Public Works Shelved and Reimagined for Leaner Years
Amid unemployment near 3 million, calls grow for more public works spending to stabilize jobs. The piece details past PWA activity, current loan programs, and proposed bills by Senators Pepper Green Murray Chavez and others to finance planning and construction, with projections and sector breakdowns for 1949 and beyond.
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Washington
NEA
Public Works Administration
PWA
Congress
Pepper
Florida
Green
Rhode Island
James E. Murray
Montana
Federal Works Agency
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Jesse M. Donaldson
Jess Larson
W. E. Reynolds
Chavez
Columbia Valley Authority
Spinach Dietitian Warns Kids Will Refuse Greens
A dietitian notes that regardless of cooking, children often reject spinach in meals. The comment adds to a light collection of quirky observations spanning crime, prisons, and oddities from an era of newspaper humor.
AFL to push liberal gains in 1950 election drive
The American Federation of Labor pledges a nationwide canvass in 1950 to elect a large liberal majority to Congress. It criticizes the 81st Congress for not enacting Truman’s labor platform and outlines a sustained league for political education and a get out the vote campaign across all districts.
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American Federation of Labor
Washington
Truman
House of Representatives
Organized Labor
America
Congress
Labor
Senate Coalition
Democratic Party
League For Political Education
League
AFL
Defense Command
Percy Priest
Tennessee
Mildred Wiesenfeld
New York
Weather cycles guide Central Texas power and policy
The LCRA relies on Weather Bureau predictions and a seven year wet and dry cycle with a 28 year over cycle to plan reservoir storage and firm power contracts. Flood risk and drought timing affect irrigation, industry, and municipal supply, with forecasts guiding long term hydroelectric reliability.
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Central Texas
Weather Bureau
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Texas
Colorado
Answers and trivia from the era Q and A column
A series of brief Q and A items covers topics from astronomy to law and religion. Notable points include Halo telescope reach about a billion light years, alfalfa as the West’s chief irrigated crop, South Dakota’s driver licensing bill failing, fingerprints not revealing race, Judaism and Jewish nationality, Newton’s famed absent minded egg boiling, and Bible names lacking fixed surnames.
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Isaac Newton
Simon Bar-Jonah
Simon
Jonah
Judas Iscariot
Judas
Keriot
Palestine
Dime Novel Mood Haunts Dr. Jessup in Paris Fallout
Washington. Dr. Philip Jessup recalls secret talks with Malik and Gromyko before the Paris Big Four Conference failure. He reads the fatal Russian note under his desk blotter and seeks a translator, fearing the Berlin blockade decision and the world’s reaction. He laments acting like a character in a dime novel as the note’s meaning unfolds.
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Washington
State Department
Philip Jessup
Paris
Jessup
Gromyko
New York
Park Avenue
Berlin
Malik
Moscow
Somoza plans invasion as Costa Rica ratifies pact
Costa Rica’s ambassador to the United States deposited the friendship pact with Nicaragua with the OAS amid warnings of an imminent Central American war. Somoza threatens invasion aided by Panama and Cuba, with Guardia Nacional to lead a larger force and Neutrals El Salvador and Honduras torn between stance and survival.
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Costa Rica
Mario Esquivel
Nicaragua
Organization of American States
Central America
Mexican
Panama Canal
Somoza
Managua
Edwards
Richards
Henrys
France
Cuba
Guatemala
General Camera
Havana
Panama
Calderon Guardia
Guardia Nacional
Manual Mora
Julio Lopez Macegosa
Mexico
Caribe Moon
Santo Domingo
el Salvador
Honduras
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Gil
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Perrin
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dr. Jessup
Drew Pearson
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Democratic National Committee
Taft
Taft-Hartley
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
Donnell
Missouri
HST
Vishinsky
Foreign Ministers
Acheson
Molotov
Russia
Vishin
Red
Southeast Asia
Manila
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Bell Syndicate Inc
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense
Louis A. Johnson
Johnson
Senate Armed Services Committee
Army
Navy
Europe
Red Army
Stalin
Vistula
Oder
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Omar Bradley
Louis Denfeld
Hoyt Vandenberg
Joan of Arc
Austin American
Austin
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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