Sun spots may have caused July disturbances in world
Washington diary links a surge in sun spot activity to July mayhem and political tension. The piece cites medical, scientific, and Smithsonian notes on ultraviolet rays affecting emotions, behavior, and even negotiations, while previewing a Department of Agriculture Year Book on grass and a survey of Fourth of July meanings.
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Washington
Haiti
New England
Joe Martin
Attleboro
Mass
Chicago
Jimmy Roosevelt
California
Roy Marshall
Fels Planetarium
Philadelphia
Hitler
Smithsonian
Congress
Shakespeare
Brutus
Department of Agriculture
Abraham Lincoln
Department
Alfred Stefferud
Government Printing Office
Berlin crisis and first peacetime draft loom in campaign
The Berlin blockade crisis hardens as Gen. Clay and Ambassador Murphy report to President Truman while the U S pledges to resist coercion but seeks to avoid war. Reinforcements to its air arm signal resolve. Draft begins August 30 with 9 5 million youths to register over 17 days, leading to a swift conscription of 25 year olds and others. campaign heats up as third and fourth parties nominate, Thurmond Wright ticket strong in Alabama and Mississippi.
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Russia
Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
Robert Murphy
Clay
Truman
Marshall
Army
Royall
United States
Europe
Kremlin
America
Congress
Henry Wallace
Glenn Taylor
Philadelphia
Birmingham
Ala
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Alabama
Food Stores Take Bigger Retail Share, Analysts Say
Department of commerce analysts report food stores now capture 27.6 cents of every retail dollar, up from 23.5 cents in 1940, indicating food outlets are outperforming other sectors in postwar commerce.
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Department of Commerce
Bright Sayings Of Oldsters From Leaders And Judges
A compilation of remarks attributed to Dorothy Kenyon, Sherman Minton, Winston Churchill, and Arthur W. Radford. The quotes address women's brains, unions and communism, Russian dictatorship under the Kremlin, and recalling wartime sacrifices at Corregidor.
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Dorothy Kenyon
New York City
U. S
United Nations’ Commission On Status of Women
Congress
Sherman Minton
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Russia
Kremlin
Ivan the Terrible
Winston Churchill
Corregidor
Arthur W. Radford
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Post
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Bill Schoentgen
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Josh Sergeant
New York Stock Exchange
Mississippi Valley
Fukui
Japan
Red Cross
Royal Air Force Field
Scampton
England
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