Sources for every story in the 1945 number

The war is over: Japan signs on the Missouri

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender
2. docsteach.org/documents/document/surrender-ceremony-uss-missouri
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day

Inside today

House notice: no outside sources.

Fifty nations sign a charter against another world war

1. un.org/en/about-us/history-of-the-un/preparatory-years
2. research.un.org/en/unmembers/founders
3. un.org/en/about-us/history-of-the-un/san-francisco-conference
4. ask.un.org/faq/243656

The weather

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Homestead_hurricane
2. goldcoastrailroadmuseum.org/richmond-naval-air-station-1
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash

Roosevelt dies; a nation at war mourns

1. fdr.blogs.archives.gov/?p=4865
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/4-12-45.htm
3. whitehousehistory.org/bios/franklin-roosevelt
4. inaugural.senate.gov/swearing-in-of-truman

Europe is free; the war goes on

1. archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/summer/war-message.html
2. nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/v-e-day-victory-europe

One bomb, 20,000 tons of TNT: the atom is loosed on Japan

1. americanyawp.com/reader/24-world-war-ii/harry-truman-announcing-the-atomic-bombing-of-hiroshima-1945/
2. history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-accepts-potsdam-terms-agrees-to-unconditional-surrender

The year at a glance — victory, loss and the atom

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

The war is over: Japan signs on the Missouri, continued

1. docsteach.org/documents/document/surrender-ceremony-uss-missouri
2. ussmissouri.org/learn-the-history/surrender

A new republic, two claimants: Indonesia will not go back to Dutch rule

1. history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Indonesian_Independence

Ho Chi Minh tells a Hanoi crowd that Viet Nam is an independent republic

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Independence_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Vietnam
2. history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa

How the Courier works

House notice: no outside sources.

Atomic bomb hits Japan, continued

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
2. americanyawp.com/reader/24-world-war-ii/harry-truman-announcing-the-atomic-bombing-of-hiroshima-1945/

Soviet armies open a new front against Japan

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/8-9-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender

Japan yields; America cheers and turns toward home

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/8-15-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day

The desert flashed—and the secret broke

1. afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/History/Trinity-Nuclear-Test/
2. nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/atomic-energy-military-purposes-smyth-report

Americans land in force in defeated Japan

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/8-30-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender

Pappy Boyington comes back

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/8-30-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-1-45.htm

Indianapolis makes her run, then vanishes

1. history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

Three nations ask the U.N. to take up the atom

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-15-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States
3. americanyawp.com/reader/24-world-war-ii/harry-truman-announcing-the-atomic-bombing-of-hiroshima-1945/

Roosevelt is laid to rest at Hyde Park

1. fdr.blogs.archives.gov/?p=4865
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/4-12-45.htm

Roosevelt begins a fourth term above a snowy lawn

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/1-20-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

Roosevelt, seated, tells Congress of Yalta: 'There can be no middle ground'

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/3-1-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

From a Missouri farm to a nation at war

1. millercenter.org/node/321
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/4-12-45.htm
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman

Truman asks for courage—and an understanding heart

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/4-16-45.htm
2. millercenter.org/node/321
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/4-17-45.htm

The eagle turns toward peace

1. whitehousehistory.org/a-brief-history-of-the-presidential-seal
2. presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-9646-coat-arms-seal-and-flag-the-president-the-united-states

Berlin falls; the dictators are dead

1. britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Berlin
2. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/history-through-viewfinder-39
3. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/hitler-commits-suicide
4. britannica.com/event/How-did-Adolf-Hitler-die
5. nationalww2museum.org/death-of-adolf-hitler
6. britannica.com/biography/Karl-Donitz
7. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/german-forces-surrender-to-the-allies
8. history.com/articles/mussolinis-final-hours
9. nationalww2museum.org/death-of-benito-mussolini

Europe is free, continued

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/5-8-45.htm
2. archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/summer/war-message.html
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day

Britain changes leaders at the Big Three table

1. atomicarchive.com/history/manhattan-project/p5s9.html
2. history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf
3. britannica.com/event/Potsdam-Conference
4. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/potsdam-conference
5. britannica.com/topic/Potsdam-Declaration
6. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/end-of-the-second-world-war-80th-anniversary/
7. winstonchurchill.org/resources/reference/churchills-elections/
8. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf
9. britannica.com/biography/Clement-Attlee
10. history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945Berlinv02/d1383

The medic who would not carry a rifle wins the Medal of Honor

1. trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/66-3125
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss

A narrow gate opens for Europe's homeless

1. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/president-truman-statement-and-directive-on-displaced-persons-december-1945
2. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/truman-directive-on-immigrant-visas

Audie Murphy comes home to Texas, a sharecropper's son with every medal for valor

1. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/murphy-audie-leon
2. mohmuseum.org/stories/boyhood-battlefield-big-screen-the-story-of-audie-murphy

U.N. turns from Europe toward an American home

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-22-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-29-45.htm
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-31-45.htm

General Bradley takes over the veterans

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/6-8-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bradley

Soldiers' wives and children may come home, quotas or no

1. govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-59/pdf/STATUTE-59-Pg659.pdf
2. uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/fact-sheets/INSHistory.pdf

Mrs. Roosevelt goes back to public service, for the United Nations

1. history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v01/d3
2. nps.gov/elro/learn/historyculture/udhr.htm

Peace puts America between war work and new jobs

1. trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/128/special-message-congress-presenting-21-point-program-reconversion-period
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-6-45.htm

Home at last—for millions, not yet for all

1. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/points-system-us-armys-demobilization
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobilization_of_United_States_Armed_Forces_after_World_War_II
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-20-45.htm

