Economic Trends Affecting Wallet
New York AP report outlines U.S. economic trends with housing staying strong at 2.4 million annual units in 5 months, 816000 of multiple dwellings. Sindlinger & Co. link consumer confidence to politics, forecasting a peak around August, then a decline into year end post election. It notes a clash over workers’ rights in management decisions between unions and management, citing the UAW and Chamber of Commerce.
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New York
Sindlinger & Co
Albert Sindlinger
Sindlinger
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
United Auto Workers
Canada Harvests About Two Million Acres Of Forests Annually
Canadian forestry data show about two million acres of forests are harvested each year. The figure underscores the scale of lumber production and related industry activity across provinces, with implications for sustainable management and environmental policy.
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Canada
Meany seeks neutrality as AFL-CIO vote looms
George Meany presses union leaders to vote against an AFL-CIO endorsement of George McGovern urging a neutral federation stance while member unions may endorse individually. Meany argues a unified AFL-CIO backing would fracture labor's unity amid split 1972 politics. McGovern strategists say a neutral position with free endorsements is best for Democrats.
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Philip Sharecoff
NYT
Washington
George Meany
George McGovern
Federation
Meany
Democratic
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Executive Council
McGovern
AFL - 10
Frank Mankiewicz
AFL - Cio
Committee On Political Education
COPE
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Floyd Smith
Smith
Board of Presidents
Chicago
AFL- C10
Democratic Party
American Federation of State
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Allied Oil and Chemical Workers
Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers
Newspaper Guild
United Auto Workers
District 60
Distributive Workers of America
Afl-Cto
Nixon
National Marine Engineers
Teamsters
Arkansas diamond rush at Crater of Diamonds Park
ARKANSAS DIAMOND RUSH Murfreesboro Arkansas AP describes visitors paying admission to search for diamonds on 80 acre Crater of Diamonds. Since 1906, over 60,000 stones found with about 8 percent gem quality. Largest known stone Uncle Sam found 1924 weighing 40.23 carats and cut to 14.42 carats, later sold for $750,000. now a state park with white birch first to regrow after burns.
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Arkansas
Murfreesboro
Ark
Areia
McGovern's South Dakota Birthday Campaign Stop
George McGovern marks his 50th birthday in South Dakota with two campaign style appearances near Hill City and Mt. Rushmore. He plans a rest day while his aides arrange Sioux Falls visits and a nationwide campaign push from August onward. An auto party with supporters, a gift bracelet purchase, and autographs accompany the political tour as Nixon backers weigh in.
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Custer
S.D
George McGovern
South Dakota
Black Hills
Mt. Rushmore National Monument
McGovern
KELO
Mitchell
Pierre
Washington
Hill City
Nixon
John J. Gerken
Senate
Archie L. Gubbrud
Gerken
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Mt. Rushmore
Benjamin Black Elk
Black Elk
Lincoln
Norval Reece
Pennsylvania
Milton J. Shapp
Reece
Philadelphia
Frank Rizzo
Miami officer turns in brother for robbery and theft
A Miami police officer, Bobby Cheatham, 22, reported his older brother Arthur, 27, after witnesses described the robber who stole $30 and a car. Cheatham, who joined the force less than a year ago, later helped arrange the arrest in Deerfield Beach following a traffic stop. The case began Sunday when Frank Barkalow, 62, said a man at a tavern offered him a ride home and then robbed him.
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Miami
Fla
Bobby Cheatham
Robert Love
Cheatham
Arthur
Frank Barkalow
Deerfield Beach
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