Price Hikes Targeted for 250 Major Firms
Advance notice on wage and price controls spreads through Capitol Hill and the White House. Labor leaders press for wages to track living costs, seeking parity in food prices and rent and urging new legislation for broader control. NPA warns on hoarding as inventories face strain amid dislocations.
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Capitol Hill
Rowland Jones Jr
American Retail Federation
United Labor Policy Committee
Congress
Truman
White House
Cyrus W. Ching
Wage Stabilization Board
Galen
Wew
The
Economic Stabilization Administration
ESA
Senate
Capehart
National Production Administration
NPA
Manley Freischman
House Defense
William H Harrison
Harrison
Beachhead Reds retreat after shelling and air strikes
Allied forces including Navy Corsairs and a destroyer hammered North Korean positions near the 38th parallel. UN and South Korean troops faced fresh North Korean buildup with limited advances noted around Hwachon and Chunchon as guerrilla activity persisted along routes to Seoul.
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Navy
Lambert
MacArthur
Eighth Army
Hwachon
Chunchon
Seoul
Senate Passes Own Version Of Profits Tax Plan
Senate advances its excess profits tax proposal amid criticism it is hurried and imperfect. Leaders say revisions possible in future sessions as conference with House begins to resolve differences. Senate members George and O Mahoney comment on loopholes while debate frames revenue goals for 1950 and 1951.
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Senate
Douglas
Senate House
Connally
George
D-Ga
Byrd
D-Va
Millikin
R-Cole
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Truman
Callendar
Finance Committee
O'Mahoney
Flanders
D1 Estimate Tops Wheat Crop of Fifty-One
The Agriculture Department forecast the 1951 winter wheat crop at 899,096,000 bushels, 148,430,000 more than this year. If spring wheat averages 272,000,000, total 1,171,006,000. Production goal set at 1,150,000,000. Acreage seeded to winter wheat 56,103,000 acres, abandonment 9.7 percent. Rye planted 3,782,000 acres, condition 87 percent of normal. Texas winter wheat planted 6,416,000 acres to yield 57,744,000 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Texas
Train Crash Kills Mother and Four Children in Grandville
Mrs. B. B. Smith and four of her children died when their car was struck by a locomotive while Christmas shoppers watched in Grandville Michigan. Leroy 9 survived with critical injuries and said the family was returning from shopping at Jenison. The victims were Boyd 12 Larry 10 Sandra 7 and Donald 4.
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Grandville
Mich
B. B. Smith
Orre
Boyd
Larry
Sandra
Donald
No Verdict Yet In Lopez Drowning Case Autopsy
An autopsy on Leonard Lopez found no definite signs of drowning and no external marks of foul play. The body was recovered from Bull Creek and sent to the state lab for further tests. a verdict is delayed until results are completed.
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Leonard Lopez
Justice of the Peace
Travis Blakeslee
Lopez
Bull Creek
Blakeslee
State Department of Public Safety Laboratory
Hoover outlines postwar defense and aid plans for Western nations
Hoover argues for strengthened air and naval power to hold sea lanes and defend Britain Japan Formosa and the Philippines. He calls for arming forces while offering independence to Japan and aiding hungry nations. He urges unity in Europe but says defense must rest with European nations themselves. He condemns appeasement and criticizes UN indecision on Korea.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Britain
Japan
Formosa
Philippines
Truman
Europe
America
United States
Korea
Hoover
China
United Nations
Congress advances 20 billion defense bill amid GOP pushback
Parliament blocks a broad power grant as House and Senate panels clash over Truman defense priorities. Lawton faces questions on executive reorganization while earmarks fund Alaska bases and radar, with 68 wings planned by 1951 and 84 by 1952.
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Vie Equimane
Halleck
R-Ind
House
Cellar
D-Ny
House Judiciary Committee
Brown
Rohio
Truman
Ohio
Mr. Truman
GOP
Rep. Brown
Congress
Capitol Hill
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
McClellan
D-Ark
Frederick J. Lawton
Eend
Charles E. Wilson
Taft
Lawton
Mundt
R-Sd
Schoeppel
R-Kan
Sen
Senate
Air Force
Alaska
Costs of World War I Estimated at 180 Billion Dollars
The article states that World War I cost about 180 billion dollars in monetary terms. It notes this figure as the overall financial burden from the war across participating nations, reflecting total expenditures and debt incurred.
GOP Solon Declares Dewey War Address Political
Rep Paul Shafer questions Governor Dewey on mobilization proposals calling the address a politik speech. He argues 100 divisions require far more manpower and emphasizes need for arms production and training before universal service. He warns Dewey could mount a 1952 presidential bid.
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Washington
Sharps
Au Te Annes
Dewey
Paul Shafer
Rmich
New York
Shafer
House Armed Forces Committee
Korea
Gov. Dewey
Republican Party
Oregon Rock Slide Buries At Least Three Men
A rock slide at Kern Kibben Quarry above the Umpqua River near Reedport Oregon buried at least three workers and injured two others. The blast likely caused the slide and missing workers' count remained uncertain as state police and the quarry firm searched for survivors.
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Reedsport
Ore
Here Wednesay
Kern & Kibben
Umpqua
Portland
North Bend
Appeals Court Docket Status Check Ordered
Capitol staff directs Civil Appeals courts to report docket actions as of December 31. This precedes Supreme Court action to transfer cases and cite dockets of the intermediate courts.
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Appeals Court
Capitol Staff
Supreme Court
Courts of Civil Appeals
Supreme Rt
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Austin American-Statesman
Torrance
Gualadupe
Associates
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Mene
Lavaca
Grocer
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D’orsay
Oregon
Comfort
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