
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Potato shipments from South improve supply situation..................... 55$
Seed potato rules revised by OPA......................................... 407
White potato market- investigated........................................  5^
Poultry:
Black market operations bring 229 court actions	550
Illegal sales attacked by OPA	453
Power:
Earnings of U.S. power plants grow	45
Hydroelectric plants aid fuel situation	663
Plants increase power for the West	420
Power Director named by WPB Chairman Nelson	104
Rural Electrification Administration report shows growth of
electric systems	263
War time continuance urged—saved 1,500>000»000 kilowatt hours last year	284
Predictions on “What 1943 Holds in Store for the Civilian
Population” by nine Government officials	3
President Roosevelt:
Advises Italian people to overthrow Fascist leaders	622
Announces “complete agreement on future operations in all theaters of the war”	570
Antistrike bill veto overridden by Congress	666
Approves report of War Relief Control Board	88
Approves use of troops on farms	267
Asks Congress for 100 percent tex on high incomes	229
Asks Congress to pass legislation permitting Puerto Ricans to
elect their own governor	3O8
Assures Mme, Chiang Kai-shek U.S. will give more aid to China 229 Called for quick end of mine workers walkout	475
Calls for war budget of $100,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1944	70
Commends Norwegian resistance to Nasi domination	402
Condemns leaders of United Mine Workers	667
Confers with Chinese Foreign Minister T. V, Soong	59$
Confers with Churchill at the White House	53^
Congratulates generals on crushing of Axis in Tunisia	5^5
Continues conferences with Prime Minister Churchill	565
Denounces Japanese execution of U.S. fliers	45O
Endorses world peace ideals; hopes to delay labor draft as
long as possible	333
Gives to 0WI the propaganda activities of the Office of
Strategic Services	3O8
Opens Red Cross drive for $125,000,000	259, 267
Opens War Bond Drive with sale of first bond to White House
Messenger	4o4
Opposes food “czar” plan	666
Orders program to cut mileage of Federal motor vehicles 40 percent	286
Orders seizure of coal mines by Government	473
Orders United Mine Workers back to work	613
Outlines road to victory in Congress message	38
Pays tribute to U.S. merchant seamen for keeping vital supply
lines open	565
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' Pledges inarch through Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo........................... 201
Rejects idea of putting control of food under one “czar” • . .	659
Reports United Nations outproduce Axis.................................... 58I
Requests continued operation of mines	356
Requests review of Fair Employment Practice Committee, approves
Nisei Combat Team, etc.	167
Bequests strengthening of Fair Employment Practice Committee 174 Returns to Washington from Casablanca “unconditional surrender”
conference	I35
Sends Congress plan for expanded social security and for
transition from	war	to	peace	economy	708
Sends ultimatum	to	striking United Mine Workers	449
Tells agencies to “hold the line” against upward spiral of
prices	404
Vetoes Bankhead bill, outlines manpower plan, and says United Nations”are about 95 percent together“	3^0
Press releases obtainable at U.S. Information Center, 1400
Pennsylvania Avenue NW.	221
Price adjustments during past week	149
Price-boosting practices curbed by OPA	321
Price control:
Savings on munitions and war construction through price
control during 1947 estimated at $7-»000»000,000	143
■ Savings to farmers through price control (chart)	179
Prices:
Beef and lamb retail ceilings will be lower than scheduled	457
Boarding houses, clubs, and tourist camps must file prices of
foods served	491
Brakes put on cost of living by wage-price relationship	228
Ceiling prices on butter and clothing	215
Community ceiling prices for family market-basket foods
, established	499
Community program clarified—127 market areas to be defined 53$ Corn prices frozen	75
See also Correction.
Cost of living, income, etc.	(War Facts)	682
Cost of living to be rolled back by four-pdint program of OPA 474 Cotton piece goods, vacuum cleaners, Army materials, etc.	43
Cut in prices of steelcastings saves Government about
$50,000,000	239
Economic position of food dealers reported most favorable on record	55Q
Farm prices reached parity in November 1942 for the first time
in 20 years	353
Food price structure	strengthened	by	new OPA actions	768
Fresh vegetables, meats,	stoves,	etc.	442
Grade label plan withdrawn by OPA	550
Henderson, in final report to Congress, warns of inflation	109
How to keep your food bill down	673
Investigation of price ceilings in coal mining areas	473
Lead arsenate price cut order aids fruit growers	178
regulations for groceries and other foods amended by
OPA	J 6O9
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Maximum prices established for 1943 tomato pack.......................... 395
Miscellaneous products . . 21, 109, 1^7» 203, 291, 294, 320, 33^» 3^71 New price order grants relief to manufacturer whose company is
operating at a loss............................................ 310
Percentage of increase in wholesale prices 1941 to 19^3	270
Price control of health items	90
Price regulations to cover all cost-of-living items	408
Pricing procedures simplified—some ceilings eliminated	491
Railroad dining car meal prices limited	672
Regional price system set for alloy metals	649
Rents and prices to be held at levels of last mid-September 578 Retail prices of meats begin April 15	389
Retailers’ mark-ups established for seven fresh vegetables	442
Roll-back program established for meat and butter	635
Roll-back program of CPA eliminated by Congress	665
Scarcity of civilian goods is potential cause of inflation	2U5
Slow, well ordered rise in prices predicted by Price
Administrator Brown	102
“Squeezes” requiring frequent price adjustments	33
Standards reinforce price control, protect consumer (OPA
Administrator Brown)	649
Vegetables, meat, liquor	648
Women’s clothing prices unchanged	238
Yam buyers benefit from new rulings	I83
Printing machinery control tightened by WPB	40
Priorities:
Abstract of priorities actions	240, 292
Communications priorities ordered for radio and wire messages
bearing on national defense and security	124
Emergency fuel oil priorities set up	160
New War Production Board regulations	208
New WPB regulations	418
Priority system for gasoline set up in eastern area	606
Publication “Priorities” contains all unexpired priorities
orders, regulations, and reporting forms of the WPB	176
Wire and phone orders simplified	IQ
Prisoners of war:
Axis prisoners may be put on farms	178
