Vacant Austin Lots and Postwar Paving Plans Highlight City Growth
The Austin plan engineer reports 8,778 vacant lots inside the city limit with 43,890 people potential and 1,333 residential permits issued since last November. A $393,000 postwar paving program aims to cover 80 blocks, financed by seven yearly payments of $3.50 per month per lot, easing the burden on homeowners. Gold Star Mothers propose a $5,000 World War II memorial on 11th Street near Congress Avenue.
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Austin American
William O. Parker
Guston Morgan
City Plan Commission
Austin
Colorado River
Congress Avenue
East Avenue
Parker
34Th Street
Lamar Boulevard
Georgetown Road
South
San Antonio Highway
West 34Th Street
Lake Austin
Manor Road
19Th
45Th Street
Public Works Department
Texas
Gold Star Mothers of
Travis County
11Th Street
Montgomery
Ala
Colorado Springs
New Orleans
Robert E. Lee
Crescent City
Appeal to Treason to Laborers in Communist Propaganda
A 1949 New York Post rebuttal argues Communist tactics in steel towns aim to provoke strikes and weaken CIO leader Murray. The piece cites directives to disrupt production, warns of Finland style chaos, and laments harm to workers and families.
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Party
Pittsburgh
Bakewell
Murray
Gary
Ind
New Kensington
Phil Murray
CIO
Finland
Fagerholm
Communist Party
Murphy
Daily Worker
New York Post Corp
Questions and Answers from a Historical Quiz Feature
A 1948 style Q and A column covers limits of human height to avoid imbalance, pig swimming ability, annual ice cream consumption, sawbuck paper money, living portraits on stamps, Napoleon delusions in the mentally ill, farm ownership by operators, references to Jesus outside the Bible, Grant's love of fast horses, and thunder’s distance and cause. The piece uses concise trivia and historical notes, naming organizations and figures such as the Weather Bureau, Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, Claudius, Ulysses S. Grant, and West Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Josephus
Tacitus
Suetonius
Claudius
Texas employment upturn amid moderate distress and farm demand
Texas shows a healthy upsurge in non agricultural jobs with fewer GI benefit recipients and falling unemployment, while farm demand surges with near 100000 cotton picking positions. The Texas Employment Commission notes improved conditions despite strikes and wartime readjustments, and agriculture remains strong through a historic cotton crop and high farm help demand.
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Texas
Texas Employment Commission
Commission
Employment Commission
Booklet offer on common household pests
The notice advertises a booklet titled Common Household Pests with up to date guidance from official sources. It lists pests including ants moths flies cockroaches bed bugs fleas termites rats and mice and urges readers to order by sending 15 cents to Austin American Information Bureau in Washington DC.
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Austin
American Information Bureau
Eye Street
Washington, D. C
Louis N. Goldberg Named Business Manager In Austin
Louis N. Goldberg was appointed business manager for the Austin operation, taking over duties from the previous administrator. Goldberg, noted for financial oversight in regional projects, will supervise budgeting, payroll, and vendor contracts while coordinating with the city department.
Austin Daily Page Four Item
September 20, 1949, Austin Texas page four fragment gives a brief notice or item from the local paper. The readable text focuses on community updates and public notices without full context.
Washington Mamy Go Round Good Cheer Prevails At US Anglo Leader Dinner
Washington luncheon of the Senate foreign relations committee yields light banter between American and British leaders. Bevin compares relations to blood. Acheson and Bevin recall Paris meeting. Connally jests with Barkley. debate hints at a new Sparkman middle income housing bill and federal payroll cuts.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Vandenberg
Ernest Bevin
Ernie
Tom Connally
Texas
Bevin
Connally
Britain
Acheson
Vishinsky
Paris
Elbert Thomas
Utah
FBI
Sen
St. Louis
Barkley
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Scott Lucas
Lucas
Bourke Hickenlooper
Iowa
Ken Wherry
Nebraska
Congress
GOP
Jesse Walcott
Michigan
Vito Marcantonio
New York
Broadway Gossip and Gala Glimpses From The Stork Club
Celebrities mingle at The Stork Club table 50 with Fanny Ward and Mary Pickford while G J Nathan quiets down a morose Yankee fan. Tuna weighs in at Montauk in a Pulitzer Prize catch as Ralph Pulitzer tours. Rex Harrison entertains at Cub Room. Dr. A J Cronin journals on Central Park benches.
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Mary Pickford
Stork
Fanny Ward
G. J. Nathan
N. Y
Harlem
Prince Jung
Nepal
A. J. Cronin
Central Park Bench
Miami Beach
Sheraton
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Diet
Austin American Information
N. E
D. C
B.R.G
R. H
United States
Napoleon
Northwest
West
Jesus Christ
Ulysses S. Grant
White House
West Point
Weather Bureau
The
Editors
Hotebook
Board of Education
R. B. Cousins Jr
Gilmer-Aikin
By Smith
Louis N. Goldberg
Austin, Texas
Mamy
George III
Foreign Office
Tom Clark
Supreme Court
John Sparkman
Alabama
Johnson
Defense
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Broadway
George S. Kaufman
George
Harper’s
Tina Safranski
5Th Avenue
Dept
Jose Iturbi
Vladimir Horowitzes
Wanda Toscanini
Christian Dior
Alla Hitchoun
Diana Wing Williams
Kress
Jake Williams
Watson Blair
Yale
Pinky
Zanuck
Detroit
Como
Pancho Gonzales
Hamburger Heaven
Nancy Harris
L. Preston
Kingsley
Columbia Pictures
Ralph Kiner
Monica Lewis
MGM
Jean Harlow
Faye Emerson
Elliott Roosevelt
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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