Second Bikini Bomb Wrecks Havoc On Pacific Fleet
Western Newspaper Union reports a second Bikini atoll test with a 21000 ton battleship Arkansas sinking within minutes and a 33000 ton carrier Saratoga also going down. Other vessels including New York Nagato Hughes Fallon suffered severe damage as radioactivity and blast exceeded expectations.
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Bikini Lagoon
Pacific
Arkansas
Saratoga
New York
Nagato
Hughes
Fallon
Russia Rejects International Atomic Control Plan
At a United Nations atomic energy committee meeting in New York Soviet representative Gromyko rejected eliminating the veto in atomic regulation and the idea of an independent control agency, saying the Big Five must retain unanimity. He followed up by stressing U S proposals undermine postwar peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bikini
Pacific
Russia
United Nations Atomic Energy Committee
New York
Gromyko
U. S
U.N. Security Council
Truman
OPA
Super Price Control Board
Anderson
Control Board
Urban Transit Traffic Remains High Post War Restrictions
Urban transit systems in the United States report continued heavy passenger volumes at wartime highs as private car restrictions ease. Nationwide street car and bus lines see sustained demand, with 89 240 street vehicles operating nationwide and rising commuter usage cited by transit officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Freight rates and wartime policy shift across multiple reports
Hearings on a proposed permanent 25 percent freight rate increase focus on livestock and agricultural tariffs, with H A Scandrett of The Milwaukee Road arguing against favorable low tariffs. Other items cover postwar Soviet leadership shifts, Truman flood control bills, and a diphtheria death toll rise across U S cities in 1945.
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Raps
Interstate Commerce Commission
H. A. Scandrett
The
Milwaukee Road
Scandrett
Truman
Missouri River Basin
Great Mistake in Europe Stirs Washington Debate
An Army officer cites America's wartime choices and argues the U S should have stayed out of Europe until Russia was defeated. The column weighs Roosevelt Churchill and Eisenhower views, OPA politics, and a barber union offer to spread atomic age facts.
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Georgi Zhukov
Great
Red Army
Odessa
Communist Party
Russia
Michail Tukhachevsky
Zhukov
Stalin
Europe
Germany
America
England
Dunkirk
Churchill
Balkans
Greece
Berlin
France
Low Countries
Italy
U S Weighs Moves Over Manchurian Rebuild Plan
Edwin W. Pauley revealed Washington was considering measures to reinforce the Manchurian economy at Soviet expense after Russia stripped industrial equipment there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Russia
Edwin W. Pauley
Forest Fires Edge Timber Losses in 1945 Report
Waste resources suffered sizable losses with merchantable timber and young growth destroyed, totaling over 5 million dollars. About 27 percent of 1045 fires on protected areas were attributed to incendiary origin.
Barbs by Bankhag on farm labor and retail tricks
The column comments on price rises and profits as groceries and meat rise in price. It notes hired hands may work shorter hours and cows may shift milking times. The author jokes about butter and a clerk mixing strawberry cream into a chocolate soda and charging for it.
Low Cost Upholstery Protection Guide for Furniture
Instructions 841 provide step by step directions for slipcovers for six chairs four foot stools and a couch. The guide presents a simple affordable approach to protecting existing furniture and extending its life.
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Crossroads
Bombay
India
Pauley
Manchuria
U. S. Public Health Service
Palestine
Britain
Holy Land
London
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Jerusalem
King David
Ohio Valley
Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway
Lower
Mississippi
Red- Ouchita Basin
Journal of the American Medical Association
President Truman
Warren Magnuson
Dem
Wash
Rep
John Rankin
Miss
Washington Digest
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Boswell
Butcher
State Department
Security Council
Ghengis Khan
Congress
House of Representatives
Lillian C. Watford
Tri-State Atomic Information Committee
Washington
Barbers
White House
Senate
House
Secretary of State
Hull
Cordell
Bankhag
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
Arboil
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville
Tenn
Yodora
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