1942 – Old Magazine Articles

FDR’s Proposal to Limit Personal Income
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

By the end of the war, FDR’s administration had placed taxable personal income as high as 94%(!). His Brain Trust were all big believers in Federal intervention into the economy – offering all sorts of price freezes and wage freezes in order to limit competition during the Great depression (as if that was a good). As the war kicked-in to high gear, FDR installed a low ceiling upon all high-earners and capped their salaries at $25,000.00 per-year.

Click here to read about FDR’s airplane.

Air Corps Ordinance
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

Here is a short well-illustrated piece concerning the early WW II innovations in fighter-plane ammunition. The article goes into some detail concerning tracer bullets and the time fuse.

Bringing the African-Americans On-board
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

Attached is a small notice concerning the Office of War Information and the steps they took during the Summer of 1942 to ensure the patriotic enthusiasm of the African-American community in the war effort.

FDR’s Proposal to Limit Personal Income

By the end of the war, FDR’s administration had placed taxable personal income as high as 94%(!). His Brain Trust

Brazil’s German Problem
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

You can be sure that when Brazil declared war upon Nazi Germany in 1942, there was no talk of “our diversity is our strength” – for they were worried about the 1,000,000 Teuto-brasileiros (German-Brazilians) who dwelt among them who seldom, if ever, made much of an effort to assimilate:

“The Germans, in their towns and communities, have set up schools of their own, schools in which German teachers, with better equipment than the Brazilian national schools provide, have been preaching loyalty to the German fatherland… It was charged by investigators that German school children were being taught obedience to Hitler and the German clergymen were taking their texts from Mein Kampf.”

Preparing for Battle
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

“Brazil and the U.S.A. have signed a trade agreement whereby Brazil’s army gets needed war equipment in exchange for raw materials needed in the United States… During the last year, large quantities of arms and material have reached Brazil from the U.S. for development of defense at vital ports and construction of airdromes to guard Brazil’s 5,700 miles of seacoast.”

Rommel Returned to Where he Began
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

“Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Axis forces in Egypt have been beaten back by British guns and planes. A Cairo communique said yesterday that the German armored divisions had retreated west of the British minefields to the starting line of his offensive which opened a week ago… Captured Axis prisoner disclosed how Rommel had touched off the offensive last Monday with a proclamation to his men that “we are off to Cairo.'”

”Nazis Halted at Stalingrad”
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

“Stalingrad continued to hold today. For three days now the Nazis have been stopped on both the northwest and southwest approaches to the key industrial city on the Volga, loss of which would be a grave blow to the Soviet war effort… Today’s first Soviet communique indicated that Marshall von Bock continues to pour in more men, more tanks and more planes, trying to overwhelm the Russian defenders by sheer weight.”

The British Six-Pounder
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

“Six-pounder guns are being turned out in large numbers in one of the Royal Ordnance factories in England. Most of the workers who make them are women. The gun is highly mobile and is said to have a high rate of fire and remarkable armor penetration.”

Fighting in Winter
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

Within a few weeks, Winter again will be sweeping down on the greatest battlefield in history… At Leningrad, the Fall rains are almost over. Now comes a month of dangerously dry, clear weather and then the snow. The Moscow zone will be thickly carpeted in white in seven or eight weeks. Allied strategists hope that the second Russian war Winter will bring a repition of the first, when Soviet skill in cold weather fighting finally drove the Nazis back.

‘Tanks Spearhead Nazi Offensive”
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

The largest tank battle in history was fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. In April of 1943, 6,000 German and Soviet tanks, supported by some 2,000,000 infantrymen, had-at-it near the Russian city of Kursk. This article was written a year before the clash, and it informed the readers that armored engagements were becoming larger and larger with each one.

A New Kind of Naval Warfare
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

In the seven months since Pearl Harbor the aircraft carrier has replaced the battleship as the true capital ship of modern naval warfare. The carrier’s rise to power reached a crushing climax in the battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway – the two most decisive naval engagements of the war thus far. Opposing fleets only struck at each other with bomber and torpedo planes and never fired a shot except in self-defense against aircraft.

Equal Pay for Equal War Work
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

The War Labor Board has decreed ‘equal pay for equal work’ for women in war industry… George W. Taylor, WLB vice-chairman, wrote the decision and said that any other condition than that of pay equality was ‘not conducive to maximum production’.

Stalingrad Turns in Favor of Reds
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

At Stalingrad the imitative appears to be slowly shifting into the hands of the Russians…The Russian attack was reported to be growing in vigor and German counterthrusts were repulsed with heavy losses.

FDR’s Sense of Sympathy
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

When a 22-year-old expectant father wrote to President Roosevelt complaining that he’d been unemployed for four months, FDR wasted little time in contacting one of his alphabet agencies and seeing to it that the gent was offered a defense job.

Enemy Agents Sought Weather Info
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

Before the era of the World Wide Web, intelligence agencies had to rely on their own flunkies to gather all meteorological information they could find about a particular weather system; this explains why so many Axis spies were found with weather data among their possessions.

‘White Man’s War”
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

During the winter of 1942, Private Harry Carpenter, U.S Army, made a big honking mistake when he decided to declare that the current war was a white man’s war. Arrested by the MPs and carted-off to stand before Magistrate Thomas O’Hara, Carpenter found that he had reaped the whirlwind: he was charged with treason against the United States.

Bundist Arrested As Spy
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

Johannes Kroeger, ex-leader of the German-American Bund was picked up by the FBI in the Fall of 1942 for espionage. Employed as a bus driver on Long Island, New York, Kroeger would regularly carry the employees of the Republic Aviation Company to and from work. When pressed for details, the FBI remarked:

Workers in aviation plants talk too much.