Hearings reopen on prices paid for Arabian oil
Senate War Investigations Committee hearings reopen on whether the Navy overpaid for Arabian oil during 1945 to 1947. James A. Moffett testified that the Navy paid about $1.05 a barrel instead of 40 cents, claiming an excess of about $83 million, while W S S Rodgers denied overcharges and called the 40 cent price plan never accepted by the government.
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United States
Saudi Arabia
Senator Browater
R-Me
America
Brewater
Senate War Investigation Committee
Navy
James A. Moffett
Bahrein Petroleum Company
Ita Distributing
California-Texan Oil Company
Moffett
Texas Company
Standard Oil of California
Bahrein Company
Roosevelt
King Ibn Saud
Standard of California
Arabian-American Oil Company
Aramco
W.ss. Rodgers
Gauthier seeks lost cat Buttons in Elmwood area
Five year old Jacqualine Gauthier requests help finding her seven month old cat Buttons. She describes Buttons as black with orange streaks and pleads to call 6 6207 if found, from her home at 48 Elmwood Avenue.
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E. E. Gauthier
Elmwood Avenues
Buttons
Jacqueline
Miles Gauthier
No Sugar Price Boost After Wartime Controls End
Washington reports that wartime sugar price controls will expire Friday night with no expected price increases. Officials say supply remains very good due to Cuban, Puerto Rican, and beet sugar, plus resumed Philippine shipments. Remaining Cuban and Puerto Rican stocks will sell at current control prices, as the government plans to exit the sugar business early next year.
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Agriculture Department
Philippines
Commodity Credit Corporation
Hartford appoints Frederick Reincke as county sheriff
Governor McConaughy named Frederick G. Reincke of Wethersfield to succeed the late Sheriff Joseph W. Harding of Bristol as Hartford County sheriff. Reincke, a World War II veteran and commander of the 168th Infantry, will serve at $6,000 a year until January 1949.
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