Eisenhower names Durkin labor secretary pick
President elect Eisenhower taps Martin P. Durkin a 58 year old AFL Plumbers Union leader and Democrat as labor secretary. Durkin says Taft Hartley can be amended to satisfy both labor and management and hints at restoring mediation services. Durkin's appointment marks a notable shift in labor relations at the start of the Eisenhower administration.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Eisenhower
Labor Department
Martin P. Durkin
AFL Plumbers Union
Labor
AFI
Durkin
Adlai E. Stevenson
AFL
CIO
Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Meany
Meany
New York
Sen. Watkins
Utah
Tobin
Plumbers Union
Beavers Target Mississippi Dam At Credit Island Park
Davenport Iowa reports beavers are cutting trees at Credit Island Park with the aim to dam the Mississippi River. Naturalists note beavers usually bite saplings and build dams, but the only water at the park is the river itself. Park workers have daubed tree trunks with a tasteless coating to deter the animals from chewing more.
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Davenport
Mississippi River
Credit Island Park
Credit Island
Mississippi
Sarongs Surviving Slash in Imports
Singapore reports that Masao Takakura warns Japanese textile workers may shift to other heavy industries if the export slump continues. Indonesia cut imports of Japanese textiles due to unfavorable trade balance, leaving only cambric and sarongs currently imported.
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Singapore
Southeast Asia
Masao Takakura
Indonesia
Estimated English speakers worldwide likely around 250 million
A report estimates that roughly 250 million people around the world speak English. The figure highlights English as a major global language, connected to education, media, and communication networks.
Conference Groups Seek Peace in Airline Engineers Strike
A mediation team from Eastern Air Lines and the National Mediation Board met with AFL Flight Engineers International Association leaders in Miami to end a wage dispute that grounded Constellation flights across the East. Flight engineers, earning about 5160 to 8160 yearly for 85 hours monthly, rejected terms. EAL offered 5700 to 9000, matching recent settlements at National Airlines and Trans World.
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Miami
Fla.p
Eastern Air Lines Flight Engineers
National Mediation Board
EAL
Constellation
United States
Leverett Edwards
Antigravity device aids polio victims shown at AMA
Denver reports a new anti gravity machine demonstrated at the AMA Clinical session. Dr A W Schenker says it lets paralyzed patients move limbs with minimal resistance, training muscles by light to tougher exercise. The device helps those with remaining fibers but cannot revive dead nerves.
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Denver
American Medical Association
AMA
A. W. Schenker
New York City
Dr. Schenker
N D Newsman Takes Kansas Job
Fargo brief reports Newell Anderson 26 leaves Tupelo Miss after being beaten by hooded men who opposed Yankees. He will start Wednesday as circulation manager for the Kansas City Kansan, a daily newspaper.
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Fargo
N. D
Newell Anderson
Tupelo
Miss
Anderson
Kansas City Kansan
Eastern Air Lines Engineers Walk Out Grounds Fleet
AFL Flight Engineers International Association members walked out at Eastern Air Lines grounding Constellation planes east of the Mississippi after weeks of failed contract talks. About a dozen major points from St. Louis to New York and Boston to Miami saw affected service while the DC-4s and Martin 404s continued on schedule.
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Puerto Rico
Eddie V. Rickenbacker
EAL
Rickenbacker
Constellation
Sidney R. Carter
New York
National Airlines
Transworld Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines Inc
Barefooted Rescue in Minneapolis Fire
L. J. Hendrickson aged 43 ran barefoot through snow to rescue Patrick Tierney 21 and three others from a burning home. The two men aided Mr and Mrs Jerome Forsberg and their two year old son Steven from a third floor apartment. Fire Chief Reynold Malmquist estimated damage at 25000 dollars.
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Minneapolis
L. J. Hendrickson
Patrick Tierney
Jerome Forsberg
Steven
Reynold Malmquist
11 Percent Tax Cut Proposal From Reed Advances
Rep Daniel A Reed proposed an 11 percent cut in individual income taxes and elimination of the excess profits tax on corporations. He anticipates bipartisan support and views the plan as the first step in a Republican program to reduce taxes and curb government waste.
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Washington
Congress
Daniel A. Reed
Reed
Stork restricted on landings at Scott AFB Hospital
The stork must land at Scott Air Force Base Hospital no more than 60 times monthly. Excessive trips must use civilian facilities. Area servicemen with wives in Southern Illinois and nearby states previously enjoyed free delivery, but growth to about 1,500 families at the base prompted the new maternity ward quota.
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Belleville, Il
Scott Air Force Base
Ilnois
Air officers offered indefinite reserve appointments
The 10th Air Force Reserve Officers are being mailed forms to accept indefinite appointments under the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952. Current five year commissions remain valid until their normal expiration or April 1, 1953. Reservists are urged to complete and return the forms promptly.
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10Th Air Force Reserve
Air Reserve
Armed Forces Reserve Act
Typhoon Alarm Stations Set Off East China Waters
Communist Peiping radio reports 24 typhoon alarm stations established in key fishing waters off China's coast. The Red broadcast claims 3,400,000 people are employed in the fishing industry.
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San Francisco
Peiping Radio
East
China
Red
American Russian Born Paris Educated Makes Film in Egypt
Victor Stoloff an American born in Russia and educated in Paris returned from Egypt claiming to have produced the first English language film there. He stories how he secured permission to shoot Tales of Cairo, faced a near confiscation as Farouk fell, and built a package of script money and talent. Cairo boasts ten studios and a thriving Arabic film industry with an audience of about 100 million.
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Paris
Egypt
Hollywood
Russia
France
Victor Stoloff
Munich
Stoloff
U. S
Cairo
Help Truth Fight Communism Crusade for Freedom Appeal
Radio Free Europe broadcasts Truth behind the Iron Curtain as the fight against communism in the Cold War. Citizens are urged to enroll in the Crusade for Freedom and send contributions through local postmasters in cooperation with The Advertising Council.
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Radio Free Europe
Crusade For Freedom
The
Advertising Council, Inc
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