Food packages delivered to American prisoners by Red Cross	28
Fourth Indian Division accounted for capture of 100,000 German
and Italian prisoners	594
List of commodities that may be sent in gift packages to
servicemen and civilians held by Axis '	251
More than 20,000 Axis prisoners taken in 12 days in Tunisia	401
Plans set up to send books to prisoners of war and civilian
internees in enemy-occupied countries	376
Procurement: Principles in awarding war contracts outlined by
Director of Procurement Policies of WPB	72
Production (see also Simplification):
Absenteeism attacked by management and labor	361
Aircraft, small arms ammunition, etc.	24
Aviation industry will exceed $20,000,000,000 this year	604
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Production, continued:
Bedsprings made without metals, small war plants given larger war orders, power director named, etc.........................  104
Bomber production at Willow Run plant expected to reach peak
within a year...................................................... 243
Campaign to produce 2,000,000 extra tons of steel................... 681
Coal production rises under U.S. management	548
I Controlled Materials Plan allotments made on schedule, with
full provision made for the '‘must1’ programs	171
Cotton yarn production increase reported for first quarter 632
Data on program progress during 1942	177
Deliveries of ordnance material in April show large increase
over April 1942	600
Detroit turning out more combat munitions than any other
industrial area in the world	133
Engineer gets Citation of Individual Production merit—
highest distinction a war worker can attain	246
Expansion of capital equipment and tools halted by WPB	52ft
Expenditures for arms reach a new high—index of munitions
production for three months ending with February up to 4-82	334
Facilities Bureau set up in WPB with 10 functions	600
Labor’s advice can improve methods and morale (WPB Chaimnan
Nelson)	137
Lunch service for workers helps maintain production	452
May be stepped up 20 percent this year	273
Merchant vessel tonnage delivered February 1940-1943	300
Munitions gain 14 percent in December, reaching a level
nearly five times that of November 1941	169
Munitions output, aside from planes, to total $21,000,000,000
in 1943	654
Munitions production gains 7 percent in April over March	593
Munitions production in November	beats	all	records	8
Munitions program progress	722
Munitions, war construction,	merchant	vessels,	etc.	18
’’Must programs” are rubber, naval escort vessels, 100 octane
gasoline, merchant ships, and airplanes (WPB Chairman
Nelson)	j7Q
Oil production declining	'	4b7
Output of equipment for ground and air forces 35$ percent
of same month last year	291
Peak months of production ahead (WPB Chai man Nelson)	72
Plane output increased, shipbuilding record up	517
Profits continue to rise despite taxes	64b
Questionnaire, revised form, sent to 15,000 firms	441
Referred to by President in message to Congress as a miracle 38 Shipbuilding in 1942 shattered all records (Admiral Emory S.
Land, Chairman Maritime Commission)	40
Shipbuilding industry breaks all records in May 1943 by
delivering 175 new ships	602
Shipbuilding records broken, plane goal of 100,000
warplanes in 1943, etc.	U00
Ship construction records broken in February	281
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Production, continued:
Small manufacturers-1-58 percent in war production........................ 5^9	■
Smaller War Plants Corporation asks "broader subcontracting •	680 ■
Steel demands require cut in allocations ................................. 489	I
Steel moved into war production plants by joint action under
the steel recovery program	331 I
Steel production for 1943 estimated at 92,000,000 tons	417
“Task forces” to break bottlenecks	212 I
Tenth anniversary of Hitler’s power finds U.S. surpassing
Axis in war production	3^
United Nations outproduce Axis, President says	581
Victory garden—“Watch those chickens, pal”	41J
War Facts charts showing production data	512
War materiel production running 300 percent above 1942	3H
War program in 1943 to be 80 percent above that of 1942
(WPB Chai man Nelson)	617
War workers honored for production ideas—>157 from 18
States win awards	3^3
Profiteering: Black marketeers in meats are the new saboteurs, who place profits above patriotism	4^3
Public roads: New roads lead to raw materials—2,850 miles scheduled for construction	323
Publications:
Apprentice training pamphlets issued	315
Booklet explains program to control living costs	353
“Civilian Defense Manual on Legal Aspects of Civilian
Protection”	468
“Fitting Traffic Control	to Wartime”	4?8
Free upon request to Distribution Section, Office of War
Information	64
Government Manual	announced	687
Guidebook issued on absenteeism describes causes and suggests remedy methods	484
Handbook of the Emergency War Agencies, and Digest of the
Functions of Federal Agencies	5^9
“Inflation”—pamphlet issued by 0WI	90
List of 0WI publications available without cost	26
“Negroes and the War“ (0WI book)	89
“Physical Fitness” for high schools	27
Pictorial "Victory” for foreign readers—other publications	18b
Post-war thoughts of seven United Nations leaders published
by 0WI in new pamphlet	3^8
Posters, pamphlets, etc., free upon request to 0WI Division
of Public Inquiries	156
“Priorities” contains all unexpired priorities orders,
regulations, and reporting forms of WPB	176
“Bent Control“ booklet published	291, 294
“Small Retail Store Mortality” (Commerce Department)	673
“Spreading the Work” (booklet by Smaller War Plants
Co rporation)	680
“Take Care of the Wool You Have,“ posters, and other publications	444
“Tale of a City“—Warsaw, capital of Poland , reduced to begearv and starvation	^*93» ^96
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IPublications, continued:
’’Tomorrow’s Town”................................................   420
’’Toward New Horizons”—third pamphlet in series..................... 516
’’War and Peace Aims” pamphlet gives opinions of many United
Nations leaders	226
’’What Job Is Mine On The Victory Line?”	557
’’You and the War” (OCD)	158
Puerto Hico:
President asks Congress to pass legislation permitting
Puerto Hi cans to elect their own governor	3O8
Rules Committee of the House approved a proposed congressional
investigation of the present administration of Puerto Hico 332 Staple crop production increased, but island still dependent on imports
Sugar exports to the U.S. in 19^2 larger than in 1941	121
Q
Questionnaires:
Alien questionnaire unnecessary in many types of work	437
Burden of Government questionnaires reduced by special units
set up in 10 Federal agencies
Commerce Department to curtail questionnaires	213
