Housing Bill Aims To Aid Small Homes
The Senate banking committee leaders reach accord on a plan to back low cost homes with up to 95 percent mortgage guarantees and rates near four percent. It envisions private builders and a mutual housing cooperative option with long terms and insurance charges, plus rental housing with controlled rents and 3 percent interest.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Wagner
D-N.y
Taft
Ohio
Ellender
D-Law
Wagner-Ellender
Fed
Eral Housing
Doughboys of the 76th Liberty Bell Reach Europe in 1945
The 76th Infantry Division nicknamed Liberty Bell celebrated Thanksgiving 1944 before sailing for Europe. They entered action February 1945 near Bitburg and fought along the Pruem and Moselle rivers, took Zeitz, cleared the Sale river, and helped link to Trier. They rescued Allied prisoners at Koenigstein Fortress and established a Mulde river bridgehead before V E day.
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Tenth Armored
Moselle
Trier
Kamburg
76Th
Sale
Zeitz
Leipzig
Koenigstein
Budd proposes helicopter shuttle tieup with railroads
Ralph Budd president of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Rail Road outlines an air division plan at a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing to link helicopters from small communities to the nearest railroad stations. He says helicopters would land at rail stations and ground crews would handle servicing and ticketing.
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New Orleans
Transportation Progress
Ralph Budd
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
Budd
Civil Aeronautics Board
Iowa Farm
Truman Proclaims November 22 Thanksgiving Day
President Truman designated November 22 as Thanksgiving Day and urged national unity with the United Nations to secure lasting peace. He warned of remaining world difficulties and the need for many vital decisions, honoring the war dead and Franklin D Roosevelt while calling for humility in celebration.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
X Ray Treatment For Hemophilia Reported At Meeting
Cincinnati AP reports a new therapy for hemophilia, the bleeder's disease, presented at the 39th annual Southern Medical Association meeting. Deeply penetrating x rays in small doses are claimed to promote clotting.
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Cincinnati
Southern Medical Association
Harvest of 1945 Peace and Soldiers’ Return
The speaker proclaims 1945 as a year of harvests including crops and military victory, then calls for a Day of Thanksgiving. The message urges finishing payments for weapons, bringing servicemen home quickly, healing the wounded, and assisting veterans to resume civilian life.
Hemophilia Patients Show Temporary Clotting Improvement
Doctors Macht and Ostro of Baltimore reported two cases where treated hemophilia blood clotted in less than half the prior time. The effect was temporary, fading after a couple of weeks, with no permanent cure. They stated the work is preliminary and may open new approaches to the condition.
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David I. Macht
Marcus Ostro
Baltimore
Lone G I with Wife Along in Japan
Szgt. Russell Hannegan with his wife W O (j g) Bessie Hannegan are the only enlisted Americans in Japan reportedly with their spouse. They met at Fort Leonard Wood and married as sergeants. Both deployed overseas in February. he to Europe and she to the Pacific, joining in Yokohama with the 97th infantry division.
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G.I
Japan
Tokyo
Szgt
Russell Hannegan
97Th Infantry Division
Jaapan
W.O
J.g
Bessie Hannegan
Army Exchange Purchasing Office
Fort Leonard Wood
Hannegan
Europe
Pacific
97Th
Yokohama
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