Senate backs atomic energy bill amid draft extension talk
The Senate approved a national atomic energy development and control bill creating a special commission and advisory panels with monopoly powers over production and materials. It also extended the draft to May 1947 with varying age and service limits and faced House differences on pay raises and eligibility.
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Senate Committee On Atomic Energy
McMahon
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Conn
Commission On
Army and Navy
Special Commission
House Representatives
Navy
Senate-House
Senate Banking Committee
Elim
Record Spending Indicates Lower 1946 Savings
The first quarter spending pace of U.S. consumers suggests savings this year will be far below 1945. With income likely under 1945 and total spending at a record level, a portion of disposable income may be consumed.
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United States
Department of Commerce
America
Europe
Asia
You
Trends and surprises in the 1946 primary results
The piece surveys scattered primary outcomes across states including California Alabama New Jersey and the national impact on 1948 presidential prospects. It notes Gov Earl Warren sweeping California and CIO PAC dynamics with Knowland Rogers Folsom and others as well as Truman Vinson and UN moves shaping liberal and foreign policy debates. It also mentions Pennsylvania driving clinics and rising postwar traffic concerns.
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California
Knowland
Will Rogers Jr
Rogers
Alabama
Luther Patrick
Birmingham
James E
Big Jim
Folsom
PAC
New Jersey
CIO
Kenny
Warren
Chicago
Safety Measures Highlighted By Civil Aeronautics Board Study Groups
Air travel safety updates describe ductile instrument panels control wheels and knee injury reducing structure removals. Coordination involves the safety bureau of the Civil Aeronautics Board and study groups in the army air forces and the navy.
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Safey Bureau
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Army Air Forces
Navy
Washington Digest on Mail Power in Congress and Price Policy
A Washington column analyzes how personal mail and public opinion shape congressional action on price control and labor measures. It notes NORC polls favor keeping price controls, while unions and industrial lobbyists push opposing views. The piece cites executive action and reader letters showing public influence but argues Congress weighs inputs from mail, visits, and polls over time.
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Congress
NORC
National Opinion Research Center of Denver University
House
OPA
Paul Porter
Bowles
National Manufacturers’ Association
White House
Woodrow Wilson
Congressional
The
Barbs by Bankhag on butter prices and rationing
The column jokes about butter price rises and cow production, paring down to a quip on inflation and competition. It notes a high speed fall and slow parachute descent as a humorous aside. It ends with a mother bird crying for crusts during bread rationing and a joke about worms.
Spool Shelves for Interesting Trinkets
Graceful corner shelves ten inches wide seven inches deep at the bottom designed to hold a quaint match holder a china doll head and other trinkets. Pattern No 255 provides full directions and an actual size design for three curved corner shelves with patterns for larger sets.
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