■Revised, simplified form sent to 15»000 firms	441
R
Race prejudice: Labor dispute at Packard Motor Co. in Detroit result of race prejudice	597
Racketeers: Jail for meat racketeers urged by Price
Administrator Brown	251
Radar use as weapon of war describe! by Army-Navy	^46
Radio:
American soldiers in Newfoundland have been putting on
radio show, ’’Prepare For Action,” for nearly three months 60 Casablanca meeting story broadcast 721 times in 21
languages within 24 hours after communique	I3U
Civilians may expect better distribution of radio tubes	393
Dramatic programs broadcast by OCD	5^9
Farm radio battery shortage may be relieved by rescheduling 363 OWI Director Davis to broadcast weekly summaries
beginning March 12, 1943	264
Victory line radio parts promised soon	301
Railroads (see also Transportation; Railroads):
Accomplish diTTicult task of moving increased volume of
passengers and freight	435
Club, lounge, and observation cars converted or to be
converted into coaches or three-tier troop sleeping cars	57
Conservation of facilities by restriction of beer shipments 5^ Dining car meal price maximums established	572
Equipment covered by rulings	4.7g
Extra coal loads carried with minimum of congestion	561
Higher rates unnecessary	141
Management-Labor parley adopts a 13-point manpower program 142
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Manpower plan discussed......................................... 575
Met severe test in 1942 ..................................... 460,	461
Steam locomotives leased by roads with surplus of power to roads needing such power.......................................   87
Wage increase turned down by Director of Economic Stabilization	667
Ration banking mastered quickly	140
Ration banking program to start soon	52
Rationing:
Answers to consumer questions	410
Automobile regulations list essential	users	of cars	4^6
Barrier against inflation	195
Black-market gasoline—nonessential driving	out	603
Book No. 3 to be mailed in June and July	454
Book 3 applications being mailed to consumers	552
Car owners outside East to get new ration books by mail	528
Clothes rationing not in present prospect (OWI Director
Davis)	288
Conditions in Ge man-occupied countries	426
Consumer declaration for rationing of processed foods and cof fee	207
Dehydrated soups now unrationed	481
Dried fruit rationing temporarily	ended	3^4
Fam machinery	263
Food flow rationing transferred from Agriculture to OPA	247
Food rationing is impartial	51
Food rationing rules revised to simplify work of boards	432
Fuel oil delivery made easier	82
Gasoline coupon value reduced in eastern area	606
Gasoline mileage ceilings lifted for course-of-work driving	479
Gasoline rations can be renewed by mail	184
Gasoline supplies for essential uses increased by OPA—meat shortage areas aided	334
Grocers may get additional	foods	298
Issuance of Ration Book 2	234
Meat, cheese, butter, fats and canned fish rationed March 29	^05
Meat rationing points, table	revised	480
Meats, cheese, butter, fats, and canned fish	342
Medical services, gasoline, fuel oil, etc.	116
Members of armed forces on leave get coupons for rationed
food ’	582
Mileage rationing has greatly reduced nonessential driving	291
Motor-fuel tax collections reduced 31 percent in one year	410
New rationing program differs from plan for processed foods 342
Newly rationed foods listed by OPA	3^6
Official table of consumer point values for meat, fats, fish, and cheese	344
Official table of point values for processed foods	366
Play shoes may be bought without use of stamps	264
Pleasure driving banned in east shortage area	5$
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Rationing, continued:
Point rationing explained for retailers and wholesalers . . .	204
Point ration rules issued by OPA......................................... 261
Point ration stamps overlap in March..................................... 271
Point rationing explained	19
Point rationing system for canned, bottled, and frozen fruits
and vegetables to begin March 1	169
Point rationing to begin March 1	165
Point rations are fair	118
Point values of most fruit and vegetable juices lowered	480
Point values set for meats and fats program	329
Problems solved by CPA	13Q
Processed foods rationing explained	184
Public eating places—consumption of processed foods to be
restricted	260
Ranchers allowed quantity purchases	184
Rations help everybody (list of things rationed)	50
Regulations further simplified	552
Regulations will apply inequitably and cause inconveniences,
OWI report predicts	425
“Rationing Reminders.“	19
also Rationing Reminders.)
Restrictions removed from farm machines	430
Retailers and distributors asked to use care in ration
transfers	63O
Rules for food dealers revised on banking and inventories	502
Rules on rationing to be relaxed whenever possible (Price
Administrator Brown)	260
Rules revised on dried beans, peas, and lentils	387
Seven-day overlapping of stemp validity helps housewife	683
Shoe dealers had full information within 48 hours after order 205
Shoe rationing program catches dealers and public unaware	182
United States menu still world’s best—a banquet compared
to Britain’s	282
Voluntary rationing for scarce goods	238
Volunteers assist purchasers counting points on canned food 236
War Ration Book 2 explained	117
Rationing Reminders: Dates to be remembered in connection with various rationed products	19,
51,	82, 118, lUO, 18J, 21U, 236, 258 , 289 , 317 . 3>+3. 3&5. Ull, U33,
U56, U82, 529, 553, 583, 631, 683 Rayon:
Civilian rayon supplies ample, but WPB urges conservation	73
Fewer rayon stockings will be available this year	138
Hose prices slashed April 15	295
Real estate earns more under rent control	635
Reciprocal Trade Act extended 2 years	534
Red Cross:
Amy and Navy have asked Red Cross to procure 4,000,000
pints of blood during 1943	111
Blood plasma supplies saved lives of hundreds of wounded at
Pea rl Harbor	259
Drive to raise $125,000,000 headed by Walter S. Gifford,
President American Telephone and Telegraph Co.	225
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Red Cross, continued:
First-run movies thought to patients in Army hospitals ....	219
Food packages delivered to American prisoners of war ....	28
President opens drive for $125»OOO,OOO . • ................. 259»	267	’
Sets up volunteer corps	415
Reforestation put off for the duration	200
Refrigerator car shortage to increase	3^3
Refrigerators:
Household refrigerators—400,000— to he released	393
Sale of used refrigerators modified under new rules	3^9
Regional labor boards are set up in 12 cities	119
Registrants 18 to 45 must carry cards	152
Regulations: New WPB regulations issued January 5-11»
inclusive	48-49
(See also War Production Board: New orders, forms, etc.)