Congress goes home for Christmas with the peace half made

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-20-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/10-27-45.htm
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/8-15-45.htm
4. history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/un
5. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-28-45.htm

Peace brings a wave of strikes: a quarter of a million are walking picket lines

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/10-3-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/10-29-45.htm
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/7-3-45.htm

Peace puts labor and industry at the same table

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-5-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-15-45.htm
3. trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/128/special-message-congress-presenting-21-point-program-reconversion-period

Senate puts America behind the United Nations

1. history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/un
2. unfoundation.org/blog/post/70-years-since-senate-ratification-of-the-un-charter/
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Johnson

Fog hides tower; bomber tears into Empire State

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/7-28-45.htm

Japanese balloon kills six in Oregon

1. history.com/articles/japans-killer-wwii-balloons
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

Wainwright comes home to the cheers

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-10-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_M._Wainwright_IV

Truman puts a Republican on the Supreme Court

1. fjc.gov/node/1378621
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman

The Un-American committee is now a fixture of the House

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/10-29-45.htm
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/7-28-45.htm
4. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/1-3-45.htm

Congress asks who failed at Pearl Harbor

1. archives.gov/legislative/features/pearl-harbor
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_Joint_Committee_on_the_Investigation_of_the_Pearl_Harbor_Attack
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/8-30-45.htm
4. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-15-45.htm
5. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-28-45.htm

The camps empty, but home is not yet home

1. encyclopedia.densho.org/War_Relocation_Authority/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/7-3-45.htm

Six Navy planes and 27 men vanish off Florida

1. nasflmuseum.com/taylor.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

Marshall takes on China's dangerous peace

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-28-45.htm
2. ww2db.com/event/today/11/27/1945

A million hear Truman set America’s course

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/10-27-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/10-29-45.htm

Third Army loses General Patton

1. army.mil/article/289585/the_80th_anniversary_of_gen_pattons_final_battle
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

The GIs lose the man who told their war

1. britannica.com/biography/Ernie-Pyle
2. ebsco.com/research-starters/military-history-and-science/war-correspondent-pyle-dies-combat

Eight turns in a nation at war

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/1-3-45.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/1-20-45.htm
4. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/6-19-45.htm
5. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/4-16-45.htm
6. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/7-3-45.htm

The last week of the year

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-27-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-20-45.htm

The nation in December

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-21-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-22-45.htm
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-28-45.htm
4. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-29-45.htm
5. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-31-45.htm

Around the nation this year

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/6-7-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/6-8-45.htm
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-21-45.htm
4. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-20-45.htm
5. whenandwhereinboston.org/?p=63688

At Yalta, the Big Three shape victory and peace

1. history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf
2. avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/yalta.asp
3. britannica.com/event/Yalta-Conference
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

Poland's map and government remade at Yalta

1. avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/yalta.asp
2. history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

The bulge is nearly gone; the road turns toward Germany

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge
2. britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Bulge

Iwo secured at a terrible price

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima
2. britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Iwo-Jima

Okinawa is won at a heavy price

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa
2. britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Okinawa

Freedom came to the camps—and still the prisoners died

1. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/liberation-of-nazi-camps
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

Dresden's crowded heart consumed by fire

1. raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/air-historical-branch/second-world-war-campaign-narratives/raf-in-the-bombing-offensive-against-germany-vol-vi-the-final-phase-march-1944-may-1945/
2. raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/air-historical-branch/ahb-translations-from-captured-german-documents/reports-of-physical-damage-resulting-from-allied-air-attacks-on-germany-1945/
3. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/apocalypse-dresden-february-1945

Manila is free, but the city lies broken

1. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/manila-1945-destruction-pearl-orient-review-rampage-macarthur-yamashita-and-battle
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_(1945)

Fire raid burns the heart of Tokyo

1. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/hellfire-earth-operation-meetinghouse
2. history.com/this-day-in-history/march-9/firebombing-of-tokyo

Rangoon retaken, and the Japanese are gone

1. naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1945.htm
2. britannica.com/place/Yangon
3. aviation-defence-universe.com/operation-dracula-indian-forces-captured-rangoon-burma-japanese

Slim breaks the Japanese hold on central Burma

1. nam.ac.uk/explore/far-east-campaign
2. nam.ac.uk/explore/march-1945
3. collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1974-09-79-112&page=2&pos=6&q=acc%3D1974-09-79%26page%3D2%26resultsDisplay%3Dlist%26searchType%3Dsimple%26simpleText%3D%26themeID%3D&total=40

MacArthur declares the Philippines liberated

1. history.army.mil/portals/143/Images/Publications/catalog/72-40.pdf
2. history.army.mil/portals/143/Images/Publications/catalog/5-9.pdf
3. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/liberation-philippines-luzon-leyte

One American general now rules Japan, and he is remaking it from the ground up

1. history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction
2. pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/macarthur-emperor-hirohito-and-pm-yoshida
3. trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/98-2445

Chiang and Mao agree to talk peace

1. history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/chinese-rev
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Tenth_Agreement

Göring and twenty-one others go on trial

1. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/international-military-tribunal-at-nuremberg
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

U-boat sunk off Block Island

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Point_Judith
2. uboat.net/boats/u853.htm

The prosecutor of Murder, Inc., is New York's new mayor

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-7-45.htm
2. nyirishhistory.us/?p=6912

Cleveland keeps Mayor Burke for a full term

1. case.edu/ech/articles/b/burke-thomas-aloysius
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Cleveland_mayoral_election

A witness is slain on a Michigan road

1. bentley.umich.edu/about/collections-magazine/fall-2016/a-michigan-murder/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Hooper

