The reprint was shrunk to two/thirds the size of the 2011 page, and newspaper pages were considerably bigger in 1941 than they are today. That made the print about too small to read, at least with my old eyes.
The Tribune did highlight some of the articles and items on the page.
About the 15 more shopping days to Christmas: The major news event failed to knock the shopping reminder off the page, nor would it for the rest of the season. The countdown appeared every December throughout the war.
Where in the World about the Tribune announcing a color map of the new war zone to be printed the next day. Even before the US entry into the war, the Tribune had been full-color maps of war zones. Most Americans were very unfamiliar with names and places in the Pacific Ocean and Asia. The Tribune also ran a time zone chart.
RACIST SLUR IN THE HEADLINES: The shorthand "Japs" referring to the nation or an individual was commonly used in the Tribune until the late 1940s and occasionally into the 1950s. It was used often in headlines but not so much in the article.
According to Bill Yoshino, the Midwest Director of the Japanese American Citizens League, it was never an abbreviation and always carried a racist, derisive undertone.
War propaganda raised the usage to a new level rallying the nation and demonizing the Japanese.
Taking Us Back.
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