United Nations Forum and Korean Front in Cold War Press
United Nations debate centers on Vishinsky demands for peace terms including China seat and veto limits. In Korea, 100000 Chinese and Korean Communists on a 60 mile line below the Yalu face advancing U.S. forces amid harsh winter. Russia accuses Japan of aiding Korea, citing a Sino Russian treaty and fears of broader intervention.
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Russia
Andrie Y. Vishinsky
United Nations General Assembly
Vishinsky
United Nations
China
U.N
Security Council
Trygve Lie
Stalin
Moscow
Lie
Korea
Yalu
Manchuria
U.S
Air defense HQ moved from New York to Colorado Springs
The air force shifts the U S defense nerve center for air attack from New York to Colorado Springs for safety. The move places the east and west air-defense commands under one center with about 800 personnel, Lt Gen Ennis C Whitehead in command.
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Air Force
New York
Colorado Springs
Colo
U. S
Atlantic Ocean
Russia
United States
Mitchell Field
Ennis C. White
European prewar production grows with American aid
Western Europe, aided by the United States, shows exports and industrial output rising above prewar levels under the Economic Cooperation Administration. Officials urge faster gains to sustain armament for anti communist defense and to strengthen Europe’s economic base for recovery.
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Asia
United States
China
Tibet
Nepal
U.S
France
Germany
Bordeaux
Europe
Kaiserlauten
Homburg
Saarbrucken
Western Europe
Economic Co-Operation Administration
West
E.C.A
Wholesale Prices Hit All Time High in November Week
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports wholesale prices at an all time high in mid November. The wholesale index rose 0.6 percent in one week and stood 8.7 percent above the June 20 level, before the Korean war. All commodities except farm products and foods again peaked, 9.3 percent above prewar levels. Hogs fell while steers rose to the 1950 high. Steel scrap edged up 60 cents per ton, rubber and tin prices fluctuated on war news.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Danish Clerk Conceived the Christmas Seal Idea
Danish postal clerk Eintr Holboell conceived Christmas seals in 1903 while sorting Copenhagen mail. The idea spread through clerks and customers, gained royal approval, and by 1904 four million seals were sold. Miss Emily Bissell later started U S efforts, raising $3000 instead of $300 and expanding a nationwide campaign aided by Leigh Hodges and E A Van Valkenburg.
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Eintr Holboell
Copenhagen
Christian
Queen Louise
Holboell
Emily Bissel
Red Cross
Philadelphia
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Philadelphia North American
Philadelphia North American. He Heard Miss Bissell
E. A. van Valkenburg
van Valkenburg
Hodges
Miss Bissell
First Christmas Card Designed in 1842
The first Yule card was designed in 1842 by William Maw Egley, a 16 year old London apprentice. He printed 100 copies to sell to friends but faced English ridicule and the idea was forgotten until 1941. Cards later grew into a $100 million annual industry employing 500,000 Americans.
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Olippayang
U.S
William Maw Egley
Prentice
London
England
William
Egley
British Museum
Dunce Cap The Capitelli in Italian Christmas feasts
A feature on Capitelli a Christmas dish in Italy served as small dunce cap shaped noodle dough canes filled with white chicken and chopped pork mixed with egg and spices. The plate includes Montarde de Cremona a mustard tinged sauce made from fruits mustard and spices described as a mustard which is not.
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Italy
Montarde de Cremona
Varied Christmas Weather Beliefs Across Old Saying
Readers hear a selection of traditional weather beliefs tied to Christmas. If sunshine through the apple tree on Christmas Day predicts a good crop next year, a warm Christmas signals a cold winter, and a green Christmas is said to presage a fat graveyard.
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India
BI Ay Ae
Gyantse
Yatung
Wongdur
Ankiang
CEYLD
Indonesia
Lhasa
Hina
Minh Eerie
P.F.C
Richard W. Maxwell
F.F.C. Houston D. Marine
Easton
Chosin Reservoir
North Korea
Elizabeth Strachan Freret
Norman
Payne
Charles
Washington, D. C
George Washington University Law School
Charles di Umberto
Chicago
Trenton
N. J
Wiliam Drury
di Umberto
Charles Rotundo
NPA
William H. Harrison
Crazy Wate Company, Inc. Mineral Wells
Texas
Peter
Uscle
Lief
That Teeming & Co
Baume Analgesique
Heynotla Tobacco Coy
America
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