Missouri adopts a new constitution

1. sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Archives/findingaids/RG000.005_Pubs.pdf
2. guides.loc.gov/law-us-missouri/constitution
3. dese.mo.gov/sites/g/files/zuston521/files/media/pdf/2024/06/MissouriConstitutionAdaptedTimelineofHistoricMissouri.pdf

Detroit returns Jeffries to City Hall

1. oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn97071090/1945-11-07/ed-1/seq-1.pdf
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Detroit_mayoral_election

Three secret cities come into the light

1. home.nps.gov/mapr/learn/historyculture/secretcities.htm
2. osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/publications/LANLBeginningofEraPart1.pdf
3. govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D114-PURL-gpo107791/pdf/GOVPUB-D114-PURL-gpo107791.pdf

Mexican-descent children shut out of schools: fathers sue

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendez_v._Westminster
2. uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/background-mendez-v-westminster-re-enactment

Alaska outlaws the color line

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Equal_Rights_Act_of_1945
2. archives.alaska.gov/education/peratrovich.html

Hurricane crawls up the Texas coast, one of the worst in years

1. wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/txhur.pdf
2. newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn78002169/1945-08-29/ed-1/seq-1/
3. weather.gov/hgx/hurricanes_climatology_1940s

On the day the President died, a tornado kills scores in Antlers

1. weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-ok-f5tornadoes
2. weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-ok-deadliest
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

Coast to coast in 5 hours 17 minutes

1. thisdayinaviation.com/8-december-1945/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_XB-42_Mixmaster

Peace reaches the factory floor: half of 4,000,000 war workers let go

1. apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/1945/scb-1945-september.pdf
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board

Tires leave the ration book; motorists still wait

1. govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-PR32_4200-1047d95249033e6e95c00c064115000e/html/GOVPUB-PR32_4200-1047d95249033e6e95c00c064115000e.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Price_Administration

320,000 stay out at General Motors

1. michiganadvance.com/2023/11/21/on-this-day-in-1945-uaw-goes-on-strike-against-general-motors/
2. historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5138

The President asks higher wages, steady prices

1. presidency.ucsb.edu/node/230652
2. trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/158/statement-president-concerning-government-operation-petroleum-refineries

Stocks stand far higher at the end of the year of victory

1. fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/eccles/093_12_0006.pdf
2. federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/rptcongress/annual06/sec5/c1t08.htm

Two institutions open the work of peace

1. history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v01/d716
2. fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/bretton-woods-agreements-act-5824
3. imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/sup0998/14.htm
4. worldbank.org/en/archive/history/exhibits/75th-Anniversary-IBRD-Articles-of-Agreement-Ratification
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

A loan of $3.75 billion for Britain

1. api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1945/dec/06/anglo-american-economic-and-financial
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

The pipeline that armed the Allies is shut off a week after Japan gave in

1. history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v06/d55
2. api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1945/dec/06/anglo-american-economic-and-financial
3. trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/100/presidents-news-conference

Ford name passes to a new generation

1. detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/ford-ii-henry
2. thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/11223

New cars are back on sale, but the motorist must find one

1. curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-celebrating-v-j-day-when-cars-came-home-from-the-war
2. thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/11223
3. govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-PR32_4200-1047d95249033e6e95c00c064115000e/html/GOVPUB-PR32_4200-1047d95249033e6e95c00c064115000e.htm
4. apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/1945/scb-1945-september.pdf

The fountain pen loses its nib

1. encyclopedia.com/history/culture-magazines/ballpoint-pens
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

A steel spring walks downstairs, and 400 sell in ninety minutes

1. philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/slinky/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky

Victory Loan far passes its goal

1. fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/frbkcreview/rev_frbkc_1946_01.pdf
2. fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/ny%20circulars/1945_03013.pdf

Christmas trade runs ahead of last year

1. fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/frbkcreview/rev_frbkc_1946_01.pdf
2. apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/1945/scb-1945-september.pdf

Airliner crosses to England on wheels

1. smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/forgotten-first-flight-180975833/
2. snnairportgroup.ie/about-us/80-year-celebration/

The last Liberty ship is delivered in the name of a man who stayed at his post

1. history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/albert-m-boe.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Albert_M._Boe

Full employment bill goes to conference

1. trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/222/letter-senator-wagner-and-representative-manasco-concerning-full
2. presidency.ucsb.edu/node/230652

The new FM sets in hundreds of thousands of homes are cut off by a ruling that moves the band

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting_in_the_United_States
2. one-electron.com/Archives/Radio/RadioFM_History/RadioFM_History.html

Four great family fortunes frozen: MacArthur orders the Japanese trusts broken up

1. jahis.law.nagoya-u.ac.jp/scapindb/docs/scapin-244
2. sumitomo.gr.jp/english/history/s_history/rebirth

Business in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Frazer
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1945
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Price_Administration
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board

The atom's secret world opens to the public

1. nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/atomic-energy-military-purposes-smyth-report
2. atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/smyth-report/index.html

A commission for the atom

1. presidency.ucsb.edu/node/230993
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States

The bomb's makers organize

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_American_Scientists
2. atomicarchive.com/history/manhattan-project/p6s7.html

The radar laboratory closes

1. libraries.mit.edu/150books/?p=1642
2. ll.mit.edu/about/history/mit-radiation-laboratory
3. encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/physics-biographies/isidor-isaac-rabi

'Funny fuze': the radio in the shell's nose is a secret no more

1. carnegiescience.edu/news/developing-proximity-fuze
2. smecc.org/radio_proximity_fuzes.htm