Reich bonds ruled deductible for income tax purposes
(Commissioner of Internal Revenue Helvering)	106
Releases: List of official war releases obtainable from U.S.
Information Center	30» 62,
94,	126, 157, 189, 253, 278, 302. 325, 3^9, 373» 397,. 4a, 445, 469,
493,	517. 5^1. 566, 590, 614, 638, 662, 686
Religious freedom: Bishop of Berlin excoriates Nazi philosophy 97-9$ Religious persecution practiced in Warsaw on an almost
unbelievable scale	196
Rental of planes to students training for war (CAA)	4j5
Rents:
Cabin rents lowered	320
Control of rents checks inflation	21
Real estate earns more under rent control	635
’’Rent Control” booklet published	291» 2^4
Requisitioning of Axis goods by BEW results in diversion of
$34,000,000 worth of goods to United Nations	134
Research scientists engaged in war work	41
Retail store mortality: Report published by Department of
Commerce	673
Retribution: Hitler ”In the limelight”	(cartoon)	6b9
Revolts in occupied countries causing great concern to Nazis	6
Rice: Allocations set for allies	359
Rio de Janeiro conference program benefits people of both
continents	130
Roads (see also Highways): New roads lead to raw materials—
2,850 miles scheduled for construction	323
Roll-back program established for meat and butter	635
Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin excoriates Nazi philosophy	97“9$
Rubber:
Authority to allot rubber among all claimant agencies, military and civilian, conferred on Rubber Director
Jeffers	73
Baruch report shbwed rubber must be saved	11
Camelback prices raised	443
Conserved by	Army program	to	redesign equipment	3^4
Critical rubber period to be between October 1943 and
March 1944	(Rubber Director	Jeffers)	237
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Rubber, continued!
Dealers in rubber footwear aided......................................	238
Production of rubber one of our major programs for 1943 (WPB
Chairman Nelson)................................................ 72
Russian dandelion experimental planting.............................	121
Shoppers can help to save rubber	42
Synthetic rubber plants with production capacity of 400,000
tons annually expected to be completed by mid-July (WPB
Chairman Nelson)	IjO
United Rubber Workers of America, CIO, strike	572
Western Hemisphere rubber production expected to be doubled
in 19U3	13
Rumors:
All rumors should be challenged	35
Nazis stir invasion rumors	6^5
OPA Administrator Brown warns public against increase of
false rumors	454
Rural Electrification Administration report shows growth of
electric systems	263
Rural road traffic continues decline	410
Russia:
Food shipments expected to be larger than lend-lease food
deliveries to all other parts of the world combined	165
Lend-lease aid to Russia being stepped up (Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr.)	100
Lend-lease aid to Russia reported by Administrator
Stettinius	328
Lend-lease aid 10 percent higher in January than in December	250
Lend-lease beef shipments to Russia veiy small during
January and February	357
President gives Red Anny on Russian Front the place of
first importance in strategic picture of 1942	38
Will get more lend-lease food this year than all other
nations combined	143
Russian dandelion rubber experiment	121
S
Sabotage prevented by FBI	532
Saboteurs:
Black marketeers, who place profits above patriotism, called
the new saboteurs	453
Citizens asked to cooperate with FBI in guarding against new
crop of trained saboteurs	533
Federal Bureau of Investigation asks cooperation against
saboteurs	509
Safety program (see also Accident prevention): Supervisors
trained to instruct workers in health and safety	485
Safety rules (Industry casualty list)	628
Salesmen distributing essential commodities to be allowed
additional mileage	52
Salvage:
Army returns scrap from overseas	9$
Fat salvage in January up 900.000 pounds	3^
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Fate and oils................................................. 1J1
Fats and oils salvaged by Germany............................. 228
Fats salvage sharply increased................................ 520
Iron and steel scrap salvage shipments down	489
Iron salvage near quota	290
Kid Salvage. (See Cartoons: Kid Salvage.)
Need of tin cans stressed by WPB Chairman Nelson	205
Waste fats saved in December amounted to 5*000,000 pounds—
much more needed	232
Women give 7$ tons of hose to war	28
School bus gas assured by ODT rule	385
School buses need new certification	124
School lunch program: Merchants to supply food	150
School supplies—price formula fixed	110
Science works for war	bl
Scientists and specialists—5$$»$00 cataloged by National
Roster of Scientific and Specialized personnel	108
Scrap: January steel scrap almost fills quota	3^3
Seafood sources developed	559
Second War Loan subscriptions exceed Liberty Loan drives	476
Secret Service suggests ways to prevent Government checks from
being stolen and forged	5>O9. 676
Selective service (see also Army; Deferment):
Agricultural deferments liberalized to keep more workers on farms	120
Agricultural workers being deferred at rate of 6.5OO a day	297
Ban on induction of fathers may be lifted in two months	U39
Blanket deferment of any group strictly prohibited (Director
of Selective Service)	U6
Class IV-H ended, and reclassification ordered for men over
38	297
Draft boards now recruit Navy volunteers	86
Draft deferments of agricultural workers liberalized	102
Employers requested to file draft form with local board	5^5
Essential activities itemized by WMC	3^$
Fathers will not be drafted before July (General Hershey)	381
FBI enforces Selective Sendee Act	532
Men of draft age in 65 occupations must seek war work or be
classed in 1-A after April 1	173
Merchant seamen get deferred status	211
More jobs listed as essential to news	152
“Necessary men” defined by WMC	55
New draft, order changes system of dependency deferments	U14
Occupational guides amended by Bureau	543
Percentage of Negroes in Navy to equal population proportion %3 President sets up deferment system which determines status
of all Government men	309
Procedure for Army transfers announced	412
Registrants 18 to U5 must carry cards	152
Replacement schedules will plan for induction of fathers	¿o?
after October	.
