City Auditorium Site Eyed On Country Club Grounds
Mayor Tom Miller backs designating part of the Country Club 93 acre site at 41st and Red River for a proposed 400000 municipal auditorium. The plan includes parking, expansion room, and access via East Avenue and Red River Street with future street work.
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Country Club
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Guston Morgan
Montopolis
Highland Park West
Lake Austin
Council
45Th Street
Colorado River
Congress Avenue
Butler Park
Labor Prospective Job Losses Worry Truman Aides
Victor Riesel reports President Truman fears mass unemployment across the nation as CIO studies show job cuts in radios and electrical gear, textiles, rubber tires, furniture and more. He urged Bevin to help ease film industry joblessness and warned of pocket unemployment and a flood of new workers in coming years.
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Roy Brewer
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Murray
Communist frontline unions mobilize to protest joblessness
Truman cites a Communist underground trade union apparatus ready to stage protests in cities including Dayton Detroit San Francisco Oakland Los Angeles Chicago Pittsburgh and New England textile towns. The plan guides unions councils and coordinating committees to mount demonstrations threaten capitals and press bosses through noncooperation and noise.
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Migration and politics mix in midcentury road talk
A Chicago economist notes a large-scale farm migration while a rural worker earns big city pay. The Kremlin accuses the U S of saber rattling as plastic roads replace macadam by 1950. Churchill and the Conservative party feature in a note on election noise.
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Churchill
Oil Supply Cuts Prompt Dallas Hearings on Aid for Producers
The editor notes Congressman Wright Patman plans a May 25 26 Dallas hearing by the House small business committee on federal help for independent Texas oil producers. With imports cutting demand and prices, Patman argues for protection while others forecast larger subsidies and shifts in policy, including curtailing imports and potential effects on national defense and refinery profits.
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Texarkana
Texas
House
Small Business Committee
Dallas
Patman
W. R. Poage
Cong
Ken Regan
Clark W. Thompson
Four Years After FDR Cabinet Echoes in Memory
Washington notes mark the April anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Pearson recalls the era, the unsteady Potsdam start, and Truman's tough stance with Stalin, comparing hopes for peace with the current strain in U S Russian relations.
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Potsdam
Churchill
Jimmy Byrnes
United States
Harry Vaughan
Joe Stalin
Truman
Molotov
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Constitution Avenue
Inland port leader and maritime trivia in Q and A notes
The exchange covers Duluth-Superior as the second largest cargo port after New York, noting the inland status of Duluth and Superior as a joint harbor. It also discusses bird injuries, Thomas Cook tours starting July 5 1841, entry exams for service academies, origins of the phrase Philadelphia lawyer, and flag folding three-cornered tradition.
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New York
Duluth
Minn
Superior
Wis
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Philadelphia
H .R A
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Albany
Andrew Hamilton
Hamilton
New England
Philadelphia Laweyers
Salem Observer
Growing plants in pots and containers booklet offer
The notice promotes a government booklet titled House Plants. It explains how to grow plants successfully at home by managing light air humidity soil moisture and temperature. It invites readers to order a 30 page illustrated guide for 10 cents from the Austin American Information Bureau in Washington D C.
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Austin
American Information Bureau
Eye Street
N. E
Washington, D. C
Winchell on Broadway and Franco in Focus
A column reflects on Winchell and a shifting era as a funeral train carries Roosevelt era aides toward Potsdam. It condemns Franco's postwar diplomacy, labeling him a Nazi ally and praising US restraint while denouncing Spain's regime and its ties to Axis powers.
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Hitler
Spain
Fuehrer
Germany
Hell
Axis
Mussolini
Rome
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