Nobel prize for penicillin

1. nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/summary/
2. ars.usda.gov/midwest-area/peoria-il/national-center-for-agricultural-utilization-research/docs/penicillin-opening-the-era-of-antibiotics/

A scholar who left Europe when invasion seemed near wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

1. nature.com/articles/156657c0
2. nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1945/pauli/facts/
3. nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1945/virtanen/facts/

Bong, the Ace of Aces, dies testing the Army's new jet

1. thisdayinaviation.com/6-august-1945/
2. pacificwrecks.com/people/veterans/bong/

Britain's jet flies 606 miles an hour, faster than any plane on record

1. manstonhistory.org.uk/?p=7559
2. vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/today-in-aviation-history-gloster-meteor-first-jet-to-break-world-speed-record.html

Helicopter lifts barge crew off a reef

1. sikorskyarchives.com/?p=13731
2. ww2db.com/event/today/11/29/1945

Dr. Bush's machine to remember for us

1. www2.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/470/vbush.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think

Harvard's five-ton calculator works for the Navy

1. historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=624
2. info.computer.org/profiles/howard-aiken

Grand Rapids puts fluoride in its water to spare its children's teeth

1. cdc.gov/fluoridation/timeline-for-community-water-fluoridation/index.html
2. wgvunews.org/news/2024-04-25/historical-marker-preserves-story-of-grand-rapids-crucial-role-addressing-tooth-decay-the-in-the-1940s

Dr. Goddard, the rocket man, dies at 62

1. goddardmemorial.org/Goddard/timeline.html
2. nss.org/goddards-first-liquid-fueled-rocket-turns-100/
3. commons.clarku.edu/goddardfilm/10/

Science won the war; Dr. Bush asks the nation to keep paying for it in peace

1. ia801304.us.archive.org/29/items/scienceendlessfr00unit/scienceendlessfr00unit_hocr.html
2. carnegiescience.edu/news/vannevar-bush-and-endless-frontier

A child asks, a scientist answers: two new elements are told first to the Quiz Kids

1. edu.rsc.org/elements/americium/2020001.article
2. periodic.lanl.gov/95.shtml

Soldiers roll up their sleeves against influenza

1. heritage.umich.edu/stories/the-first-flu-shot
2. archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pandemic-timeline-1930-and-beyond.htm

DDT goes on sale to the public

1. pctonline.com/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-the-wonder-insecticide
2. whatismissing.org/content/ddt-becomes-available-for-civilian-use_hist-4227
3. nal.usda.gov/sites/default/files/speccoll_guides/c210_Knipling_biographicalsketch.pdf

Radio relays in the sky

1. lakdiva.org.lk/clarke/1945ww/1945ww_oct_305-308.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

Science in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellapragada_Subbarow

Two giants of science are gone: Morgan of the gene, Geiger of the counter

1. nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1933/morgan/facts/
2. aps.org/publications/apsnews/201206/physicshistory.cfm
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hunt_Morgan

A way past the cyclotron's limit

1. nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1951/mcmillan/biographical/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron

A drug from the soil gives doctors their first hope against tuberculosis

1. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21006282/
2. sebs.rutgers.edu/waksman-museum/streptomycin
3. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/discoverys-edge-first-cure-with-a-new-drug/

Bell's new helicopter takes the air, built for work, not for show

1. history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nnam/education/articles/aircraft-in-the-spotlight/sioux-detail.html
2. airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/bell-model-30-ship-1a-genevieve/nasm_A19650240000
3. airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/bell-h-13j/nasm_A19690013000

Nations sign up against hunger: 34 found the Food and Agriculture Organization

1. fao.org/4/p4228e/P4228E04.htm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization

The food investigator takes over Agriculture

1. trumanlibrary.gov/library/personal-papers/clinton-p-anderson-papers
2. millercenter.org/node/936
3. mocat.library.unt.edu/catalog/605-ch397

Farms bring in another great crop

1. esmis.nal.usda.gov/publication/crop-production-annual-summary/1945-12-01
2. esmis.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/release-files/cz30ps64c/0c483m72r/xw42nb46c/WHS-07-16-1945.pdf
3. nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/croptr11.pdf

New York climbs the stairs

1. seiu32bj.org/history
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-29-45.htm
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Strikes

Longshoremen who defied their own union go back to the piers

1. time.com/archive/6774833/national-affairs-the-way-things-are-going/
2. lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/?p=127945

Unions of 55 nations form one federation

1. wftucentral.org/history/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federation_of_Trade_Unions

Picket lines and an early frost: farm and labor in brief

1. time.com/archive/6774833/national-affairs-the-way-things-are-going/
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-29-45.htm

Tigers win the Series

1. baseball-reference.com/postseason/1945_WS.shtml
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_World_Series
3. sabr.org/bioproj/person/hank-borowy/

The Series in figures

1. baseball-reference.com/postseason/1945_WS.shtml
2. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1945_World_Series

Greenberg back, homers

1. sabr.org/gamesproj/game/july-1-1945-tigers-hank-greenberg-returns-to-baseball/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Detroit_Tigers_season

Newhouser, the pennant-winner, is most valuable again

1. baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1945.shtml
2. baseball-reference.com/players/b/bentoal01.shtml

Cubs hold off Cardinals

1. baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1945.shtml
2. sabr.org/bioproj/person/hank-borowy/

Cavarretta, the Cubs' batting king, is voted National League's most valuable man

1. baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1945.shtml
2. baseball-reference.com/postseason/1945_WS.shtml
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Chicago_Cubs_season
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_World_Series
5. sabr.org/journal/article/tommy-holmes-37-game-hitting-streak

