For industry the outlook is approximately this: In American enterprises ranging from small machine shops to the United States Steel Company peace meant that wartime business routines had to be scrapped. In a single move ten days ago WPB had swept away 210...

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1945Tom Ridge, American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security^[†]

Thomas Joseph Ridge is an American politician and author who served in the George W. Bush administration as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003 and as the United States secretary of homeland security from 2003 to 2005. He was the first person to hold either office. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and as the 43rd governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001.

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1945Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (born 1890)^[†]

Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.

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NYACK SCHOOL TO EXPAND; Buys the Banac Estate Extending to the Hudson River

BRADEN PROMOTED TO BE BYRNES AIDE; ROCKEFELLER QUITS; IN STATE DEPT. SHIFT

U.S. WARSHIPS ENTER BAY BELOW TOKYO WHEN TYPHOONS DELAY OUR LANDINGS; CHIANG'S FORCES IN NANKING, SHANGHAI; DISCUSSION ENDED IN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

SOFIA DELAYS VOTE AT ALLIES' BEHEST; Bulgarian Decision Follows Sharp U.S., British Notes-- London, Washington Elated

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