Capital City engineers call Congress Avenue Bridge widening impractical
Travis County Texas Society of Professional Engineers released a report arguing widening Congress Avenue Bridge would fail to ease traffic, require long closures, and be costly. They favor building two low water bridges as a cheaper, less disruptive alternative and advocate studying bridge approaches and safer traffic controls first.
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Old Time Social Echoes and Modern Ironies
A collection of satirical phrases contrasts past and present customs. Humorous lines comment on drinking, consumerism, public spaces, and social progress with compact, ironic observations about everyday life and modern conveniences.
Congress Curb on Junkets and National Guard Mobilization
The piece notes fewer all expenses paid congressional inspections this year as adjournment nears and a possible post election session looms. It outlines Hawaii and Europe trips funded by committees, and a forthcoming Australia or New Zealand meeting with four senators and four representatives. It also covers National Guard Day preparations, postwar mobilization, and historic lineage of the National Guard with multiple divisions and air units.
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Labor seeks boycott of Russian trade at AFL convention
AFL leaders urged a world boycott of Soviet trade after private talks exposing Allied merchants selling steel rails, machine tools, and other materials to Russia and its allies. The report notes British labor officials resisting action, while Truman hosts a Whistle Stop with top union chiefs, amid Cold War pressure and wartime lend lease links.
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Orient
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Statler
Washington
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British National Trades Union Congress
Post-Mall Syndicate, Inc
British Envoy Jebb Captures TV Fame Amid UN Drama
Washington watchers praise Sir Gladwyn Jebb as a stabilizing UN figure while Malik charms audiences with a villain role. The British envoy’s poise and early Yalta suggestion colored postwar diplomacy, and TV coverage links public engagement to the UN’s Korea era revival.
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Korea
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Yalta
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League of Nations
Ireland
Army awards 671 lieutenant colonels in Diplomatic Pouch
The Army distributed shiny new Eagles to 671 lieutenant colonels last week. Four out of five went to Regular Army officers, while reserves sought promotion. Nonsubsidized airlines carried 44 percent of the Korean air lift, a fact tied to ongoing Civil Aeronautics Board pressures. Congress member Dingell faces beer limits for GIs in Korea, while MacArthur is urged not to hear such remarks.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
MacArthur
Dingell
Korea
Broadway Confetti and City Gossip From Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell’s Broadway roundup revels in celeb sightings at 53rd and Park and the Met. notes include Sonja Henie and Artie Shaw, Judy Garland’s driver caution, Don Cherry’s rising stardom, plus Midtown antics and a Jersey medico flaunting $1,000 bills.
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Artie Shaw
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Margaret Truman
Herald Trib
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