Capital City Austin Faces Heavy Program With High Costs
City planners estimate massive upgrades across Austin including paving drainage bridges and utilities with costs near 200 million dollars for streets and structures plus 1 million for storm sewers. The plan covers 45th and 19th Streets and extensions beyond current city limits with new bridges river drives and a high school stadium.
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Austin
Guston Morgan
Morgan
Public Works Department
Planning Commission
Austin of Tomorrow
45Th Street
19Th Street
38Th Street
Koenig Avenue
Clayton Avenue
Colorado River
Montopolis
Houston
Corpus Christi
San Antonio
Texas Road Report Highlights 92 Days Per 40 MPH Travel
Editors Notebook cites a Bureau of Public Roads survey showing 88 443 miles of all weather highways in Texas. It notes farm to market roads financed since V J Day and a planned 15 million annual secondary highway program. Also reports resignation of A C Stimson over licensing rules and a wary view of state land surveying oversight.
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Texas
Ike Ashburn
Texas Good Roads Association
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Senate
State Highway Department
Highway Commission
A. C. Stimson
State Board of Examiners of
Stimson
Bascom Giles
Coal Fights and Mine Bosses Stir Midwest Gloom
In Illinois miners strike against Marion County Coal Corp and Virginia workers march to deter non strikers. John L Lewis faces backlash as coal above ground rises with ample steel supplies. He blames operators for welfare fund losses while mismanaging funds and provoking national crisis.
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Victor Riesel
Midwest
Illinois
Marion County Coal Corporation
West Virginia
John Lewis
John L
Springfield
Old John
Lewis
Washington
Lewis’ Welfare Fund
Island Creek Company
America
Einstein
Hamlet
New York Post Corp
Sweet potato chips and other Q A from a 1949 column
The piece explains making golden colored chips from Porto Rico or similar sweet potatoes and notes serving options. It surveys divorce grounds in New Mexico, estimates indigenous populations at colonization, legal punishments by England, British cannon ball sizes, plant carnivores about 500 species, concentration wrinkles, and Alcoholics Anonymous membership at about 80,000 in early 1949.
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Porto Rico
Alcoholics Anonymous
J.T.O. A
William W
Today’s booklet offer on red letter New Testament
An advertisement invites readers to order a red letter New Testament highlighting Jesus’ words. It notes readability advantages over standard editions and offers a copy for 25 cents, sent to Austin American Information Bureau at 316 Eye Street NE, Washington 2.
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Bureau
Eye Street
Washington
D. C
Austin American Information
Jesus
Austin
American Information Bureau
Men of Steel to Decide on Potential Nationwide Strike
Washington dispatch profiles two US Steel leaders Ben Fairless and Enders Voorhees. It outlines their backgrounds, labor relations leanings, and roles under Taft-Hartley era constraints as they may decide if a steel strike would cripple the economy.
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Washington
US Steel Corporation
Ben Fairless
US Steel
Enders Voorhees
New York
J. P. Morgan and Company
J. P. Morgan
America
Elbert Gary
Myron Taylor
Vatican
Dwight Morrow
Mexico
Thomas W. Lamont
Morgan
Tom Lamont
Giant
Steel Corporation
Labor
Voorhees
Fairless
J. P. Morgan Masters
White House
Enders McClumpha Voorhees
Amsterdam
N. Y
Young Voorhees
Johns- Manville Company
Voorhees School of Management
CIO
Senate
Truman
Toto
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Winchell on Broadway Rainbow of Celebrity Snippets
A breezy roundup from Broadway and New York society notes Franchot Tone Jeanne Crain Joe Louis and others out and about. Gossip lists Mary Martin Pass and DiMaggio charity while digs at Hollywood types and stage life amid playful quips and salvos.
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Franchot Tone
5Th
Paris Soir
Jeanne Crain
Champ Joe Louis
A. Jolson
Dinty Moore
Admiral Wm. Bull Halsey Ankling
Park Avenue
Sarah Churchill
M. Berle
Lindy’s
Hi Phillips
Graziano
Fusari
H’wood
Rocky
Kirk Douglas
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McCallum High School
Barton Springs
Boy Scout Club
Zilker Park
American Legion
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Austin Trades Council
Allan Shivers
By Herblock
John L. Deal
Philip Murray
Murray
United Mine Workers
Welfare Fund
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New Mexico
North America
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United States
James Mooney
Canada
Greenland
Alaska
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Drew Pearson
Pigeon Run
Ohio
Justus
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Ohio Northern University
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Central Steel Company
Republic Steel
Blanche Truby
Hazel Sproul
Jack Sproul
Pennsylvania
Hatfield
Steel
Copa
G. J. Nathan
Mary Martin
Bob Hope
Arden & Fletcher
3 Suns
Victo
Noro Morales
Jose Curbelo
China Doll
Anne Sheldon
London
Lucille Ball
Columbia
Miss Grant
Richmond
Kenny Bros
Broadway
Ty Powers
Linda Christian
Quick
Bronx
Ruth Dauchy
Zoo
Margaret Arlen
CBS
H. Griffiths
Westchester
Joe DiMaggio
Polio Fund
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Sam Goldwyn
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