Russia's Three Weaknesses Hamper Red War Efforts
Richard Wilson summarizes Look Magazine findings on Soviet vulnerabilities in 1950. Weak transport, oil shortages, and over concentrated industry limit Russia's capacity for a large scale European offensive. American air power and long-range bases could target key plants, oil fields, and rail networks, potentially delaying any all out conflict.
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Richard Wilson
Washington, DC
Russia
Korea
Indo China
Yugoslavia
Look Magazine
Ellsworth Raymond
Inoscow
Kamensk-Uralsk
Raymond
Central Asia
Novosibirsk
Siberian
Chicago
Sverd
Lovsk
Europe
United States
Port Lyautey
Tripoli
Suez
North Africa
America
Iran
Abadan
Persian Gulf
Dhahran
Baku
Grozny
Germany
Soviet Union
Red Army
Fall Victim Found 14 Hours Later
Dallas report of a construction worker James Keys who fell 50 feet from a bridge as a scaffold collapsed while placing warning flares. He lay injured in Trinity River bottoms for 14 hours before being found by a passerby and was in fair condition at a hospital.
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Dallas
W.p—A
Trinity River
James Keys
Keys
Everyday Movies by Wortman details winners and placements
The article notes Denys Wortman and competitors Fred Mazzani of Elwood City and Gerald Long of Ann Arbor with the times and places in heats. It lists John T. Valenti of Detroit Everett Custer of Roanoke Richard R. Evans of Ravenna Kent and Ivins J. Wright of Mt. Holly as finishers in seventh to tenth.
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Fred Mazzani
Elwood City
Gerald Long
Ann Arbor
Mich
John T. Valenti
Detroit
Everett Custer
Roanoke, Va
Richard R. Evans
Ravenna Kent, O
Ivins J. Wright
Mt. Holly
Straight A student wins soap box derby in Akron
Harold D. Williamson, a 15 year old from Charleston West Virginia, won the 13th all American soap box derby sponsored by Chevrolet before about 50 000 fans. He carried a Sunday school Testament as luck charm and earned a 5000 dollar four year scholarship. Second place went to Donald Alter of Danville Pennsylvania, third to Richard Dougan of Muncie Indiana. Williamson’s final time was 27.5 seconds, though his earlier heats were faster. He had overcome rheumatic fever as a child and will start his sophomore year next fall.
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Akron
Ohio
Charleston
WVA
Harold D. Williamson
Chevrolet
Williamson
Gazette
Donald Alter
Danville
Williamsport
Sun-Gazette
Richard Dougan
Muncie
Ind
Jack Dempsey
Wilbur Shaw
Jimmy Stewart
William “Hopalong Cassidy
Boyd
Glenn Bradford
Kansas City
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China's Top Red On Secret Trip
A Nationalist report from Formosa says Mao Zedong left Peiping on August 11 for an undisclosed destination after cabled instructions from Stalin. The message notes his February return from Russia and a 30 year Soviet partnership, with hints he may meet Soviet advisers in Mukden, Manchuria.
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Hong Kong
Mao Tve-tung
Peiping
Wah Kiu Yat Po
Taipei
Formosa
Mao
Stalin
China
Russia
Van Zeeland Named Premier of Belgium
Belgium's Prince Baudouin named acting Foreign Minister Paul van Zeeland as premier designat e to form a Social Christian cabinet. Van Zeeland accepted the post after Duvieusart and Segers declined, following the resignation of the government as Baudouin took over royal powers from King Leopold III. The split within the Leopoldist Social Christians helped push the government from office.
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Brussels
Belgium
Prince Baudouin
Paul van Zeeland
van Zeeland
Jean Duvieusart
P. W. Segers
Leopold III
Due Vieusart
Leopold
Baudouin
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Rhonda Fleming
Arizona
Gallup, NM
Rocky Mountain” Company
Errol Flyrm
Patrice Wymore
Irene Dunne
George Marshall
Natalie Wood
Gigi Perreau
Irene
Love
Hollywood
John Wayne
Jane Russell
MGM
Bert Kalmar
Harry Ruby
Vera- Ellen
L. A. Mirror Syndicate
Mr. Wilson
Washington
Cowles Magazines, Inc
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Minneapolis Star and Tribune
Register and Tribune Syndicate
Polk
Gunn
Rip
State Farm Mutual
B. B. Williams
Frank Campbell
10Th
Tyler
B. Williams
Y Campbell
Gilbert
State Farm Insurance CO
S. 10Th and
Trier
Panhandle
Harris Clock Service
N. Fillmore
Denys Wortman
Duke
Raines
Texas Boot & Shoe Shop
Jth
Globe-News
St.joseph
Earl C. Cayton
Seiberling
Fillmore
Shamrock
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