Accidents and Disarmament Dominate Postwar Briefs
A weekly analysis surveys wartime losses with 100000 deaths in 1946 and 10.4 million injuries, argues U S Soviet disarmament talks hinge on A bomb control, and notes British plans to curb divorce through welfare and religious groups. It reports on Truman succession ideas, Byrd Antarctic findings, Paris fashion, rail stocks and postwar labor peace efforts.
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Marina
Marshall
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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AFL Building Trades Unions
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National Conference Committee
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France aims to weaken Germany at Moscow talks
France plans to dismember Germany into loosely federated states and detach the Ruhr from the rest of the country at the forthcoming foreign ministers conference in Moscow. The move follows repeated German aggression over 75 years and seeks to emasculate the reich through political restructuring.
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France
Moscow
Germany
Reich
Ruhr
Appliances Become Commonplace In U S Homes
A nationwide survey by the National Family Opinion organization finds electric irons in over 98 percent of homes and radios in 90 percent. Combining radio phonographs, mixers, roasters, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, automatic washers, and sewing machines, the report shows widespread ownership of electrical appliances across households.
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National Family Opinion Organization
Easy and Inexpensive Rugs You Can Make
A 4 page booklet offers step by step instructions for hooked woven braided and crocheted rugs. It suggests burlap or salvaged fabrics as bases and old clothes as material. Send 25 cents for New Ideas for Hand made Rugs to Weekly Newspaper Service at 243 W 17th St New York NY 10011.
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Rockets to brake speeding trains and planes in emergencies
Collier's reports that rocket power, once used for propulsion, could soon brake aircraft and trains in emergencies. Experts estimate a 1500 foot train stop reduced to 375 feet with forward firing rockets on the locomotive, adding one fourth of the braking distance.
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Collier’s
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