Name President Truman's principal military aide quiz
A clipped testing item asks ten trivia questions about history science and geography. It lists Truman’s aide, boiling point effects, bullion coinage, New York senatorial opponents, Pantelleria’s sea, a pyrrhic victory, Detroit’s lake location, subcontinent split, Tennyson’s Idylls author, and Dr Moron’s Virginia college appointment.
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Truman
U. S
New York State
Pantelleria
Detroit
Great Lakes
Indian Subcontinent
India
Alonzo G. Moron
Virginia
State to seek state aid for Main Street wall at Findley Lake
Officials from state county and town plan a joint application to the State Department of Public Works to have a retaining wall built on Main Street, Route 430, plus a sidewalk at the game point. The wall is seen as beyond town and county authority. the sidewalk could be installed after the wall. The Findley Lake Improvement Association pressed lowering the lake level to reduce weeds, which has dried wells serving five properties. no decision was reached.
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Findley Lake
State Department of Public Works
Main Street
Mina
Allan A. Cass
Findley Lake Improvement Association
Slayer At Erie Held For Murder
Charles Hartwell, 28, charged with murder in the death of Sgt. Leo J. Waldinger, 37, at the Erie VA office. Hartwell, enraged over a denied disability pension, pistol whipped staff and held workers for over an hour until police arrived. Patrolman Walter May, 47, was wounded and remained in critical condition. Hartwell is being held in Erie County Prison for mental testing after discharge from the Army in 1948.
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Erie
Associated Preas Erie
Charles Hartwell
Hartwell
The
Veterans Administration
Leo J. Waldinger
Walter May
May
Arthur Criswell
Witness Threatening Slaving Threat Puts Witness Under Guard
November report from Pittsburg details a witness to a brutal killing, Miss Jean Brusno, 38, receiving a life-threatening call after sighting a man fleeing yesterday. Mrs. Flannagan, who witnessed the assault, is under police protection as 30 officers hunt the unknown attacker and a grisly scene is described near her home.
Federal rent controls lift in several states
The Wisconsin and Oklahoma actions show states substituting their own looser statutes for federal rent limits. Published notices discuss decontrol trends in multiple states, with figures indicating hundreds of thousands of units affected and rises averaging about 19 percent. The legality of the federal program and state measures is challenged in courts, with implications for the June 30 expiration.
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Wisconsin
Oklahoma
St. New York
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Wolahiman
Philadelphia
Wade Associated Press
Republica-P
New York
Gana
Cory
Washington
Pega Setridta Terriers
Chicago
Tess
ESNR
Spenl Tarthott
Bunreme
Congress
Rent Control on the Way Out
As the half completed renewal of federal rent control nears its end on June 30, signs point to decontrol. Housing starts in October surged to 950,000 for the year, easing the housing shortage fears. Decontrol spreads via state and local actions with Texas Nebraska and Alabama moving to lift controls, while reforms shift rents toward market levels.
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Congress
Texas
Nebraska
Lobion
Alabama
Florida
Probe Continues in Thanksgiving Hit-and-Run
Deputy Sheriff Arthur D. Eason said the investigation into a Thanksgiving hit-and-run continued. Clifton Dowd, 33, of the Falconer-Frewsburg area, remained in critical condition at Jamestown General Hospital with fractures and shock after being struck while walking along the highway Thursday night. One man questioned by authorities was released without charges.
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Toy
Arthur D. Eason
Clifton Dowd
Palconer-Frewsburg
Jamestown General Hospital
Falconer
Edson
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