Scanning the Week's News on Britain's Queen and U S Policy
A wide overview ties Elizabeth II's accession to Britain's economic peril and global balance of power. It notes Truman's inflation controls and Defense Production Act, rising personal incomes, GI Bill costs and graft claims, plus foreign aid fears and the push for European defense including German troops amid French German tensions.
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Elizabeth I
Great Britain
Elizabeth II
Britain
America
United States
Russia
Truman
Congress
Acheson
Schuman
Adenauer
France
West Germany
N.A.T.O
Farm Revolution Forecasts Big Drop in Farm Labor
A senate subcommittee report by Dr. Francis J. Weiss warns chemical and mechanical labor saving devices will cut farm workers from 9.32 million in 1950 to 7.785 million in 1960 and about 5.3 million by 1970, signaling a migration away from family farms and rural areas as farming becomes more automated.
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Senate Labor-Management Relations
Francis J. Weiss
Subcommittee
United States
Birthday anniversaries mark Girl Scouts Camp Fire Girls observances
The Girl Scouts 40th anniversary runs through 1952 led by a March 12 event noting the 1912 Savannah founding by Juliette Gordon Low. Scout membership reaches 1,770,000 with 1,423 councils and 216 troops overseas. Camp Fire Girls celebrate March 16–22 with the slogan Design for Friendship and a 365,000 member base in 2,900 communities.
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Girl Scouts
Campfire Girls
Juliette Gordon Low
Savannnsh
U.S
Girl Guide
Roy F. Layton
Camp Fire Girls
Frriendship
Luther Halsey Gulick
United States
Easter Seal Campaign To Begin March 13
The National Society for Crippled Children will conduct its annual drive from March 19 to Easter Sunday April 13. Easter Seal contributions funded services in 1951 including treatment training convalescent care special education recreation employment and counseling for over a quarter million crippled children and adults.
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United States
House
Congress
Fredering W. Cropp
American Bible Society
Lowell Thomas
Thomas
National Society For Crippled Children
National Hobby Week to Begin March 17
National Hobby Week begins March 17 marking the fifteenth observance. The event features an extensive promotion campaign with tie ins for local merchants including department stores, art shops, camera stores, music shops, stamp dealers, book stores, sporting goods, hardware, and toy stores through the Hobby Guild of America at 34 West 33rd Street, New York.
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Hobby Guild of America
West 33Rd Street
New York
Exchange Program Sends American Junior Farmers to Australia
The first American junior farmers to visit Australia under the International Farm Youth Exchange arrive in Sydney. Cora Blackmore Mary Sue Nichols and Keith Duane Burt will spend about six months studying pastoral and agricultural industries. They will lodge on two farm types to gain full exposure.
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Australia
Farm Youth Exchange
International Farm Youth Exchange Project
Sydney
New South Wales
U.S
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Norfolk
Mary Sue Nichols
North Carolina
Keith Duane Burt
Kansas
Burt
Miss Nichols
Western Australia
Miss Blackmore
Virginia
Young Farmers Movement
Federation of Young Farmers of
England and Wales
Young Farmer
Sydney Harbor Bridge
Cora Blackmore
Irrigated Land in US Totals Over Twenty Six Million Acres
Census data show 26,218,508 acres irrigated in the United States with five million added in the past decade. Texas accounts for the largest gain, rising from 1,045,224 to 3,148,115 acres. National irrigation investment reaches 1.887 billion dollars.
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Census Bureau
United States
Texas
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Department of Commerce
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Queen Elizabeth
Eisenhower
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Movcrners
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Strategic Air Command
San Diego
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General Electric
Pittsburgh
Aldo Vcardi
Office of Strategic Service
Italy
Haly
Icardi
Carl G. Lodoice
Rochester
Hungary
Dean Acheson
Senate Armed Services Committee
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Red Border
State Department
Chic James
Miami
Joxer
Bob Satterfield
Yona Satterfield
Bob
Cora Black
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