U.S. Flying Fortress bombs Rabaul airport
Damages runways and destroys at least two Jap planes on New Britain Island
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Gas ration plan looms
Filling stations will get less pending printing of cards
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Labor speeds 200 ships
Pledges not to strike to rush construction of new vessels
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Japanese claim tanker, freighter
Subs reported sinking two ships off California
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Sales tax is pressed
Business organizations urge Congress to pass general federal levy
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More aliens rounded up
Buddhist priests teachers among many arrested
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Garment industry facing shutdown
La Guardia intervention sought during dispute
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Heavy bombers go on assembly line
Move continually first time at San Diego plant
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15,000 women work in plane plants
Number will be raised weekly, Chamber says
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25 aliens arrested at Philadelphia store
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Reading Eagle (March 17, 1942)
MacARTHUR FLIES TO AUSTRALIA TO COMMAND ALL ALLIED FORCES
Staff, family arrive safely with general
Colonel Philippines to lead drive to halt Japs; shift ordered by FDR
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Draft lottery will affect 15,931 here
Drawing will determine order in which U.S. will call registrants
Starts at 6 p.m.
10 Reading and Berks boards post lists of serial numbers
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Pinball games join production ban list
Weighing machines and jukeboxes affected
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Norway ports closed; Nazis may hit Iceland
Germans also seen preparing for assault on U.S.-British supply lines to Russia; warships, including Tirpitz, massed
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Scouts flee gunfire trap
Master says he with 20 boys were ‘held’ by 2 men in canyon
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Tornado toll is 132 dead, 1,000 injured
Property damage of millions reported in seven states
Aid sent to zone
Mississippi hardest hit as storms rip over 600-mile long strip
By the Associated Press
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Uruguay ship torpedoed
Some of crew rescued; attack follows sinking of Chilean freighter
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Labor faces war curbs
Congress reacts quickly to public cry for faster production
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British acclaim choice of MacArthur as chief
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Japan wiped off map – but it’s only station
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14 survivors of U.S. ship hit off Atlantic City reach NY
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U.S. troops in Australia
Land in ‘considerable numbers,’ says Stimson in formal statement
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Allies mass great force in Australia
Arrival of Yanks bolsters resistance to Japs
By Harold Guard
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