Riavtors Are Worthless in Brownsville
Brownsville hosts a March festival with men growing beards as part of a charro costume. The beards draw attention, workers brace for crowds, and hotels from Brownsville to Mata moros fill, while officials field public interest and publicity plans.
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Brownsville
Associated Press
Chamber of Commerce
Welch Richardson
Welch
California
Texas
Matamoros
Mexico
Captain Kidd
Senate Bans Kickbacks In Government Subcontracts
The Senate passed and sent to President Truman a bill outlawing kickbacks paid to secure government contracts. A 1943 War Investigating Committee report cited gratitudes or gifts given for contract wards, noting the government bore costs under cost plus fixed fee systems.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Hill
Alabama
Sakhalin and Kuriles Joined Soviet Union
Soviet announce that Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands are integral parts of the USSR and largely nationalized. The note references promises by Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta to hand over the Kuriles and Sakhalin, with Russia to enter the war against Japan within three months after defeat of Germany.
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Moscow
Sakhalin
Kurile Islands
Soviet Union
Roosevelt
Churchill
Kuriles
Russia
Yalta
Japan
Germany
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West 6Th St
South Florida St
Hugh Rigler
West
15Th St
Riteway Food
Buchanan
Gun
Spradling Food Store
Pierce St
Teran Grocery
Grand Ave
Tommy's Food Store
6Th St
Adrian Merc. Co
Canyon
The
Buffalo Grocery
Claude
Paul Hood
Dumas
H & M Grocery
Dumas-Sunray Highway
Phillips & Son
Jones Market
Friona
T. J. Crawford
Fritch Grocery
112Th Cavalry Regiment
Texas Not's Guard
New Guinea
Arawe
Aitape
Leyte
Luzon
Imperial Sugar Company
Texas National Guard
Breford Russell Hunter
Homer Whitlov
le Fors
Bley Cash Grocery
E. H. Huff
Pampa
Oldham Grocery
George Adamie Phillips Plant Roi
National Food St Seago Grocery
Thaxton Food Store
Sunray Food Store
S. A. Duckett
Red & White
Imperial Segar
Vega
Bellview
D. C. Hill
Wait Williams
Grady's Food Store
Lee
United States
Canada
Idaho Russell
Florida
Gerber
Isugar
Sunspun
Hea
Otto Bach
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Peer Beef Roast
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