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Women workers are fading from the labor market in increasing numbers, reported OWI last week. This drift back home is due to production cutbacks and layoffs; many of the women discharged do not apply for other available jobs. The chief reasons...
...been set long in advance. Had any major revision been contemplated, Franklin Roosevelt would almost certainly have brought along General Marshall and Admiral King. As it was, except for his personal chief of staff, Admiral Leahy, the chief advisers on the trip were Sam Rosenman, his speech writer, and OWI Boss Elmer Davis...
This week listeners at Europe's 36,000,000 radio sets might have heard New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman preaching civil disobedience. The Archbishop's OWI broadcast (his first), rebroadcast by BBC, eloquently urged Hungary's nine million Roman Catholics* to disobey their Government's new anti-Semitic decrees...
...Richard Edes Harrison's Look at the World- Alfred A. Knopf ($3.50); OWI's A War Atlas for Americans-Simon & Schuster ($2.50); Fairfield Osborn's The Pacific World-W. W. Norton & Co. ($3); David Greenhood's Down to Earth- Holiday House ($4); Erwin Raisz's Atlas of Global Geography-Harper & Bros. ($3.50); Nicholas Spykman's The Geography of the Peace -Harcourt, Brace & Co. ($2.75); Irving Fisher & 0. M. Miller's World Maps and Globes- Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...news pool, into which the OWI tried to have all available assault copy funneled and shared jointly by U.S. press agencies, broke down in bickering and what one correspondent called "no more than the usual thuggery." After five days it was abandoned...