Ten old-timers are voted into the Hall of Fame

1. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1945_Hall_of_Fame_Election
2. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/clarke-fred
3. tht.fangraphs.com/this-annotated-week-in-baseball-history-april-19-april-25-1945
4. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/collins-jimmy
5. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/robinson-wilbert
6. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/bresnahan-roger
7. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/jennings-hughie
8. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/brouthers-dan
9. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/delahanty-ed
10. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/duffy-hugh
11. baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/past-inductions/1942-1949

Greenberg's ninth-inning blow brings Detroit the flag

1. baseballhall.org/discover/Final-call-Legends-thrive-on-season%27s-last-day
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Detroit_Tigers_season
3. baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1945.shtml
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Major_League_Baseball_season

Robinson signs with Montreal, and baseball's color line faces its test

1. britannica.com/biography/Jackie-Robinson
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Major_League_Baseball_season

Buckeyes sweep the Grays and are champions of Negro baseball

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Negro_World_Series
2. baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/1945.shtml

One arm, 77 games: Pete Gray finishes a season with the Browns

1. sabr.org/bioproj/person/pete-gray/
2. baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1945.shtml

New owners, fourth place

1. sabr.org/bioproj/person/larry-macphail/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_New_York_Yankees_season
3. baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1945.shtml

Holmes hits in 37 straight

1. sabr.org/journal/article/tommy-holmes-37-game-hitting-streak
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Major_League_Baseball_season

Louisville, third in its league, wins the Little World Series

1. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1945
2. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Nemo_Leibold
3. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1945_IL
4. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1945_PCL

Rockford's girls win the pennant and the play-off

1. aagpbl.org/seasons/1945
2. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1945_AAGPBL
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_All-American_Girls_Professional_Baseball_League_season
4. aagpbl.org/articles/show/35
5. aagpbl.org/profiles/carolyn-india-morris/172
6. aagpbl.org/history/rules-of-play

Chandler is commissioner

1. sabr.org/bioproj/person/happy-chandler/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Major_League_Baseball_season

Feller, home from the Navy, strikes out twelve

1. sabr.org/gamesproj/game/august-24-1945-bob-feller-returns-to-baseball-after-world-war-ii/
2. baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/feller_bob.htm

The stars come home

1. baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/dimaggio_joe.htm
2. baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/feller_bob.htm
3. sabr.org/gamesproj/game/july-1-1945-tigers-hank-greenberg-returns-to-baseball/
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Detroit_Tigers_season
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Louis
6. sabr.org/gamesproj/game/august-24-1945-bob-feller-returns-to-baseball-after-world-war-ii/
7. sabr.org/bioproj/person/larry-macphail/
8. baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/williams_ted.htm

Nelson closes his wonder year with victory No. 18

1. britannica.com/biography/Byron-Nelson
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Nelson

Hogan is back from the Army and has won five

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hogan
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Nelson
3. britannica.com/biography/Byron-Nelson

Babe Zaharias, back among the amateurs, wins the Western

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias
2. britannica.com/biography/Babe-Didrikson-Zaharias
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_sports

How the clubs finished

1. baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1945.shtml
2. baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1945.shtml
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Major_League_Baseball_season

Notes of the diamond

1. baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/1945.shtml
2. sabr.org/journal/article/tommy-holmes-37-game-hitting-streak
3. sabr.org/journal/article/1944-winter-meetings-a-new-era-without-landis/
4. baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Executive_of_the_Year
5. baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_snmy.shtml

Duke beats Alabama in the last minute as Trojans blank Tennessee

1. allstatesugarbowl.org/sports/2022/4/15/11th-annual-sugar-bowl-classic-january-1-1945.aspx
2. sports-reference.com/cfb/years/1944-bowls.html
3. rosebowlgame.com/honors/rose-bowl-hall-of-fame/john-ferraro/55
4. rosebowlgame.com/honors/rose-bowl-hall-of-fame/jim-hardy/40

Army closes another perfect season

1. heisman.com/heisman-winners/felix-doc-blanchard/
2. heisman.com/heisman-winners/glenn-davis/

Blanchard wins the Heisman

1. heisman.com/heisman-winners/felix-doc-blanchard/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Army_Cadets_football_team

Alabama goes to Pasadena

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Rose_Bowl
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_college_football_season
3. heisman.com/heisman-winners/felix-doc-blanchard/

Rams win the title by a point as Baugh's pass hits the goal post

1. pro-football-reference.com/years/1945/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_NFL_Championship_Game

The professional league

1. pro-football-reference.com/years/1945/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_sports

The Giants honor two of their own who fell

1. profootballresearchers.com/archives/Website_Files/Coffin_Corner/09-05-301.pdf
2. giants.com/news/memorial-day-2020-medal-of-honor-jack-lummus-al-blozis-giants-ring-of-honor
3. baseballhall.org/discover/gedeon-and-oneill-made-ultimate-sacrifice-in-world-war-two
4. hoyafootball.com/features/blozis.htm

The champion comes home: Joe Louis leaves the Army with a medal for lifting soldiers' spirits

1. britannica.com/biography/Joe-Louis
2. army.togetherweserved.com/profile/259081
3. army.mil/article/121005/soldier_champ_joe_louis_sacrificed_much_for_his_country

Graziano, behind on points, knocks out Harold Green

1. britannica.com/biography/Rocky-Graziano
2. boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Rocky_Graziano_vs._Harold_Green_(3rd_meeting)
3. boxingonly.net/profile/freddie-cochrane
4. ringtv.com/?p=122659

