Centex Gained Too 1948 Retail Sales in Travis County
The 1948 Census of Business shows Travis County retail sales at 137.4 million, up 236 percent from 39.9 million in 1939. Wholesale sales rose to 75.9 million, and services to 9.3 million, with Austin accounting for the major share. Employment climbed to 12,558 from 7,959 in 1939.
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Travis
US Department of Commerce
Travis County
Austin
Texas
Gonzales
Bell County
Belton and
Temple
Comal County
New Braunfels
Lee County
Hays County
Iran Denies Hiring US Agents in Plot
Iran denied a Soviet charge that it employed American experts to survey areas of military significance along the Iranian Russian border. Tehran said no activities were carried out in northern Iran or elsewhere contrary to good neighborly relations. Russia had accused the Iranian Oil Company of organizing the surveys, but Iran claimed the company is 100 percent Iranian owned and focused on oil exploration.
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Tehrain
Iran
Russia
Truman on Defeating Obstructionists in Congress
President Truman said Democrats and Republicans alike must defeat the worst obstructionists in Congress. He defined obstructionists as those against welfare measures, while excluding legitimate opponents of specific pet projects. He rejected vows for a subservient Congress and defended ongoing government reorganizations and fiscal policy amid deficit spending concerns.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Chicago
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Federal Communications and Interstate Commissions
McCarthy
Washington Post
AS YOU LIKE IT Yummy bread recipe headline
A nostalgic Kansan bakes memories into bread with a sweeter, flour rich loaf. A page six note highlights a motherly baking touch and the comfort of familiar flavors.
Senators Reject President Plan Amid Senate Action
The Senate killed President Truman's Agriculture Department reorganization plan after earlier disapproving four of his 21 proposals. House approved two plans to reorganize Labor and Commerce. Hoover Commission criticisms cited. The measure passed by a legal majority without a record vote as 59 senators were present.
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Senate
Hoover Commission
Executive Department
Holland
D-Fla
Secretary of Agriculture
Truman
Federal Communications
Interstate Commerce Commissions
National Labor Relations Board
Treasury Department
Sparkman
D-Ala
Austin Weather Forecast Sees Scattered Showers This Weekend
Austin forecasters predict a few scattered showers Friday and Saturday amid warm, partly cloudy skies. Expect temperatures from 68 to 88 degrees with a 20 degree swing. Thursday reached 86 at 5 pm after a 4 am low of 68. A trace of rain brings yearly total to 14.27 inches, 0.2 inch below normal.
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Austin
West Texas
Truman oil tax proposal rejected by House committee
The House Ways and Means Committee flatly rejected President Truman’s plan for $200 million in extra taxes on oil gas sulfur and non metallic minerals operators while voting to create depletion tax deductions for other products. The panel also cut tax refunds interest from 6 to 2 percent and maintained 6 percent on delinquent payments.
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Washington
Truman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Capitol Hill
Congress
Western Rails Label Walkout Drive Sparks Rail Strike
AFL switchmen threaten a 6 am Tuesday walkout on 10 Midwestern and Western lines to back demands for a 40 hour week and wage boosts, while railroads seek changes to curb feather bedding and operating limits. Government mediation may avert the second major tie up in a week as the dispute centers on pay and work rules amid broader rail labor actions.
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Chicago
Western Railroads
AFL
Daniel P. Loomis
Association of Western Railways
Arthur J. Glover
AFL Switchmen's Union of North America
Washington
Loomis
Switchmen’s
National Railway Mediation Board
Glover
Glover's Union
Brotherhood of
Railroad
Rock Island
Chicago Great Western
Davenport
Rock Island and Northwestern
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Great Northern
Minneapolis and
St. Louis
Northern Pacific Terminal Company
Oregon
St. Paul Union Depot Company
Sioux City Terminal Railway Company
Western Pacific Railroad Company
Switchmens
Roger J. McDonough
Utah Supreme Court
Switchmen's
McDonough
Truman
Permanent Atlantic Pact High Command Formed To Defend West
Twelve nations at a London conference created a permanent high command led by an American generalissimo to resist Soviet aggression. A joint council will meet in London, with a deputy from each nation. The plan emphasizes American control of atomic and strategic bombing, with forerunning talks on European economic cooperation.
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Russia
London
Nepowees
Trumann Washington
High Administration
United States
Pres. Truman
Robert Schuman
Free World
Truman
France
Germany
Marshall Plan
W. Averell Harriman
Dean Acheson
West
North Atlantic Planning Board For
Canada
Organization For European Economic Cooperation
OEEC
North America
Europe
Capital of indecision says Baruch warns on mobilization
Bernard Baruch denounces Washington as the capital of indecision and urges a comprehensive wartime mobilization plan including money farms factories and mines. He argues a global strategy and a general staff are needed and warns against waiting for bombs before legislating. He backs UN atomic control.
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New York
Bernard M. Baruch
Washington
United States
Bhovckie
Baruch
Columbia University
US Airmen Die In B29 Crash At Azores Lagens Field
A US Air Force B29 Superfortress crashed during landing at Lagens on Terceira Island Azores killing 16 airmen onboard. Initial reports differed with 15 or 16 fatalities. no survivors. Plane diverted from Bermuda en route to England. crew and five passengers aboard. Names to be released after next of kin notification.
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Ponta Delgada
Azores Islands
Lagens
US Air Force
London
Barksdale Field
Louisiana
301St
England
Azores
Bermuda
Air Force
Terceira Island
United States
Trains Collide Injuring Eleven Near Alexandria
Eleven persons were slightly injured when two passenger trains collided after a lightning strike jammed a switch. The Seaboard Silver Meteor halted unexpectedly and the Chesapeake and Ohio George Washington hit the rear car. Five injured admitted to Alexandria Hospital.
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Alexandria
Seaboard
Chesapeake and Ohio
George Washington
Alexandria Hospital
Lie May Bring Western Offers From Russians
Moscow reports say UN Secretary General Trygve Lie will carry to Western leaders proposals obtained in talks with Soviet officials. Lie has met with Premier Stalin and Foreign Minister Vishinsky this week, and will depart for Prague Paris and London before returning to the United States.
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Moscow
Trygve Lie
Lie
Stalin
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Prague
Paris
London
United States
Rail Line Blasted to Ease Winnipeg Flood Danger
Canadian Army ordered a North South CN Railways line section blown up in Fort Garry to relieve pressure on a six mile flood dike around greater Winnipeg. Sappers blasted the roadbed to divert floodwaters back toward the Red River as storms threaten the valley and dike breaching. Army crews removed debris and 147 truckloads of material hindering flow while officials monitor rising rivers and plan for longer term recovery.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canadian National Railways
Fort Garry
Red River
Manitoba
Red River Valley
Weather Bureau
D. M. Stephens
Emerson
Morris
Stephens
St. Boniface
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JO Ann Eicom
Sunday American-Statesman
Demos
Pennsylvania
James H. Duff
Duff
Chicago Tribune
the Tribune
Senator Johnston
D-Sc
South Carolina
Johnston
J. Strom Thurmond
New England
Economic Council
Leon H. Keyserling
FEPC
Fair Employment Practices Commission
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Eeeee Ween
Eeeereesnes
Editorial
Veee Eee
Serssensaseey
Agriculture Department
Western Rails
Prestige
Bernard Baruch
United Press
Assiniboine
Seine
Louis St. Laurent
House of Commons
Ottawa
Bie
Peaeaie
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