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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1947
Page
2
The Western Newspaper Union reports the telephone strike has been settled. The House votes to cut the Navy budget while World Relief announces a needs survey. Editorial note says opinions reflect the Western Newspaper Union.
The six week national telephone workers strike ends as 20 000 members of the Association of Communication Equipment Workers accept an 11 14 cent hourly increase from Western Electric. Harmony returns with no major new strikes, while lawmakers cut navy appropriations and pressure officials to reduce peacetime officer ranks.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced a global survey to study postwar needs before deciding on foreign aid programs. He noted 78 million dollars for Korea with no immediate further appropriations, while the State Department seeks possible aid for China justified to the public and Congress. The Korea fund will rebuild roads rails and industries in the U S zone.
The Navy proposes a five year 210 million dollar plan to build and convert submarines, aiming for a fleet of 100 by 1951. It includes a new hunter ship designed to track and destroy enemy subs in all weather, amid concerns about German WWII designs and Soviet undersea advances. Vice Admiral Robert B. Carney notes the target completion year.
The Department of Agriculture recommends a 13 percent rise in pig production this fall to add five million pigs to market next spring and summer. Beef and veal supplies are forecast to be tighter in 1848.
Fire losses in the United States surged past all prior 12 month periods, with the national board of fire underwriters reporting a fatal total of 616 million dollars. This figure shows a 22 percent rise from the previous year’s 497 million, and early months of the ship year eclipsed losses from 1933 1937 or 1938.
A prosy collage of aphorisms and quotes. The page lists quotations from Mark Twain Cervantes and Alphonse Karr alongside brief lines about wind lamps caves and labor and rest. The fragmentary text presents a miscellany of maxims with no narrative.
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