Byrnes modifies order to restore WLB authority to make adjustments to aid in war prosecution and correct gross inequities, provided such adjustments do not increase prices or production costs; reaffirms Little Steel formula; WLB and labor reaction

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1943Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (died 1992)^[†]

Mary Esther Wells was an American singer, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.

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1943World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.^[†]

Operation Vulcan was one of the last ground attacks by the Allied forces of the First Army against the Italian and German forces in Tunisia in the last Axis bridgeheads in North Africa, during the Tunisian campaign of the Second World War.

Headlines from May 13, 1943

AFRICAN WAR OVER; 110,000 of Captive Total Believed German -- Booty Is Huge FEW STILL RESISTING British and French Draw Ring Tighter Around Pocket in South AFRICAN WAR OVER; GERMANS GIVE UP

WPB RULES PLANTS AMPLE TO BEAT AXIS; Orders Halt on New War Facilities and Tools, to Increase Guns, Tanks WPB RULES PLANTS AMPLE TO BEAT AXIS

Von Arnim Is Biggest Prize of All In Allies' Bag of Dozen Generals; VON ARNIM IS PRIZE OF TUNISIAN BAG NAZI GENERAL CAPTURED IN TUNISIA

Marsala 'Wiped Off the Map'; Planes Leave Catania Aflame; MARSALA IN RUINS, CATANIA IS ABLAZE

BYRNES RESTORES WLB PAY CONTROL, MODIFYING ORDER; He Saves the Agency's Life by Permitting Rises if Costs and Prices Are Held LABOR AND BOARD PLEASED Former Leans to Compromise, and Resignations Are No Longer Called Likely Byrnes Restores Power of WLB To Make Adjustments in Wages

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