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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1947
Page
10
The fragment lists the Amarillo Globe and News publishing details dated February 20 1924 along with office location Sixth and Fillmore Amarillo Texas editors and managers and subscription pricing for daily and Sunday editions including one year six months and monthly rates.
The piece compares Soviet price shocks and currency reform to Western experiences, noting Russia’s devaluation, rationing, and a crackdown on speculators. It argues inflation relief may come at the cost of savings and living standards, with little sign of increased production.
Henry A. Wallace warns that communism arises from bleak mood rather than cinema or American activity. He says it grows in prospects of despair. Harry S. Truman reflects on criticism as a path to self insight. Senator Anton H. Vannensenc of Michigan cites UN as a bridge facing this new aggression.
Paul Gallico offers a humorous yet reassuring take on the Christmas scramble. He notes the shopping squeeze and the posturing of holiday stress, then argues the season is buoyed by Christmas Spirit and simpler, kinder generosity.
The London talks collapsed not over reparations or misused diplomacy but because after Yalta the Soviets no longer needed Western cooperation. They never wanted to cooperate and only wartime necessity forced it, with the rest of the world constrained by their revolutionary program.
In a Lindy’s table tale Billy Rose learns of Sam the Stand-In who paid for fan mail service with extra pay as Rose’s fan letters vanished. Sam hid the letters in a trunk at his rooming house until a plumpish woman helped move the trunk to Rose’s dressing room.
A Hollywood stand-in loans his pictures to fans while hoarding fan mail money. His landlady helps him, then he uses quarters for himself. After back rent threats, he marries the landlady who had aided him, waiving $750 owed and receiving a dowry of 200 five dollar bills.
In a letter to Santa, a local professor asks for lasting good over luxury. He asks for cures for cancer, support for those fighting disease, restraint from war, and an end to hunger hate and gossip, admitting the suits and beer are small beside these needs.
A Bell Syndicate summary parades a stark anti Soviet stance. It argues that world history is class war per Marx Lenin, predicting irreconcilable conflict until a global Communist system prevails. It claims no middle ground exists and urges relentless struggle with no ethical hesitation.
Georges Bidault, French foreign minister, called George C. Marshall a European minded statesman in a Brussels address on Europe’s future. He lauded the Marshall Plan as spontaneous and noble, noting no European government can do without U.S. help. He quoted Montesquieu on Russia’s threatening posture.
Plants display vibrant hues to attract insects like bees. Nature’s flowers use color to invite pollinators, aiding reproduction and biodiversity in ecosystems.
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