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States follow quotas in supplying men....................................... 19^
I Shark steaks may add 2,000,000 pounds to food supply................. }06
Ship agreement between U.S, and Britain halts litigation .... j6
I Shipbuilding:
Construction «days per Liberty ship reduced greatly during 1942	47
Delivery of four ships a day in 1942 shatters all records
(Chairman Land, Maritime Commission)	40
Goal threatened by labor turnover •	412
Increased production pace may complete expanded Navy in 1945
(Navy Secretapr Knox)	281
Liberty Ship construction time reduced three-fourths	122
Maritime Commission constructing world’s largest fleet of
ships, 175 delivered in May 1943	602
Merchant vessels delivered April 1942 to March 194}	416
Output in January tops million tons	181
Petroleum barge fleet for operation on the Mississippi and
Ohio Rivers	537
President told the press that the 1942 merchant ship goal of
8,000,000 tons was exceeded by almost 91,000 tons	39
Production in March 17 percent above February	5^3
Records broken during past year by production of more than 8,000,000 tons (Maritime Commission)	400
Tankers built in 1942 number 62, of which 10 were in
December	34
United States planning to build 18,890,000 deadweight tons of new shipping in 1943	211
Victory Fleet increased in January by 106 vessels, about 1,008,400 deadweight tons	169
Shipping:
Cargo insurance rules eased	151
Construction of merchant ships one of our major production
programs in 1943 (WPB Chairman Nelson)	72
Merchant Seamen are patriotic—deliver goods despite casualties	181
Navy develops new packaging methods to expedite delivery of war materials	217
Shortage of shipping brings pinch of hunger to some Latin-
American countries	164
Shipping containers to be improved	3^9
Shoe rationing: Dealers had full information within 4g hours after order	205
Shoes:
Explanation of athletic shoe rationing	432
How to make shoes last longer	232
Play shoes may be bought without use of stamps	264
Rationing order necessary to conserve heavy sole leather	203
Rationing problems cleared up by specific answers to consumer questions	410
Rationing program catches dealers and public unaware	182
Rationing rules clarified by OPA	482
Stamp No. 18 good through October	630
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Women to get stamps for safety shoes ...........................  582	I
Silver:	I
Congress tentatively votes to stop silver purchases by the Treasury.......................................................  168
House votes nullification of Silver Purchase Act ............... 201
Simplification:
Consolidation of Army-Navy specifications	105
Directory desipied to speed inquiries on prices	530
Program for 19-3 covers wider range of items	640
Relief for harassed businessmen promised by Commerce
Department in curtailment of questionnaires	213
Textile constructions simplified in hope of increasing production by 230,000,000 yards of cotton textiles annually	3^-0
Wire and phone rush orders for scarce materials simplified	10
Shoppers can help to save rubber	42
Slave labor among Nazis described	555
Slogan of Second War Loan Drive is "They give their lives—you lend your money”	403
Small business: Retail store mortality—report by Commerce
Department	673
Small plants: Substantial gain in contracts let to small companies	170
Smaller War Plant Corporation:
Activities shuffled	363
Aided by regional offices	158
Subcontracting increase asked	680, 681
Smaller war plants get big Army order	386
Smaller war plants given larger war	orders	ic4
Social security:
President proposes that social security be extended to cover every American ’’from- the cradle to the grave”	39
President sends Congress plan for expanded social security 3C8
Soldiers and sailors: Guaranties of privileges given men of armed forces	(	5^
Soup packers get more cans	73
Soups: Dehydrated soups now unrationed	481
Soya production rapidly increased	507
Soybeans: New uses discovered by agricultural research	458
Speed limit: Emergency trucks permitted to exceed speed limit	239
Sports: Baseball games assured next season by new baseball	142
Stabilization. (See Economic stabilization.)
Stabilization of wages. (See Wages.)
Standardization:
Consolidation of Army-Navy	specifications	105
Grade labeling of 1943 pack of canned fruits and vegetables to be required	261
Recommended by Bureau of Standards	688
State maternity care planned	356
Steel:
Allocation of 300,000 tons of carbon steel for new machinery in third quarter of 1943	^33
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Campaign to produce 2,000,000 extra tons....................... .	681
Industry oxdered on ^-hour workweek by August 1........................ 601
January steel scrap almost fills quota	3^3
Joint action moves idle steel into war production plants	33^
Only 15 million tons available to fill claimant agency
requests for 21 million	^+89
Plate production in January was an all-time monthly record
of 1,135,413 tons	169
Plate shipments in May dropped to 1,114,920 net tons, compared
with March record of 1,167»679	tons	593
Rigid inspection slows steel plate	output	441
Wood suggested as a substitute for steel in truck and trailer construction	172
Stephen cartoon on Axis Dunkirk	401
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.: Reports on two years of lend-lease
operations	328
Stockings (see also Hosiery): Women’s hosiery will meet quality, quantity needs	579
Storm windows: Sashless	storm window devised	74
Stoves:
List of persons eligible to apply for ration certificates
to purchase coal-burning stoves broadened	365
Rationing to begin in June	529
Strategic materials:
Allies to get supplies of strategic raw materials from French
North Africa	266
Mission to Pacific isles seeks supplies	264
Restricting articles civilians use saves about 2,000,000 tons
a year of critical metals besides other materials	244
Strikes. (See Labor disputes.)
