Price Hikes and Wage Controls Stir Capitol Debate
Industry leaders and lawmakers clash over a voluntary price freeze and wage controls as the administration seeks to curb living costs. AFL CIO leaders press for wages to match cost of living while NPA promises enforcement action against hoarding and supply dislocations.
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Capitol Hill
Rowland Jones Jr
American Retail Federation
Jones
United Labor Policy Committee
AFL
William Green
CIO
Philip Murray
Mr. Truman
White House
Truman
Congress
Cyrus W. Ching
Wage Stabilization Board
Economic Stabilization Administration
ESA
Senate
Capehart
National Production Administration
NPA
Manley Freischman
Senate House Defense
William H. Harrison
Harrison
Beachhead Reds retreat under heavy shelling and air support
frontline reports describe intense shelling and air strikes as UN and South Korean forces repulse North Korean advances near the 38th parallel. Navy destroyers and Corsairs bombarded hillsides while artillery and tanks disrupted enemy positions.
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Navy
Lambert
Senate Passes Own Version Of 3 Billion Profits Tax Plan
The Senate advances an excess profits tax bill amid differences with the House. Senate finance chair George warns it is imperfect and will be refined by later practice. O Mahoney cites loopholes. Flanders calls it better than the House bill yet supports deeper reforms.
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Senate
Douglas
Senate House
Connally
D-Tex
George
D-Ga
Byrd
Millikin
R-Cole
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Truman
Finance Committee
House
O'Mahoney
Flanders
Estimate Tops Wheat Crop of 50
The Agriculture Department forecast the 1951 winter wheat crop at 899,096,000 bushels, up 148,430,000 from this year’s 750,666,000. Spring wheat not forecasted. total 1,171,096,000 expected with spring 272,000,000. Government target 1,150,000,000. Fall seeded winter wheat 56,103,000 acres, abandonment 9.7%, yield 16 bushels per acre. Rye planted 3,782,000 acres. rye condition 87% normal. Texas winter wheat acreage 6,416,000 with 57,744,000 bushels produced.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Texas
Train Crash Kills Mother and Four Children in Grandville
In Grandville Michigan a car carrying Mrs B B Smith and four of her children was struck by a locomotive at a downtown crossing during a Christmas shopping trip. The mother and four children Boyd 12 Larry 10 Sandra 7 and Donald 4 died. A 9 year old son Leroy survived severely injured and provided a account of the incident. The family was en route from Jenison Michigan.
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Grandville
Mich
B. B. Smith
Boyd
Larry
Sandra
Donald
No Verdict Yet In Lopez Death Autopsy Findings
A preliminary autopsy on Leonard Lopez found no definite signs of drowning. He was recovered from Bull Creek Tuesday afternoon. Police said there were no outward signs of foul play but drowning could not be ruled out. The body was sent to the state lab for further tests and a verdict is pending lab results.
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Leonard Lopez
Justice of the Peace
Travis Blakeslee
Lopez
Bull Creek
Blakeslee
State Department of Public Safety Laboratory
Hoover Warns Against Appeasement and Urges Western Defense
The speaker argues for strong air and naval forces to guard Atlantic and Pacific fronts with Britain and Japan, advocates arming Japan, and stresses pacific frontier defenses. He calls for tough budgets, continued aid to the hungry, and rejects appeasement while urging European nations to unite and defend Western civilization.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Britain
Japan
Formosa
Philippines
Congress fast tracks 20 billion defense bill amid power debate
Congress plans immediate House action on a 20 billion defense measure with two hour debate. Truman seeks war powers to reorganize federal agencies, while Senate panel approves emergency authority for defense contracts up to June 30 1952 but resists full agency reshuffle.
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Cellar
D-Ny
House Judiciary Committee
Brown
Rohio
Mr. Truman
Ohio
GOP
Rep. Brown
Halleck
Congress
Capitol Hill
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
McClellan
D-Ark
Frederick J. Lawton
Truman
Charles E. Wilson
Taft
Lawton
Mundt
R-Sd
Schoeppel
R-Kan
Sen
Senate
Alaska
Air Force
Drop In The Bucket Costs Of World War I
The article cites an estimate that World War I cost about 180 billion dollars in monetary terms, highlighting the war’s enormous financial burden. It notes the figure as a historical accounting of expenditures during the conflict.
Dewey War Address Criticized by GOP Solon
Rep. Paul Shafer of Michigan assailed Governor Dewey's war talk as political in nature. He called the address ill advised and urged focusing on mobilizing weapons and training troops rather than speeches. Shafer warned Dewey could press a 1952 presidential bid, saying the party must beware renewed “Deweyism.”
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Dewey
Shafer
Korea
Gov. Dewey
Oregon Rock Slide Buries At Least Three Men
A rock slide at Kern and Kibbe Quarry along the Umpqua River near Reedport Oregon buried at least three men and injured two others. Authorities suggested a premature powder blast caused the slide and the missing count was initially uncertain.
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Reedsport
Ore
Here
Kern & Kibbe
Umpqua
Portland
North Bend
Appeals Court Docket Status Check Ordered
The Supreme Court ordered the Courts of Civil Appeals to report docket conditions as of December 31. The move aims to track caseloads after transfers and to identify the status of intermediate court dockets.
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Appeals Court
Capitol
Supreme Court
Courts of Civil Appeals
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