Robinson outlasts LaMotta again, and the crowd boos

1. boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Sugar_Ray_Robinson_vs._Jake_LaMotta_(5th_meeting)
2. boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Sugar_Ray_Robinson_vs._Jake_LaMotta_(4th_meeting)
3. boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Sugar_Ray_Robinson
4. origin.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/when_sugar_ray_robinson_and_jake_lamotta_made_history_in_detroit
5. newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Sugar_Ray_Robinson

Notes of the ring

1. britannica.com/biography/Joe-Louis
2. boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Fight:21015
3. boxingonly.net/history/willie-pep-vs-phil-terranova-19th-february-1945
4. boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Rocky_Graziano_vs._Harold_Green_(3rd_meeting)
5. boxingonly.net/profile/freddie-cochrane

Hoop Jr. brings the Derby back through the mud

1. pastthewire.com/roses-bloom-even-in-the-gray-hoop-jr-and-the-delayed-derby
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Kentucky_Derby

Busher beats the colts

1. racingmuseum.org/node/551
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busher_(horse)

Notes of the turf

1. pastthewire.com/roses-bloom-even-in-the-gray-hoop-jr-and-the-delayed-derby
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_(horse)
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Kentucky_Derby
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_sports

Aggies take the court title

1. okstate.com/sports/2015/3/17/GEN_20140101138
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_NCAA_basketball_tournament
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_National_Invitation_Tournament

Mikan, six feet ten in spectacles, scores 53 by himself

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mikan
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_National_Invitation_Tournament
3. okstate.com/sports/2015/3/17/GEN_20140101138

Leafs win the Stanley Cup

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Stanley_Cup_Final
2. hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_1945.html

Richard scores fifty goals in fifty games, a goal for every night of the season

1. hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_1945.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Stanley_Cup_Final

Cleveland takes the Calder Cup and St. Michael's the Memorial

1. theahl.com/championship-teams
2. icehockey.fandom.com/wiki/1944%E2%80%9345_AHL_season
3. internationalhockeywiki.com/ihw/index.php/Memorial_Cup
4. vernonjrahockey.ca/league/cups/memorial_cup_history.html
5. chl.ca/article/ninety-years-ninety-memorial-cups-ninety-stories

Sergeant Parker repeats, winning a 26-game first set

1. tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/frank-parker
2. tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/Bill-Talbert
3. historic-uk.com/CultureUK/The-History-of-the-Wimbledon-Tennis-Championships/

Kelley wins the Marathon again after ten years

1. bostonlog.com/year-by-year-synopsis-of-the-boston-marathon-from-1897-to-1985-prepared-distributed-by-the-baa-for-the-90th-race-3/
2. usatf.org/athlete-bios/john-a-kelley
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Kelley

Hagg runs the mile in 4:01.4, nearer than any man to four minutes

1. worldathletics.org/heritage/news/gunder-hagg-mile-world-record
2. britannica.com/print/article/251531

Hulman buys the Speedway

1. indianapolismotorspeedway.com/history/owners
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hulman
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_sports

Moscow Dynamo unbeaten in Britain

1. en.fcdynamo.ru/news/33-dnia-potriassix-futbolnyi-mir-80-let-s-nacala-turne-dynamo-po-velikobritanii/
2. scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk/news/ibrox-1945-when-rangers-tackled-the-might-of-moscow-dynamo/

Moscow beats America at chess, by radio

1. chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=82306
2. gambiter.com/chess/tournaments/USA-USSR_radio_chess_match_1945.html
3. chess.com/terms/chess-olympiad

Sport in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_sports
2. indianapolismotorspeedway.com/history/owners

Father O'Malley is back, and Ingrid Bergman is a nun who boxes

1. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24326
2. oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Academy_Awards

"Going My Way" sweeps Hollywood

1. oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Academy_Awards

A long weekend at the bottom of a bottle

1. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24487
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Weekend_(film)

Ernie Pyle's soldiers come to the screen

1. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24602
2. tcm.com/articles/375/the-story-of-g-i-joe

Miss Crawford in "Mildred Pierce"

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Pierce_(film)
2. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24502

A doctor falls for a man who may be a killer, and only his dreams can save him

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound_(1945_film)
2. afi.com/news/spellbound-afi-movie-club/
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_film

Rodgers and Hammerstein go to the fair, in Technicolor

1. tcm.com/articles/86567/state-fair-1945
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Fair_(1945_film)

The little boats that carried MacArthur out: "They Were Expendable" opens

1. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24619
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Were_Expendable

Gene Kelly dances with a mouse

1. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24312
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_film

Rome film shot in ruins

1. britannica.com/topic/Open-City
2. criterion.com/current/posts/1356-rome-open-city-a-star-is-born

The screen in brief

1. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24097
2. findagrave.com/memorial/9020/mark-sandrich
3. encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/dickson-gloria-1916-1945
4. britannica.com/biography/Alla-Nazimova
5. britannica.com/biography/Robert-Benchley

David Lean's 'Brief Encounter' opens in London: two strangers in a railway refreshment room

1. britannica.com/biography/David-Lean
2. tcm.com/articles/behind-the-classics/118582/behind-the-classics-brief-encounter-1945

Mr. Orwell's farm

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
2. britannica.com/topic/Animal-Farm
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_literature

A Negro boyhood in the South: a book club chooses it, a Senator calls it obscene

1. britannica.com/topic/Black-Boy
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Boy
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_literature

A mouse-sized son and other books for children

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Little
2. ala.org/winner/rabbit-hill
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_literature

Mr. Steinbeck's Monterey: a party for Doc goes wrong

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannery_Row_(novel)
2. britannica.com/topic/Cannery-Row

Waugh turns to a Catholic house

1. britannica.com/biography/Evelyn-Waugh
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brideshead_Revisited

