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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1947
Page
33
The Amarillo Globe News presents subscription rates and staff credits. Publication is in Amarillo Texas with evening issues except weekends, in connection with The Amarillo Daily News. Rates include daily and Sunday options, carrier and mail plans, and Sunday only plans.
The Amarillo Globe presents 13 platform planks from The Globe's platform campaign including city charter reform, a new traffic control system, expansion of parks and libraries, upgraded hospitals and industries, and incentives for civic growth. A weekly prize of 10 dollars for letters under 500 words runs to Saturday noon.
Federal Reserve Board finds 1940 to 1945 profits and asset growth favored small and medium firms over large munitions companies. Durable goods show large firms up 40 percent, medium 90 percent, and small producers 140 percent, with financing often more accessible to small concerns due to regional demand.
Cradle to grave trend noted as a Newton group of baby sitters forms an independent union and negotiates wages and working conditions with Newton housewives. In Chicago a coffin workers strike threatens funerals while British Beveridge Plan is referenced and a Truman budget critique is quoted.
Erich Brandeis argues that formal friendship pacts between nations are unnecessary and misleading. He warns they mask motives, expire, and fail when leaders betray allies, urging peace through Decalogue taught at home, church, and school by parents, teachers, and ministers.
Walter Lippmann analyzes the British White Paper Economic Survey for 1947, arguing Britain must ration imports and prices, limit consumer freedom, and redirect labor to essential industries to stay solvent. He contrasts British constraints with American and Soviet models and warns of choices shaping freedom of labor and national survival.
In a Miami casino gambling room Billy Rose recalls a comedian and a roulette night. A system player uses a heavy book of methods while staff hint at the club’s view that a winner is good publicity. The narrator reflects on luck, odds, and a Monte Carlo tale.
A 1947 Billy Rose tale depicts a casino director staging a murder to disguise a theft then a second Englishman using blood ketchup to fake a death. The manager pockets francs while the eater cannot buy chips with hamburgers.
A narrator muses on beliefs in astrology and sun activity affecting temperament and fate. He compares humans to corn, noting many unknowable factors shaping growth, weather, soil, and health of the parent grain. The piece blends science, superstition, and rural reflection.
A compact crossword with horizontal and vertical clues listing definitions for common terms. Embodies chemistry color terms, classic nouns, and abbreviations, inviting readers to fill a grid with cross letters and shared solutions.
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