Subcont racting:
Reviewed by Chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation
in effort to bring about the greatest practicable volume
of subcontracting	Jll
Smaller War Plants Corporation asks broader subcontracting 680
Submarine battle in Atlantic still one of the most serious
problems (0WI Director Davis)	103
Submarines:
Control predicted by Admiral King, Commander in Chief of the
U.S. Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations	4j7
German sub fleet hamstrung	608
Subsidies:
Price roll-back program of OPA eliminated by Congress	665
Roll-back program established for meat and butter	635
Subsidy payments to be made to processors of meats, coffee, butter, etc.	499
Substitutes: Wartime restrictions on materials challenge
American ingenuity in producing substitutes	568
Sugar:
Meat certificates may be used for the purchase of sugar	.
and coffee	.	432
No stamps required for sugar to be used in home canning	*+07
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Sugar, continued
Puerto Hico sugar exports to the United States in 19^2 larger
than in 19^1 ...............................................    121
Ration banking currency deposits................................  1^0
Reasons for rationing explained................................... 5$
Supplies: Procurement policies stated by Director Hudgins of
WPB division	72
Symposium, “What 19^3 Holds in Store for the Civilian
Population,“ by nine Government officials	3
T
Taft, Charles P. (Acting chairman of President’s War Relief
Control Board): War relief plans outlined	88
“Tale of a City“—Warsaw a typical conquered city	193» 196
Talk: Loose talk costs lives	35
Taxation:
American paying lower taxes than British and Canadians	U28
Congress warns income tax due March 15 must be paid,
regardless of proposed changes in the internal-revenue law 168 Congressional conferees agree on tax bill	570
Higher taxes and compulsory saving planned	353
House passes compromise tax bill	498
Income tax returns filed by about 38 »000,000 individuals on
or before March 15	U29
Income tax returns must be made on or before March 15,
regardless of any new plan	103, 277
Military personnel advised on taxes	647
Military personnel income taxes deferred without interest up
to six months after termination of military service	111
Pay-as-we-go basis for income taxes favored by President
Roosevelt	39
Pay-as-you-go tax	bill	passed	598
Pay-as-you-go taxation considered most immediate problem of
Congress	71
President asks	Congress	for	100 percent tax on high incomes	229
President calls for $16,000,000,000 in added taxes for 19^
fiscal year	70
Profits for first quarter of 19^3 continue to rise despite
taxes (Commerce Department)	6U6
Reich bonds are deductible (Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Helvering)	106
Senate passes revised Rumi tax plan	53^
Treasury announces support of tax bill	476
Treasuiy favors collection of taxes at income source	88
Taxicabs and buses ordered to reduce mileage in eastern shortage area	585
Taxi owners in Chicago agree to save tire miles	313
Teacher shortage in rural schools to be averted by six-point
program of WMC committee	678
Telephone rates cut	12U
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Cotton fabric and yarn industry asked to increase output for
1943 at least 10 percent over 1942.................................. 795
Price ceilings on model work clothes, overalls, etc................. 443
Production of woolen and worsted woven fabrics sets record
of 525»OOO»OOO yards in one year	U17
Tin:
Need of tin cans stressed by WPB Chairman Nelson	205
Soup packers get more cans	73
Tires:
Basis of allotment for tires changed	3^7
Idle tires allotted to recappers	51
Idle tire purchases near completion with the sending out of
2,500,000 checks or acknowledgnents of gifts to owners	290
Inspection dates changed to minimize public inconvenience	87
Rationing regulations changed	204
Reasons for rationing	50
Retreading urged for car conservation	336
Taxi owners in Chicago agree to save tire miles	313
Tires promised for trucks and buses	192
Tobacco: Burley price control broadened by OPA	90
Traffic accident aid pledged by firemen	5
Traffic control policies of ODT sent to mayors of all cities of
10,000 population or over	336
Traffic delays help the Axis (ODT Director Eastman)	70
Traffic signal rules revision urged by ODT	220
Training planes may be rented to students training for war (CAA) 435 Training program:
Apprentice training program enlarged	84
Amy and Navy	224
College trainees in Anny’s specialized program to become
cadets	361
Increases skill of workers	284
Naval College Training Program geared	to	demands of war	382
War Department will train machine	recorders	79
War Manpower Commission to train 10,000,000 workers for war
industry and agriculture	679
Work supervisors trained by Army—62,000 since August 1942	360
Transportation (see' also Railroads; Shipping):
Agencies act to ease strain on transportation system	312
Air transport covered in 0WI report	604
Antitrust immunity for joint operation	419
Army redesigns equipment to save rubber stocks	3^
Anny troop and supply movement four times as great as in one
year of last world war	644
Bus and taxicab operators of fleets of 10 or more vehicles
requested to plan mileage cuts	131
Cargo shipped to overseas troops averaging 82 pounds per man
per day, compared ’with 43 in previous war	35^
Car-sharing increase asked by Price Administrator Brown	289
Civilians asked to eliminate nonessential vacation travel
to make way for movement of over 2,000,000 troops a month 620
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Transportation, continued Delivery of small packages stopped.............................  .	651
Facilities must be stretched to their utmost to ease petroleum shortage............................................   653
Freight rate reduction to save $35^*000,000 annually	537
Fuel dealers asked to cooperate in round-the-clock loading 5^
Fuel shipments to Bast grow	3^
Gas for school busses assured by ODT rule	3^5
Gasoline "T” rations in East cut 50 percent	5^
Guide lists methods of saving mileage	50^4
Guide to wartime traffic control offered local authorities $7$ ’’Improperly coordinated traffic signals waste time, gasoline,
and rubber” (ODT Director Eastman)	70
Inland waterways use increases	519
Manpower a serious problem for railroads and truck companies 151 • Manpower shortage analyzed	537
Mileage of Federal motor vehicles to be cut 50 percent	28o
Milk truck plan saves many man-days and more than a hundred
thousand truck-miles annually	250
Navy develops new packaging methods toexpedite delivery of
war materials	217
Oil shortage on east coast entirely a transportation problem 169 Passenger travel puts strain on railroads	U61
Remit system extended to help lake craft increase ore
movement	620
Pleasure driving ban proved effective—now on honor basis	288
- Queer vehicles being designed to keep Americans on wheels	151
Rail manpower IJ-point program	152
Railroad manpower plan discussed at meeting	675
Railroad travel cut to save coal	$79
Railroads carry extra coal loads with minimum of congestion 5bl Railroads met severe test in 1952	560
Railroads move increased volume of passengers and freight	535
Railroads with surplus of motive power lease surplus steam
locomotives to other roads needing power	87
