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1944: United States
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During 1944 Volume 12 of Econometrica was published, consisting of two regular issues, in January and April, a supplement in July, and a double issue, July–October, totalling 400 pages. The supplement contained a monograph on "The Probability Approach in Econometrics," by Trygve Haavelmo. The regular mailing list includes 258 subscribers, chiefly libraries, and 716 members of the Society, of whom 163 subscribers and 338 members are in the United States and the remainder in foreign countries. Because of the war it is impossible to mail copies to many of these countries, but a sufficient quantity is being printed to supply those who may wish to complete their files after the war.
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October 14, 1944: Field Marshall Rommel commits suicide. His only option is to face trial on conspiracy charges and then suffer death at the hands of his accusers. Suicide guaranteed that his family would not be hurt and that he would be given a state funeral.
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During the last part of 1944, materials were prepared for a conference (held in January, 1945 with a small number of statistical experts) on the problems described above of statistical inference in economic dynamics. The proceedings of the conference will be published as a monograph.
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Although the ship was not damaged by Japanese forces, the Monterey was one of several ships damaged by the typhoon that hit Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet on December 18–19, 1944. The Third Fleet lost three destroyers and over 800 men during the typhoon. The Monterey was damaged by a fire, which was started by several of the ship's aircraft tearing loose from their cables and colliding on the hanger deck. During the storm, Ford narrowly avoided becoming a casualty himself. As he was going to his battle station on the bridge of the ship in the early morning of December 18, the ship rolled twenty-five degrees, which caused Ford to lose his footing and slide toward the edge of the deck. The two-inch steel ridge around the edge of the carrier slowed him enough so he could roll, and he twisted into the catwalk below the deck.
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The Office of War Information revealed that the Germans had sunk over 22 million tons of Allied and neutral merchant shipping between September 1939 and January 1, 1944. Despite this staggering loss, the United States had replaced this tonnage, launching 4308 ships with a deadweight tonnage of over 44 million during the same period. By 1944, the Allies had achieved naval superiority in the Battle of the Atlantic, destroying over 500 U-boots.
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June 3, 1944: A train from Lyon arrives in Birkenau. One survivor, Freda Silberberg, states how it was the French that arrested her, not the Germans. Dr. Mengele selects Freda for his experiment pool.
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