Meat Shortage Challenges Housewives and Policy Makers
Weekly analysis notes housewives seeking scarce meat while policy makers struggle with OPA suspension and low cattle supplies. It cites packer layoffs, calls to restore free markets, and predicted partial relief from fall grass-fed cattle. It also covers U S reparations stance, Canadian farmer strikes, and UN plans for Greece reconstruction with a 100 million loan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Department of Agriculture
AFL
Truman
OPA
OPA Crime Photo Spurs Tough Auto Market Crackdown
A Los Angeles OPA agent is shown grabbing a car salesman by the throat while enforcing price ceilings on new and used autos. Six salesmen were arrested and 65 more were arraigned for OPA violations as the agency intensifies its drive to curb the black market. A Trans-Luxury Airlines crash survivor, two-year-old Peter Link, is on the road to recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
OPA
U. S
Washington
Trans-Luxury Airlines
Elko
Nev
Peter Link
Labor Revolt Strikes 25000 Unionists In New York
Union members in New York City stage a mass walkout described as the worst rank and file revolt in history. Dan Tobin, at Mayor O Dwyer’s request, orders 10000 sympathy strikers in 23 locals to return to work and proposes an 18 cent hourly raise for 15000 strikers as a negotiation basis. The strike disrupts food transport and threatens multiple industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
New York City
IBT Pres
Dan Tobin
O’dwyer
Taft Warns GOP Victory Will Shape 1949 Platform
Ohio Republican Bob Taft outlines a conservative program for a GOP congressional win, calling for ending price and wage controls by April 1 1947 with rents exempted, ending the second war powers act, and ending conscription unless war erupts. He ties adoption to 1949 if Truman remains unpopular. Democrats read Maine results as softer GOP majorities. U.S. relief to Eastern Europe totals 466 million in lend lease and UNRRA aid, with Poland Yugoslavia and others receiving hundreds of millions.
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Ohio
White House
Columbus
Bob Taft
Taft
GOP
Truman
Maine
U. S
Russia
Soviet Bloc
Europe
Poland
Yugoslavia
Romania
Hungary
Albania
la Follette
Congress
Democratic Party
Senator la Follette
Senate
Walsh
Massachusetts
Wagner
New York
States Move to Spur Housing via Appropriations Action
National Association of Housing Officials reports state action to spur housing through appropriations and enabling legislation. Since January four states have appropriated emergency housing funds. New York appropriated 35 million dollars in the 1946 legislative session for statewide projects under federal aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Housing Officials
New York
Squatter Drive Raises Uproar in Britain and Washington Debates
Articles describe communist led squatter evictions in Britain with police guarding estates and warnings of anarchy. In Washington, debate over surplus property from war programs, especially aluminum plants, fuels calls for reform and a new administrator as Small Business Committee investigates distribution and potential monopolies.
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John Bull
Britain
Labor Party
Attlee
Geneva
Utah
United States Steel Corporation
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation
Rockies
Chenoweth
Colorado
Small Business Committee
Murray
Aluminum Company of America
Stuart Symington
Egypt
WAA
Robert Littlejohn
Transit systems set record with 23.254 billion riders
New record shows 23.254 billion passengers carried on national urban transit lines last year, an increase of 237 million above the prior peak. The rise is attributed to the rapid shift of many industries from wartime to peacetime activities.
Barbs and Banter on Modern Life and Politics
A satirical column critiques water wagons, modern chairs, bars as crime deterrents, and the clash between lobbyists and voters. It notes Heidelberg’s rector on tolerance and mocks political rhetoric and apple imagery in a humorous political-scape vignette.
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Western Newspaper Union
Willard Thorp
State Department
Italy
Thorp
Great Britain
Canada
Alberta Farmers’ Union
Saskatchewan
Greece
United Nations Commission
F. S. Harris
Utah Agricultural College
Food and Agriculture Organization
Copenhagen
Denmark
Boulder Dam
France
Field Marshal
Montgomery
Maj
Maxwell Taylor
West Point
LABOR
Teamsters Revolt
Politics
Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
D. C
War Assets Administration
Mead Committee
Bankhage
Heidelberg
Business & Invest
OPPOR
Ford
IHC
John Deere
Lehner
Box
Ness City
Kans
Kenyon Auto Stores
Dallas 1
Tex
E &L
Bentonvill
Arkansas
Farm Machinery & Equip
National
B. L. D. Mott & Sons
Braymer
Leavenworth
Ted Morrow
Kansas
Vienna
Annattan
Kansas City
Figley
7Th
A. R. DIX
Rockville
Missouri
H. H. Monroe Mountain Grove
J. N. Maddox
Nevada
United States
Chestnut St
St. Louis
Good Samaritan Hospital
Phoenix
Arts
Monett
Home Furnishings & Appli
Metyzner Stove —, Co
Kingsdown
Shrines Factory
Commercial St
Springfield
Terryhill
ST. Louis School OF Aeronautics
Kratz
Abeedeen
Priv
Miss Burgess
Lassie Blackbird
Erica
Crow
van Werden
Winterset
Iowa
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Meo
P. O. Box
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Baltimore
Chicago
Tulsa
Dallas
Houston
Phone Central
Biddie Street
California
Hollywood
Ventura Blvd
Encino
Cal
Wahlert & Guntzler
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Allis Chalmers
Martin Johnson Hardy
Iewa
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