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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1946
Page
2
President Truman calls for rationing and conservation of meats dairy and fats to meet overseas relief needs amid warnings Europe faces severe calorie deficits. The plan includes boosting flour yield, limiting grain for alcohol, and exporting more food while cutting feed usage.
Federal revenue from alcoholic beverages reached 2.4 billion dollars in 1945, marking an all time high for the government as industry analysis by Internal Revenue Service officials noted strong wartime demand and tax collections.
Congress passes a diluted full employment bill creating an advisory council to report on employment and purchasing power with a seven member committee to act on recommendations. Debates arise over deficit spending while labor clashes at Gridley Ill. rail yard lead to murder charges against four guards. Armenian lands issue escalates as Arutinov calls for ceding Kars and Ardagan to Russia amid Turkish territorial tensions.
The article argues farmers should join the social security system under a self employed model, detailing how a farmer like Jake Duncan with less than $75 in annual sales could enroll with an assumed income of $400, paying 2 percent and receiving about $13 monthly at retirement. It compares benefits, survivor protection, and the idea of stamp book payments.
Total honey output reached 233 070 000 pounds in 1945, up 23 percent from 1944 and 19 percent above the 1939 44 average. Beekeepers saw higher prices and improved retail sales as production rose.
Green H. Hackworth of Chevy Chase Maryland has been elected to the 15 member International Court of Justice the main UNO organ for resolving international disputes and giving legal advice to agencies. He has long served as a state department adviser since 1925 and held multiple conferences and council roles. He will earn twenty thousand two hundred dollars annually.
The agriculture department reports a continued rise in farm land values and a moderate decline in sale volumes in 1944 45. Nationally land values climbed about 50 percent during World War II versus a 25 percent rise in World War I.
The remarks mock demobilization pace and suggest equal influence with Nicaragua. Tugucigalpa is noted as railroadless, and a satirical line imagines ships as auto ferries capable of carrying many autos. A jab on price controls ends with a quip about purse-control.
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