City Fortunate In Having Two Sites for Hall
Austin leaders discuss auditorium sites with Butler Park favored for a civic center and a plan for a bridge to connect to South First Street. City eyes two city owned options as South Austin fears slums while North Austin gears for Interstate work and a proposed east west river boulevard.
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Say At
Guadalupe
South First Street
Butler Park
South Austin Civic Club
South Austin
Butler Tract
Hutment Village
North Austin
Austin
Barton Springs Road
East Avenue
Montopolis
Burnet Road
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Southwest
River barges here not fanciful, Austin’s harbor idea revived
The editor notes Austin’s inland harbor potential on the Colorado River and compares it to Texas efforts to navigate the Trinity to Fort Worth and Dallas. A 77-foot ship sighting on Lake Travis suggests nautical shifts, while air travel patterns evolve to include shorter, feeder routes to Bryan Palestine Tyler and Lubbock with improved service and lower fares.
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Austin
Texas
Colorado River
Fort Worth
Dallas
Trinity River
Colorado
Gulf
Atlantic
Bryan
Palestine
Tyler
Lubbock
Civil Aeronautics Board
San Antonio
Waco
Houston
Cold War drives unseen wage boom and factory safety nets
Fifteen million dollars in unsold refrigerators illustrates how big firms rely on military orders to stay afloat. Unions have secured wage raises averaging 3.20 to 4.80 a week as wartime demand keeps plants open. Steel Workers head Phil Murray aims for more pay rises this spring, setting a pattern for the nation without major strikes.
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Army
Navy
Air Force
Secretary of Defense
AFL
CIO
Refrigerator Outfit
Washington
Steel Union
Pittsburgh
Steel Workers
Phil Murray
Big
Little Steel
Murray
Truman
New York Post Corp
Questions and Answers from a Newspapers Quiz
The column lists Q and A items on diverse topics. Authorities include Sir William Osler Karl Marx and the International Tracing Service. Topics cover mail to Santa Claus Dead Letter Office gypsum at White Sands dog racing Great Salt Lake Holy Door history Feb 29 birthdays New England Primer Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep tidal conditions on the Great Lakes and Panama Canal excavation dates.
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Demos as Lax as GOP In Public Lands
Washington column by Drew Pearson discusses public lands grazing policy and Forest Service funding. It notes congressional clashes over overgrazing, ranger staffing, and a $1.5185 million appropriations cut, plus iron curtain catalog sentiment and Merci Train exhibits across states.
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Congress
US Forest Service
House
Public Lands
GOP
Frank Barrett
Wyoming
Forest Service
Barrett
Agriculture
Clinton Anderson
Anderson
House Appropriations Committee
Honolulu
Louisville
J. B. Speed Art Museum
Capitol
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Madison Business and Professional Women’s Club
Arkansas
Sid McMath
Idaho
Washington State
Seattle
Spokane
University of Washington
Winchell on Broadway A mosaic of New York talk and tastes
New York chatter spans Ezio Pinza tensions at South Pacific premiere to wire tapping indictments and circus feats. Buzz covers Walter Hampden, Mrs Roosevelt on Meet the Press, Ringling Bros and a slew of film, radio, and book notes with sharp city color and critiques.
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Ezio Pinza
South Pacific
Mary Martin
Broady
Jones
Ryan
Buddy Clark
Kathy Fiscus
Henry Luce
Life
the Dupes
Shostakovich
the Waldorf
Luce
Whittaker Chambers
Time
Bachelor Dens
Man
Ann Rutherford
Oscar Wilde
Tiffany
Eyefalower
Simone Signoret
Deedee
Jane Russell
Esquire
Billingsley
Rockefeller Plaza
Broadway
John L. Lewis
Manhattan
Washington
Lewis
N. Y. Times
Churchill
Goebbels
the Geraldos
Ringling Bros. Circus
Rhonda Fleming
Walter Hampden
Jed Harris
Hampden
Hamlet
Life Mag
Boston Braves
Mgr
Southworth
Gene Fowler
Jimmy Walker
Beau James
Seabury
Tammany
Steve Early
FDR
Crowe
Jane Wyman
Vishinsky
Forrestal
Teevee
Univ. of
Calif
Essig
Mags
Franco
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