Malik peace proposal stirs national hopes and caution
The piece analyzes Malik’s Korea cease fire offer amid U.S. casualties, inflation fears, and Sino-Soviet dynamics. It weighs sincerity versus propaganda, notes the State Department’s cautious stance, and highlights ongoing battles, economic strain, and the first year’s toll in Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
Korea
America
U.S
Malik
Formosa
China
United Nations
Main Street
U.N
U.S. State Department
Government taxes soar as Congress passes record 7.2 billion levy
The House approved a record breaking 7.2 billion tax increase by 233 to 160, boosting individual income taxes 12 percent. The plan shifts funds to individuals, corporate taxes, excise taxes, and revenue law changes. Senate hearings follow with possible minor tweaks. Paris talks collapse after 16 weeks as big four ministers may still meet in Washington on July 23.
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House
Senate
Finance Committee
Paris
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Washington
Goa
Startling Experiment Sprays Veggies to One-Year Freshness
The Country Gentleman reports a spray with a hydrazide that slows growth in potatoes onions carrots beets parsnips and turnips. Vegetables stored after spraying stay firm and flavorful for about a year with no yield loss and researchers say results seem almost unbelievable.
Largemouth Bass Diet and Canadian Waterfowl Outlook
Bass feed on insects small fish crayfish and frogs with young bass relying on water fleas. Southern largemouths grow faster but live shorter than northern fish with 15 years maximum observed. Ducks Unlimited Canada reports ideal duck breeding conditions across Western Ontario prairies Rockies and up to Peace River in 1951.
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Florida
Canada
Mother Nature
Duchological
Bert W. Cartwright
Ducks Unlimited
Ontario
Prairies
Rocky Mountains
International Boundary
Peace River District
Alberta
Persecution of Beneficial Hawks Through Centuries
Based on Cincinnati Conservation Society files the article recounts long history of hawk and owl study and explains why English game keepers and colonists mislabelled all raptors as pests. It notes folk beliefs that hawks are chicken hawks and describes harm from shotgun shooting and public display along fences.
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Cincinnati Conservation Society
England
Pittsfield Youth Rivals Atlantic Salmon On Narraguagus
Richard Cameron of Pittsfield Mass is a candidate for the Alger story fishing hero of the year in Maine. On his first Atlantic salmon trip on the Narraguagus at Cherryfield he used an 11 trout outfit to land two big fish, an 11 pounder and a 16 pound 11 ounce lunker, inspiring Game Warden Wally Barron to hail him as one of the best fishermen seen in the area.
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Richard Cameron
Pittsfield
Mass
Algerstory
Maine
Cameron
Narraguagus
Cherryfield
Academy Pool
Little Falls Pool
Lunker
Wally -Barron
Melanism and Albinoism in Wildlife T
The article explains melanism as excess black pigment in animals leading to black deer, squirrel, rat, and a melanistic pheasant. It contrasts albinoism as lack of pigment resulting in white deer, squirrel, and the white pheasant.
Main Street dealers eye credit policy and wage controls
The piece notes little chance the Federal Reserve Board will ease credit on durable goods, citing inflation fears. It reports a September 1 start for a controlled materials plan and Walsh Healey act changes aiding small manufacturers. Electrical appliance sales decline and wholesale/retail figures are given, with a survey showing farmers and feeders oppose price controls on live cattle unless broad wage controls occur, warning about corn usage and market shifts.
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Main Street
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
FRB
National Production Authority
Department of Labor
Walsh-Healey
Secretary of Labor
Maurice Tobin
U. S. Department of Commerce
Mid-West
Middle West
Department of Agriculture
Enlistment reservists to be released in late 1946 plan
A columnist notes a July start and December completion for releasing about 100,000 enlisted reservists who served involuntarily. Those freed will return to the enlisted reserve until their original enlistment terms end, in stages by veterans of WWII with 90 days plus service first, then other prior service, then those with no prior service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beane
Basic Training Lengthened to Sixteen Weeks in Army Program
The army has extended basic training from fourteen to sixteen weeks. The two extra weeks boost hours for combat skills weapon use and conditioning. Over 2700 certificates issued to military medical personnel and civilian scientists after completing a course on medical problems of special weapons and radioactive isotopes at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in cooperation with the AEC and NSRB. Ninety five percent of graduates returned to inactive duty in their home communities.
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Korea
U.N
U.S
Asia
Europe
West
Army
Cal
Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Maryland
Atomic Energy Commission
National Security Resources Board
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Ind
A. J
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Ohio
L.G.R
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van Buren, Ark
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Helbling Bros
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Security Jewelry CO
N. 27Th St
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Prairie City
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Aberdeen
South Dakota
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Kootenay Lake
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Fred Wilmot
Gray Creek, B. C
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California
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Texaco
C. B. Parker
Sandpoint
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M. W. Bucy
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Mapleton
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Jordan Hotel
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22Nd St
Tennessee Walking Horse
Roland Wakae
Cody
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Swan Lake
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Millers Grocery
Fallon
the Inn
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International No. 51
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Ronald R. Ferguson
E. Chestnut, Apt. 1
Walla Walla
Carl Tackle Red Boot Shoe Shop
Boreman
Chinchillas
Air Express
USA
Stockton
J. M. Carr
Country Club Bilyd
Ogden
John Deere
Wilwn & CO
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Western Ranch Service, Inc
First Ave
Kalispell
Conrad Agency
Conrad Block
Kalispell, Mont
Prineville
Jim Small
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