Rationing of auto service urged by ODT	57
Rural road traffic continues decline	510
Rural traffic continues decline	5^5
Rural traffic in 16 mileage rationed States dropped 51
percent in November 1952 from the same month in 19U1	87
School busses need new certification	12“
Shipping containers to be improved	3®
Shortage of transportation blamed for many job absences	3^1
States asked to enact speed laws (ODT Director Eastman)	239
. Tank car deliveries of petroleum still below pre-flood average	5^5
Traffic control policies of ODT sent to mayors of all cities of 10,000 or over	33^
Traffic signal rules revision urged by ODT	220
Uniform laws urged to end	State traffic barriers	275
Volume of commodity and passenger traffic increased 28
percent in 1952 over	1951	57
Week-end travel by civilians hampers war transportation	651
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Transportation» continued
Women workers in transportation industry number more than 160,000 ....................................................... 574
Wooden barges built by Army to operate under charter ....	J}6
Tripoli falls to Allies..........................................      106
Trucking industry: Government may direct motortruck routing and dispatching	142
Trucks: Heavy truck production cut	42
Tunisia:
Air campaign on schedule	427
Allies occupy port of Sousse, and take more than 20,000
prisoners in 12 days	401
Battle moves toward climactic phase	4-27
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Unemployment: Comparison of 1940 and 1943 (chart)	556
Uniform laws urged to end State traffic barriers	2J5
United Mine Workers leaders condemned by President Roosevelt	667
United Nations:
Flag Day celebrations in allied lands linked to those in
this country	599
Food production is highly coordinated	33O
Forces and equipment compared with that of Axis nations	12
Leaders quoted in ’’War and Peace Aims”	226
United Nations Information Board told by Lord Halifax of need
of united action	37
United Service Organizations carry entertainment to American
troops abroad	424
V
V-Home:
Buy War Bonds and Stamps regularly	137
Conservation slogan (cartoon)	85
Refuses to spread Axis rumors (Cartoon by G. Williams)	60
Salvages materials needed for war production (cartoon)	105
V-mail:
Plan saves letters lost in plane crash	232
Records set in February by transmission of 5» 990,570 microfilmed letters	3^0
Service of Navy expanding	206
Vacation travel elimination requested	620, 621
Vanadium: Rich bed found in Idaho and Wyoming	239
Vegetables:
Dehydration facilities expected to be increased by
200,000,000 pounds annually	248
Pricing of 19^3 packs	409
Venereal disease: Thirteen hospitals rehabilitate	women	155
’’Victory”: Pictorial ’’Victory” for foreign readers	186
Victory gardens:
Advice given by Agriculture Department	383
Army camps planting gardens	k™
Goal for 19^3 set at 18,000,000	198
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Victory Garden, continued:
Program outlined .............................................. 2^8
Public advised to plant gardens or help on farms............... 257
Should be planted by every man, woman, and child who can
work with a spade, rake, and hoe (OCD Director Landis) . .	2^6
Ten basic rules of guidance offered Victory gardeners	3^
Tools and spray supplies ample	^30
Victory Loan Campaign in April seeks to top $13,000,000,000	1%
Vitamins: Soldiers get 8,000 international units of vitamin A daily	U72
Vocational training (see also Training program): Education program designed to increase workers’ skill	28^
W
Wages:
Adjustment procedures revised to speed settlements	3^
Agreements on wage policy must conform to stabilization plan	55
Board denies miners’ demands for $2-a-day increase	572
Chaotic wage condition in West Coast aircraft industry under
study	271
Classifications based on race difference are without
validity (NWLB)	618
Coal miners’ portal-pay demands	refused by War Labor Board	655
Coal miners return to work after Government seizure of
mines	^73
Coal miners’ weekly earnings found lower than those in other war industries	5^
Coal miners strike for higher wages	hU9
Commission established by NWLB to settle labor disputes in the shipbuilding industry	85
Decisions of NWLB should be accepted by labor and management	667
Employers granted right to increase wage	rates (WPB)	339
Equal pay for equal work ordered for Coast air plants	298
Facts on bituminous coal dispute	59&
Indust ly and labor have accepted wage stabilization (NWLB
Chairman Davis)	115
labor disputes not settled by other peaceful procedures to
be taken over by National War Labor Board	3$&
National Bailway Labor Panel given jurisdiction over all rail wage and salary disputes	175
National War Labor Board refuses, to grant increase to
180,000 in “Big Four“ meat packing companies	216
National War Labor Board votes to deny the AFL members’
petition that the Little Steel formula be scrapped	3^7
No further general wage increases beyond the “Little
Steel” formula except to correct gross inequities	353
Over-all wage stabilization asked by	CIO	339
Overtime pay assured	197
Pay adjustments decentralized	153
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I Wages, continued:
I	Price and wage level policies to benefit civilians............	267
I	Bail road wage increase turned down by Director of Economic
i	Stabilization .............................. ........	667
i	Restrictions in Executive Order 9J28 held to hamper NWLB’s
power to rule equi tably in wage disputes . . . . ............ 515
Stabilization of wages	59
Uniform work and wage policy asked by Walter P. Reuther for automotive industiy	108
Wage agreements in coal industry urged by Solid Fuels
Coordinator for War Ickes	198
Wage increases have had little effect on prices (WPB)	5^7
Wage stabilization is administered democratically (NWLB
Chairman Davis)	119
War Labor Board proposes to interpret stabilization order strictly	4}4
War Labor Board strengthens	wage stabilization program	405
Western Union employees receive 15 percent increase by order of WLB	619
Women may be paid same rates as men (NWLB)	597
War and business:
Aluminum use limited under new WPB ruling	}10
Nation’s war industries produced 7^,000 large aircraft bombs in Januaiy	.	291
11 War and Peace Aims“—pamphlet prepared by United Nations
Information Office	226
War bond sales from May 1941 to Pebruaiy 1943	33$
War costs. (See Appropriations; Expenditures.) War Department: Renegotiation of contracts by War and. Navy
Departments saves $2,500,000,000	489
War facts:
Cost of living, prices, national income, production, manpower, etc,	390
Expenditure of Victory Funds	91
Financial and construction data	634
Expenditures, income, etc,, 19^0 to 1942	210
Financial and manpower data	440, 5^0
Indices of American industrial effort	241, 270, 300
Manpower, construction, expenditures, etc.	362
Manpower, labor disputes, expenditures,	etc.	466
Manpower, war expenditures, etc.	658
Miscellaneous data	53^
Munitions production index	146
Prices and financial data	488
Prices, income, etc.	682
Prices, income, cost of income, etc.	588
Production, construction, expenditures,	etc.	416
Production data	512
Program progress, merchant vessels delivered, income payments, employment, labor disputes,	etc.	610
Women in war	18
Work week grows, 1940-4-2 (chart)	125.
