Profit Report Challenged by Auto Makers
The Automobile Manufacturers Association charged the commerce department report on wage gains as bias and unfounded. George Romney urged a reexamination based on available facts, denouncing unions as a monopoly and calling for breaking up union control to allow constructive, legal participation by unions.
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Automobile Manufacturers Association
Commerce Department
Association
George Romney
Wallace
Romney
Manufacturers Association
Auto Union
Auto Combine
Edgar A. Guest The Poet of the People
A brief poem by Edgar A Guest reflecting on aging year, bare trees, and lingering faith. It contrasts winter harshness with the promise of spring, noting birds departing and flowers sleeping, yet affirming enduring hope.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Fins to Steady Ships May Ease Sea Sickness
Ocean travel could be easier with ships fitted with fins to reduce seasickness. British shipbuilders on the Clyde report the fins are practicable, with stabilizing devices tested on sloops and destroyers during the war years.
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London
Ins
Clyde River
Cedar Rapids Firms Push Housing Plan To Speed Jobs
City leaders and business advocates press for rapid housing growth to house workers for new construction and industry. Veterans and labor officials discuss expanding apprentice programs, 48 hour weeks, and zoning changes to convert large homes into rentals, with sites capable of housing groups of 100.
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Cedar Rapids
Merrill
Hahn
C C. Loomis
City Zoning Commission
Loomis
Veterans Housing Talk Raises War To Homes Plan Proposals
In Cedar Rapids a public meeting on veteran housing highlighted proposals to rezone and convert houses into apartments, urging favorable action while noting higher remodeling costs and wage scales. Speakers included builders, realtors, and union reps who pressed for temporary housing, space advertising, and child-friendly homes.
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Frank Welch
Peoples Savings Bank
Selective Service Board No. 2
Cedar Rapids
Howard McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Walter Shadle
Carpenters Union
George Naxera
Bruce McKay
McKay
Shadle
Frank L. Buser
Malcolm V. Bolton
City council votes for housing committees and emergency plan
The council adjournment debate leads to a motion empowering the mayor to appoint a committee on long range housing. An amendment to create two committees, one long range and one for immediate emergency, is unanimously approved. Killian proposes a potential million dollar corporation if needed. William Smith urges housing to match workers’ incomes.
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Eugene C. Hoyt
Gazette
Killian
William Smith
Industrial Union Council
Chicago Surplus Sale Crosses Million Monthly Total
Chicago's largest white elephant sale brings in over a million dollars each month as about 500 buyers haggle with Reconstruction Finance Corporation staff over more than 5,000 Federal surplus items. The stock, mostly machinery and tools from military sites, is offered to civilians for the first time since Pearl Harbor. Prices start around one hundred dollars for used aircraft, with lathes and drills among the goods.
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Chicago
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Surplus Industrial Goods Move Through Chicago RFC Network
The bulk buyers, including discharged servicemen, shift to civilian production as surplus items from railroad locomotives to precision tools flood the market. The Chicago RFC salesroom, one of 31 nationwide, serves northern Illinois Indiana and adjacent states with machinery and materials from war plants in Chicago Fort Wayne and South Bend. A two week sales total reached 516000 with 1272 tons of wood pulp sold for 111201 and smaller items like nine valves purchased by a Milwaukee tannery for 9.59.
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Chicago Rfc
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Indiana
Wisconsin
Iowa
Chicago
Fort Wayne
South Bend
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