Tax Cut Tops GOP Agenda in First 80th Congress
The article reports Rep. Harold Knutson proposing a 20 percent personal income tax cut and hearings to cut excise taxes on goods like jewelry and cosmetics. GOP aims to reduce the 40 billion dollar budget to 32 billion while retiring debt, with broader aims on labor, wartime powers, and postwar policy.
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Harold Knutson
Rep
Minn
Knutson
Ways and Means Committee
Truman
GOP
Canned Goods Outlook from 1946 Produce Surge
Trade spokesmen at the ninth annual convention of the Grocery Institute in Chicago predict heavy packing in 1946 with over 190 million cases of canned vegetables and 75 million cases of canned fruit. Shortfalls in distribution are blamed on limited warehousing and shortage of refrigerator cars despite ample frozen storage.
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Supermarket Institute
Chicago
Labor Regulation Votes Shift Power in Four States
Nebraska and South Dakota adopted constitutional amendments banning the closed shop by large margins, while Arizona passed a similar measure narrowly. Massachusetts voted to require unions to disclose financial records, 406 827 to 227 307, as organized labor opposed all amendments.
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Nebraska
South Dakota
Arizona
Massachusetts
Foreign Trade Surges as U S Loans Boost 1946 Purchases
U S loans expected to finance about 35 percent of total exports estimated at 8 billion dollars. Canada Latin American nations and European countries post substantial postwar gains, with Canada up near 200 percent, Latin America 300 percent, continental Europe 150 percent, and the United Kingdom 50 percent higher than prewar levels.
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Uncle Sam
Canada
United Kingdom
Livestock Admissions Rise in 1946 United States Report
During fiscal year 1946 the United States admitted 25 972 breeding animals across classes. Horses from foreign countries totaled 116 cattle 21 482 sheep 3 062 swine 647 and dogs 665. The year shows an increase of about 3000 head from 1945 with cattle chiefly dairy breeds rising.
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United Departmen Agricultur
Real Shell Shock Found by Army Medical Officers
Army medical officers report a condition called shell shock, a mental and physical state caused by blast effects on the brain. In World War I the condition appeared widely among troops and impacted service.
Farm Income Drafts Slight Dip for 1947
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics projects gross farm income at 27 billion dollars for 1947 a five percent decline from 1946 levels due to higher operating costs. Net income could fall 10 to 15 percent as production expenses rise to two percent above 1938 and well above 1920 levels.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Truman proposes UN trusteeship with U S base control
President Truman seeks a nominal United Nations trusteeship for strategic Pacific bases while keeping ultimate American authority over the outposts. UN inspectors could be excluded from key centers. The plan aims to balance U S military control with wider UN cooperation and equal trade rights for other member nations.
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Pacific
United Nations
Truman
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Army
Navy
Department of State
U N assesses contributions. Vandenberg protests per capita rule
The administrative and budgetary committee of the United Nations set the U S share at 49.89 percent of annual costs based on per capita income. Vandenberg challenged the plan saying if the American system yields half the world’s income other nations should copy it. Britain was taxed 10.5 percent and Russia 6 percent.
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U.N
U. S
International Organization
Vandenberg
Britain
Russia
America
Coal labor clash over shorter week and wages threaten industry
Company spokesmen attack John L. Lewis new wage and hour demands for the United Mine Workers as risky amid gas and oil competition. UMW economists claim a five day week would cut costs enough to fund a 25 cent hourly raise. Old contracts paid 1.18 1/2 cents per hour with overtime after 35 hours.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
Emoto Praised for Prisoner Care in Yokohama Trial Notes
Allied reports say Lt. Col. Chigeo Emoto improved conditions at a Hako date PV camp after Japanese authorities escalated concern over high prisoner deaths. Beatings ceased, rations rose, prisoners worked only required hours, and burials were honored for natural deaths. PW inmates hailed Emoto as brightening their lives.
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Yokohama
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Chigeo Emoto
U. S
Toshio Hatakayama
Hakodate
Emoto
Pw’s
United Nations meets in New York to chart war to peace efforts
Washington columnist notes UN committees in a converted wartime factory in Lake Success shaping world opinion and budget allocations. He observes Russia using obstructionist tactics, translators like Pavlov and Molotovs interplay, and contrasts US foreign policy with past debates, stressing emerging American leadership in global affairs.
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United Nations
Assembly of the United Nations
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Assembly
Security Council
Senate
Council of Foreign Ministers
New York
Barbs and banalities in a Cold War aside from Bankhage
A collection of sharp one liners and opinions about the United Nations, Russia, caviar and communism. The quips touch on atomizers as weapons and the distinction between a Communist and a fellow traveler. Paul Scott Mowrer is cited on Russia’s supposed permanent low mood.
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United Nations
Paul Scott Mowrer
Russia
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