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War front:
Bizerte, Tunis fall to Allied forces ....... .................. 497
Complete victory at Guadalcanal gives Allies valuable new "base . ....................................................... 202
Japs smashed in Papua, Tripoli falls to Allies................  106
Three Japanese troopships destroyed in aerial attack ....	46
Summary of military, naval, and air operations in many
places	72, 166, 23O
Victory in North Africa demonstrates striking power of integrated force	523
War Fund Campaign of Bed Cross to raise $125,000,000	225
War Information, Office of:
Congress omits appropriation for Domestic Branch	642
President gives to 0WI the propaganda activities of the
Office of Strategic Services
Press releases January 17-23	126
School to train 0WI foreign workers	287
War labor Board: Authority partly restored	527
War last week:
Aerial battle over Guadalcanal cost Japanese 94 planes	645
Allies clear Mediterranean straits, taking 3 islands in
3	day*	623
Attu Island campaign takes Japanese forces by surprise	547
Axis ships sunk, submarine control predicted, progress in
Tunisia, Aleutian attacks, etc.	477
Battle for Tunisia moves toward climactic phase	427
Bomb tonnage dropped on Europe in May 70 percent above any previous month	595
Casablanca conference may have resulted in unified Allied command in Africa	136
Industrial cities of Buhr Valley devastated by Allied bombings	668
Summary of success of Allies on all war fronts	7
Tunisia decision expected soon, Axis losses, Solomons area 379
War Loan Drives: Second War Loan Drive must enlist support of general public	403
War Manpower Commission: Acts to stop job transfers of essential workers	436
War Meat Board set up to handle meat supply	55$
War Mobilization, Office of, established by President	5©
War Production Board:
Abstract of priorities action	31$
Aids businessmen in finding their way about Washington and in solving their war production problems	220
New orders, forms, etc.	16, 48, 92,
176	, 220, 240, 268, 292, 318, 346, 370, 394, 418, 438, 464, 490,
514, 538, 562, 586, 612, 636, 660, 684
Reorganization	290
Revocation orders listed	371
War Relocation Authority:
Cooperating with War Department in giving Japanese evacuees opportunities in military and civilian employment	19$
Removal of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry from west coast areas	676
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War strategy:
Food a war weapon against the Axis ;......................... 68,	69
German strategy counted on disunity, but now JO nations stand solidly against Axis..............	....................... 12
President Roosevelt announces “complete agreement on future operations in all theaters of the war”	570
War time continuance urged by Under Secrete ri es of War and Navy 28U
Warsaw, a typical conquered city, described in OWI pamphlet 19J, 196 “Washington Is A Mad-house” referred to by the President in
his message to Congress.	J8
Washing machines: Ceiling prices established	U9I
Welfare of armed forces: Guaranties of privileges granted men of armed forces	555
Western Union: Wage increase of 15 percent ordered by WLB	619
Whale meat available	U55
Wheat:
Estimate of 19^3 winter wheat crop much below 19^2 production	4o6
Loans on 19^2 wheat amount to $^5$» 920,883. J J	I458
Loans made on 19^2 wheat	506
Sale of 100,000,000 additional bushels for feed authorized 358 Whisky:
Kentucky prices set for bulk	whisky	182
Rationing not necessary	Ujj
Warehouse receipts for bulk whisky are subject to price control	110
White Book of State Department branded by Axis as lies	36
Willow Run bomber plant production expected to reach peak
production within a year	2Uj
Women:
British women war workers of today reflect picture of
America tomorrow	15
List of available war jobs made available to women	510
Eligible for enlistment in	Civil Air Patrol	675
Employment of 18,000,000 women possible by end of 19^3
(WMC Chairman McNutt)	337
Enlisted as fire guards to fight incendiary bomb action	61b
Farm womanpower to increase as summer approaches	361
Four million housewives in labor reserves	188
Give 70 tone of hose to war	28
Hold important positions in field of communications	678
lady of Fashion—Spring 1^3 (Cartoon by Coakley)	U37
Many women work in transportation induetiy	U19
May be paid same rates as men	597
More women needed in industry, OWI manpower survey indicates 556
Navy Hospital Corps accepting women	5CI
Record increase in women workers expected to continue this
year	57U
Replacement of men in war industries	5U
Senate passes a bill including women veterans of this war in the allowance for medical care and death benefits	3^7
Skills developed in home kitchens needed for food preservation	575
Survey shows more women can release male labor	272
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Women, continued;
Voluntary mobilisation of women for war work....................... gU	1
War jobs listed for women in industry............................. 557	1
What women can do................................................ 5I4
WISES join WAAC’s, WAVES, and SPATS	............... 67
Women’s Lend Army, recruits from city and town women	' U06
Women’s Land Army planned	U86
Wood:
Fuel wood output reduction threatens to increase demand for coal next winter	799
Suggested as substitute for steel in truck and trailer construction	170
Wool:	'
Government to become “middleman1’ in purchase and sale of wool U59
Increased woolen output ordered by WPB	525
Prices supported by Government	337
Woolen, worsted output sets record in	19^2	I417
Workers* ideas used in plants	55
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