Trainees Morals Guarded in UMIT Military Training Plan
The piece argues for universal military training stressing integration of youth with education and work benefits. It outlines six months of initial training at Fort Knox with limited actual military activity, extensive counseling, and a strong moral education. It notes options after six months, including further training, service enlistment, or college study, and highlights civilian advisory oversight and positive outcomes observed.
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Washington
UMIT
Army Information Digest
UMT
Fort Knox Experimental Unit
National Security Training Corps
Armed Services
National Guard
Enlisted Reserve Corps
Port Knox
Louisville
London Meet Dissolves and Inflation Bill Defeated
The London meeting ends with no agreement on German reparations and Russia. U S Britain and France plan Western Germany talks while inflation control fails in Congress. The House defeats the anti inflation bill 202 to 189, amid budget cuts to winter relief. A safety push urges driver training in high schools to reduce traffic deaths.
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Ags
Russia
Germany
Europe
United States
Great Britain
France
Truman
Congress
Senate
House
Italy
Austria
China
Brent Spence
Dem
Rep
A. S
Mike) Monroney
Okla
House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
John Taber
Guard Strength Up in National Guard Numbers
The U S national guard totaled 201 041 on November 30 1947, higher than any prewar year except 1940, per Maj Gen Kenneth F Cramer. Projected strength for June 30 1948 is 271 000 with about 250 000 in 4 500 army units and 21 000 in 365 air units.
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U. S. National Guard
Kenneth F. Cramer
National Guard
Inflation Forecasts Signal Seasonal Price Rise and Election Tension
The piece notes rising retail and wholesale prices into April and May with expected food and meat price increases. It cites wholesale garment prices, Europe’s demand, and a peak in building materials demand for 1948. Wage pressures from CIO President Murray add to inflation, while Washington leaders foresee action before the November presidential election.
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Europe
CIO
Philip Murray
Washington
Novemer
Answers to a General Quiz From Historical Q&A Snippet
The fragment lists ten quiz questions and partial answers on topics from the Roman shorthand to the Mayflower passenger, Civil War casualty location, Chinook winds, quintuplets, mountebank, and royalty name change. It includes answers such as Palmetto Ranch 1866, Pacific Northwest, once in about 75,000,000, Mary Chilton, and 1517.
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France
United States
Royal Family of
England
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
House of Windsor
Pacific Northwest
Mary Chilton
Summit II Coal Mine Fire Burns 115 Years Unextinguished
A notorious fire at Summit II in Pennsylvania has raged for 115 years, resisting every effort to extinguish it and becoming a famed enduring blaze in local history.
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Avation
Summit II
Pennsylvania
Farmers Produce Practically All Margarine Materials
Paramed in 49 states except Maine New Hampshire Nevada and Rhode Island supply nearly all inputs for margarine. In 1948 output reached 572,537,990 pounds using 222,830,060 pounds cotton seed oil 206,718,000 pounds soy bean oil 13,794,000 pounds peanut oil and 6,559,000 pounds corn oil. Margarine also contains cultured pasteurized skim milk skim milk solids salt vitamins and other ingredients all produced in the United States.
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Maine
New Hampshire
Nevada
Rhode Island
United States
Ady
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Fort Knox
Moscow
Drainer
Reregeamt
20Th Century Fund
Colian
Frank Creedon
Bankhage
Fort Bioox
London
Wayne Hughes
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Cleveland
Hughes
U. S
Future Farmers of America
Cary, ML
Michael Haverly
Dundee
Ill
Michael
Otto Schnering
Curtis Candy Company
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Christopher Wren
St. Paul's Cathedral
Charles II
John Snyder
the Treasury
United States Savings Bonds
American Textbook Publishers
Savings Bond Division
Treasury Department
Greece
Mistitoglou
Urania
Mary
Georgia Mistiloglou
U. S. Supreme Court
Chicago
America
Theodore
The
Palmetto Ranch
Texas
Lee
Appomattox
Calox Et Teleae
McKesson & Hobeins
Foley
Aise
Ces
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