Weekly News Analysis Highlights China Ferrying and Wage Clarity
The piece notes U.S. withdrawal from China prompting concern over Russian aid to Chinese Communists while Secretary Marshall sought peace with Nationalists. It details Labor Department action on wage equalization across Big Five packing plants, reducing pay disparities and laying out collective bargaining, with retroactive costs estimated at 30 million dollars. It also covers railroad car logistics, Peron’s Argentine development plans, and tax policy debates in the Republican-led Congress focusing on exemptions and tax cuts for varying income levels.
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U. S
China
Marshall
Port Arthur
Dairen
Russia
Moscow
Orient
Department of Labor
Swift, Wilson, Cudahy
Armour and Morrell
AFL, Cio
Yom
United Steel Workers
U. S. Steel Corporation
Republican Congress
Knutson
Rep
Minn
House
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Engel
Rep. Mich
Engel
Democratic Party
Farm equipment makers post big 1946 totals and 1947 optimism
International Harvester posts 1946 sales of 482.3 million with 22.3 million profit while Deere and Oliver report strong farm implement demand. The period notes production shifts after the war and plans for plant investments. The piece also covers Palestine tensions, postwar German leadership warnings from Kurt Schumacher and Britain’s export-import balance, plus a surge in World War II veterans reinstating service life insurance.
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International Harvester
Congress Reorganization Tested by Senate Debates
Washington notes the 80th Congress reviews the reorganization plan focusing on two special committees, Taft staff advice, and the push for expert help. It discusses potential practical limits, attendance, and proposed reforms to reduce deadlocks and patronage while preserving flexibility.
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Washington
80Th Congress
Senate
Taft
Congress
House
Joint Congressional Committee
George
Rogers
Makes Farming Pay Gideon Mettler in California Farm Boom
Gideon E. Mettler, in fatigues, cleared 40000 dollars from 240 acres near McFarland in his first postwar year. He profited mainly from potatoes though corn drew attention. He notes Central Valley Project insect-free conditions aided his success and credits his father with half his earnings.
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Gideon E. Mettler
McFarland
Calif
Mettler
Central Valley
Reed Warns to End West Boxcar Shortage
Senator Reed from Kansas moves to draft permanent legislation to relieve the chronic boxcar shortage caused by East seaboard railroad stockpiling. West grain elevators and mills press for cars as transport bottlenecks persist for a fifth time in three years.
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Seaboard
Senator Reed
Kas
Reed
Virginia forms commission to boost small local industry
In Virginia the governor appointed a commission to study developing small locally owned industries to process agricultural produce grown nearby as part of broader Southern industrial expansion. The move targets new manufacturing opportunities to further regional industrialization below the Mason-Dixon line.
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Palestine
Holy Land
London
U. S
Britain
Mason-Dixon Line
South
Virginia
Barbs on banking plan for house sergeant at arms
The speaker mocks proposed privatizing the house sergeant at arms banking functions, noting that the dollar is shrinking and joking a bank would not eagerly take the job. The remark highlights skepticism about outsourcing the office’s financial duties.
Critics ask why a senator can be president in taft era
Bankhage Memo questions critic Taft and Vanden berg and argues that any American boy may aspire to presidency. Chicago butter cost about 22 cents a pound below current June delivery prices, with a hope it won’t have melted by then.
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Taft
Vandenberg, Et al
Chicago
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Suvorov Military School
Berlin
Manchuria
Nathan
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Oliver
Near Eastern Arab League
Germany
Social Democratic Party
Lean
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Reich
Schumacher
Versailles
Hitler
Saar
Washington Digest
By Baukhage
WNU Service
Eye Street
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Washington, D. C
George B. Galloway
Monroney - LaFollette
Congressional Committee
House Committee On Rules
Baukhage
By Bankhage
Dr. Caldwell
Caldwell Senna
Pepsin
America
Soretone Liniment
Sterlex
Dept of A Vericulture
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Fidelity Sales CO
Genesseo
Kenses City
WNU
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