Idigh Prices Reduce Liquor Sales Across Regions
Retail liquor sales have fallen at least 25 percent since January due to consumer resistance to high prices. Industry sources say no plan to return to prewar prices, with producers shifting to more lower quality volume. Beer sales also slipped slightly due to box car shortages, while inflation concerns hit New York and Ohio markets hard.
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Chicago
Ch ‘Es J Fleck
Alimos Liquor Control Commission
California
New York
Pacnge
Ohio
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Shington
Vandenberg and Knowland clash with McKellar over Lilienthal case
Senate leaders defend David Lilienthal against McKellar's charges of communism. Knowland says no evidence ties Lilienthal to communism as the atomic energy committee probes his AEC chair nomination. McKellar asserts Lilienthal should have known of Communist presence in TVA and presses for accountability.
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LaFollette
Wisconsin
Senate
Tennessee Valley
Lilienthal
Washington
INS
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Sen
Knowland
McKellar
TVA
Two Tiny Chums Found Asleep in Dense Woods
In Nottingham New Hampshire two children Reginald Wentworth aged four and Bruce McGowen aged three wandered from home at noon. State police located the boys asleep in a dense woods about a mile and a half away. They were reported in good physical condition as a 250 member search party sought them before a snowstorm.
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Nottingham
N. H
Reginald Wentworth
Bruce McGowen
Royce McGowen
Roy Wentworth
McGowen
Bernard Holmes
George Morrison
Butcher and helper saved after nine hours in icebox
Cecil Butler a 35 year old butcher and his 16 year old helper Johnny Rhodes were trapped in a Charleston West Virginia meat market icebox for nine hours after the door jammed and the inner handle snapped. Butler improvised a screwdriver from a meat hook and jimmied the thermostat raising the temperature from 32 to 50 degrees. An alert newsboy heard pounding and alerted rescuers. both men were very weak upon liberation at about six pm.
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Charleston
W. Va
Cecil Butler
Butler
Johnny Rhodes
Coor
Forrest Godby
Charleston Daily Mail
McNarney Calls for Civilian Governor in U S Zone Germany
General Joseph T McNarney, commander of the American occupation zone in Germany, urged appointing a civilian state department governor for the U S zone to aid military rule. He said 10 to 15 years of occupation may be needed, with focus on vital areas like the Ruhr. He noted slow Allied cooperation, hoped Moscow would resolve disputes, and said Soviet passes would reopen the Soviet zone to American correspondents with proper credentials.
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Berlin
INS
Joseph T. McNarney
Germany
State Department
United States Zone
McNarney
Robert P. Patterson
Ruhr
Allied Control Council
Russia
Moscow
Wassily Sokolovsky
Soviet Zone
Industrial workers set record average hourly pay in 25 industries
New York AP report shows December average hourly earnings among 25 manufacturing industries at 1.247 dollars, highest on record and 12.2 percent above June 1945 wartime peak when earnings were 1.111 dollars.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
I Mr. ZYXW Files His Tax Return
CHICAGO AP Mr ZYXW files his income tax return for the sixth year in a row using a blank marked with his initials. Nigel Campbell of the internal revenue service says the past six years show unfilled forms with ZYXW initialed and cash enclosed. Last year $700 was received and this year $1700 was promised in four separate envelopes for safety. Campbell has already received $1000 across three envelopes and expects the final $700 soon.
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Chicago
Zyxw
Nigel Campbell
Internal Revenue
Campbell
Revenue Department
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