Pulitzers honor the war's witnesses—and two stories of hope

1. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1945
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_literature

Willie and Joe between covers

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mauldin
2. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1945

Love, loss and one day back on earth in "Carousel"

1. ibdb.com/broadway-production/carousel-1694
2. breakingcharacter.com/the-road-to-carousel/
3. rodgersandhammerstein.com/carousel-synopsis/

A memory play from St. Louis

1. ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-glass-menagerie-1691
2. news.wttw.com/node/17246
3. evastudio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/the_glass_menagerie_messy_full_text.pdf

The season in books

1. britannica.com/biography/Gabriela-Mistral
2. labyrinthbooks.com/the-carrot-seed-75th-anniversary
3. britannica.com/topic/Cannery-Row
4. britannica.com/print/article/1981700
5. britannica.com/biography/Carlo-Levi
6. britannica.com/topic/Les-chemins-de-la-liberte
7. burnsiderarebooks.com/pages/books/140947104/agatha-christie/sparkling-cyanide

What would the Presidency cost an honest businessman? Broadway laughs at the answer

1. ibdb.com/broadway-production/state-of-the-union-1742
2. playbill.com/production/state-of-the-union-hudson-theatre-vault-0000005856

The prize play has a rabbit in it, and nobody sees him

1. ibdb.com/broadway-production/harvey-1593
2. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1945
3. ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/harvey-mary-chase

The radio carried grief, horror and victory

1. cbsnews.com/news/buchenwald-camp-liberation-wwii-edward-r-murrow-80-years-later
2. museum.tv/radio-encyclopedia-3/daly-john-charles

No papers, so the Mayor reads the funnies to New York's children

1. archives.nyc/blog/2025/10/31/mayor-laguardia-reads-the-comics
2. time.com/archive/6605955/the-press-manhattan-in-the-dark/

A Bronx girl is Miss America

1. jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/myerson-bess
2. britannica.com/biography/Bess-Myerson
3. jwa.org/thisweek/sep/08/1945/bess-myerson

Peter Grimes brings Sadler's Wells back to life

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_music
3. britannica.com/topic/Peter-Grimes

The songs on the machines

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_music
2. oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945

A nation's pictures rise from the dark

1. https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2014/01/27/the-monuments-men-and-the-recovery-of-the-art-in-the-merkers-salt-mine-april-1945: National Archives, The Text Message blog
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945

Painter says he made the Goering Vermeer

1. essentialvermeer.com/misc/van_meegeren.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_van_Meegeren

Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer, dies in New York at 64

1. britannica.com/biography/Bela-Bartok
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k

Jerome Kern is dead at 60

1. britannica.com/biography/Jerome-Kern
2. encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-history-composers-and-performers-biographies/jerome-kern
3. preserveoldbroadway.org/jerome-kern-1885-1945-bio/

Robert Benchley, humorist of cheerful confusion, dies at 56

1. britannica.com/biography/Robert-Benchley
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benchley

Deaths of the year: Johnson, McCain and a flag raiser of Iwo Jima

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/8-7-45.htm
2. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-6-45.htm
3. senate.gov/senators/FeaturedBios/Featured_Bio_Johnson_Hiram.htm
4. usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/People/Whos-Who-in-Marine-Corps-History/Scannell-Upshur/Private-First-Class-Franklin-Runyon-Sousley/

Notable deaths of 1945: a President, a war correspondent and a long roll of letters

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_literature
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_music
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_film
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_the_United_States
5. britannica.com/biography/Bela-Bartok
6. britannica.com/biography/Jerome-Kern
7. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24602

The ration book goes in the drawer

1. https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068401/1945-08-15/ed-1/seq-1/: Henderson (N.C.) Daily Dispatch, August 15, 1945, page 1
2. nbcnews.com/id/wbna10040842
3. smithsonianmag.com/history/shoe-rationing-wwii-america-180968428
4. m.ww2db.com/event/today/11/23/1945
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States

The long road home runs through the sea

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Magic_Carpet
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted_Service_Rating_Score
3. m.ww2db.com/event/today/11/23/1945

Ike comes home to Abilene

1. legion.org/information-center/news/honor/2021/july/our-wwii-story-eisenhower-comes-home
2. home.nps.gov/places/ddem-homecoming-speech.htm
3. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/6-19-45.htm

The first Thanksgiving of peace: "our victory, absolute and final"

1. trumanlibraryinstitute.org/giving-thanks-in-1945/
2. calendar-365.com/holidays/1945.html
3. nbcnews.com/id/wbna10040842

The victory gardens' harvest

1. nps.gov/articles/000/victory-gardens-on-the-world-war-ii-home-front.htm
2. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/298347: Stumpp & Walter Co., Popular and newer varieties of vegetables for 1945 victory garden (1945), from the USDA National Agricultural Library
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden

Thousands in line for nylons

1. smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/stocking-series-part-1-wartime-rationing-and-nylon-riots-25391066/
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon_riots

A glass roof on the Burlington: riders go up for a view on every side

1. vistadome.com/vistadome/
2. historyharvest.unl.edu/exhibits/show/nebraska_city_2010/item/2

The G.I. Bill: school, a home and a check for the man who comes back

1. archives.gov/milestone-documents/servicemens-readjustment-act
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill

Roosevelt's face will go on the dime

1. usmint.gov/learn/coins-and-medals/circulating-coins/dime.html
2. usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/history-of-presidents-on-our-coins

"A tragic Christmas" for the homeless veteran

1. wjcash.org/WJCash13/Charlotte.News.Articles/12-20-45.htm
2. trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/128/special-message-congress-presenting-21-point-program-reconversion-period

Less sugar in the bowl, and less for the jars

1. nps.gov/articles/000/sugar-the-first-and-last-food-rationed-on-the-world-war-ii-home-front.htm
2. https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn82007642/1945-03-15/ed-1/seq-6/: Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.), March 15, 1945, page 6, "The Facts About Sugar"

Keep the grease can by the stove

1. https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn97064546/1945-03-02/ed-1/seq-4/: The Perquimans Weekly (Hertford, N.C.), March 2, 1945, page 4, War Food Administration notice on household fats
2. exhibits.usu.edu/exhibits/show/foodwaste/timeline/wwii

A picture magazine for Negro America

1. searchablemuseum.com/johnson-publishing-company-image-power/
2. encyclopedia.com/history/culture-magazines/ebony
3. myauctionfinds.com/2019/04/03/my-first-look-at-ebonys-first-issue-nov-1945/
4. britannica.com/topic/Ebony-American-magazine

Glenn Miller's band plays its last, without him

1. boundarystones.weta.org/2017/11/09/glenn-millers-army-air-force-band-disbands
2. dennismspragg.com/glenn-miller-disappearance/
3. text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2024/12/24/remembering-major-alton-glenn-miller-1904-1944/
4. airandspaceforces.com/article/1113miller/
5. armyaircorpsmuseum.org/ray-mckinley.cfm
6. history.army.mil/Research/Reference-Topics/5-Star/

Music in brief

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_music
2. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1945

The 1945 quiz

1. oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945
2. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1945
3. ibdb.com/broadway-production/carousel-1694
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
5. smithsonianmag.com/history/shoe-rationing-wwii-america-180968428
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(play)
7. britannica.com/biography/Gabriela-Mistral
8. text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2014/01/27/the-monuments-men-and-the-recovery-of-the-art-in-the-merkers-salt-mine-april-1945
9. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24312
10. nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation
11. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen
12. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes

True or false?

1. oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945
2. https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068401/1945-08-15/ed-1/seq-1/: Henderson (N.C.) Daily Dispatch, August 15, 1945, page 1
3. nbcnews.com/id/wbna10040842
4. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24619
5. ibdb.com/broadway-production/harvey-1593
6. eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE1901-2000.html
7. trumanlibraryinstitute.org/giving-thanks-in-1945/
8. news.wttw.com/2014/12/18/when-tennessee-came-chicago
9. penguin.co.uk/books/1042943/animal-farm/
10. newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068401/1945-08-15/ed-1/seq-1/

Who was it?

1. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24602
2. essentialvermeer.com/misc/van_meegeren.html
3. cbsnews.com/news/buchenwald-camp-liberation-wwii-edward-r-murrow-80-years-later
4. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24619
5. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1945
6. text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2014/01/27/the-monuments-men-and-the-recovery-of-the-art-in-the-merkers-salt-mine-april-1945
7. britannica.com/topic/Stuart-Little

The clocks go back to peace time

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States
2. calendar-365.com/holidays/1945.html

The sun goes dark over Montana

1. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE1901-2000.html: NASA, Catalog of Solar Eclipses 1901 to 2000
2. xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_19450709_pg01.html
3. eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/1901-2000/SE1945Jul09Tprime.html
4. timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/1945-july-9

Word ladders for the long evenings

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder

Three cryptograms

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_music
3. oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945
4. americanliterature.com/author/george-orwell/book/animal-farm/chapter-x

The answers

1. oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945
2. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1945
3. ibdb.com/broadway-production/carousel-1694
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
5. smithsonianmag.com/history/shoe-rationing-wwii-america-180968428
6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(play)
7. britannica.com/biography/Gabriela-Mistral
8. text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2014/01/27/the-monuments-men-and-the-recovery-of-the-art-in-the-merkers-salt-mine-april-1945
9. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24312
10. nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation
11. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen
12. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes
13. nbcnews.com/id/wbna10040842
14. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24619
15. ibdb.com/broadway-production/harvey-1593
16. eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE1901-2000.html
17. trumanlibraryinstitute.org/giving-thanks-in-1945/
18. news.wttw.com/2014/12/18/when-tennessee-came-chicago
19. penguin.co.uk/books/1042943/animal-farm/
20. newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068401/1945-08-15/ed-1/seq-1/
21. catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24602
22. essentialvermeer.com/misc/van_meegeren.html
23. cbsnews.com/news/buchenwald-camp-liberation-wwii-edward-r-murrow-80-years-later
24. britannica.com/topic/Stuart-Little
25. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States
26. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Academy_Awards
27. ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-glass-menagerie-1691
28. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie
29. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_(musical)
30. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k
31. calendar-365.com/holidays/1945.html
32. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder
33. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_in_music
34. americanliterature.com/author/george-orwell/book/animal-farm/chapter-x

Advertisements of 1945

1. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-08-15/ed-1/?sp=36
2. catalog.archives.gov/id/183507566
3. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-08-15/ed-1/?sp=9
4. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-08-15/ed-1/?sp=15
5. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-08-15/ed-1/?sp=31
6. catalog.archives.gov/id/514013
7. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-08-15/ed-1/?sp=39
8. catalog.archives.gov/id/515975
9. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-11-26/ed-1/?sp=26
10. catalog.archives.gov/id/513544
11. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-12-23/ed-1/?sp=62
12. catalog.archives.gov/id/515344
13. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-09-24/ed-1/?sp=16
14. loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-04-16/ed-1/?sp=26
15. catalog.archives.gov/id/515695

How the Courier works

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After 1945

1. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/points-system-us-armys-demobilization
2. press.princeton.edu/about/history/a-history-of-princeton-university-press

Next in the series: 1946

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