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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1948
Page
11
The 1947 data show 31 127 box cars with 27 194 plain and ventilated and 3 933 automobile box cars. Hopper cars include 1 509 covered, 3 269 gondolas, 995 flat. 6 931 refrigerator. 500 stock. and 351 miscellaneous freight cars.
In China, hundred dollar yuan notes are traded as wastepaper at about 2000 dollars per pound. With a black market rate of 300000 yuan per US dollar, over 3000 hundred dollar bills equal one US cent, making the value per pound about two thirds of a cent. Transactions use high denomination bills to avoid counting small ones.
The cero or kingfish appears in large schools from Florida to South Carolina and extends its range north to Cape Cod Massachusetts. It travels in diverse shoals and prompts local fishing interest across coastal communities.
To remove lime deposits from a teakettle, mix half a cup of vinegar with a pint of water and boil the solution for several minutes. Rinse well after the boil to restore kettle clarity.
The Canadian river is a branch of the Arkansas river, rising in New Mexico and flowing eastward through Texas and Oklahoma.
The four week Arab Israeli truce collapses with renewed fighting. Bernadotte’s mediation failed as Arabs and Jews rejected a revised partition plan, and Trans-Jordan resisted UN jurisdiction, returning Palestine to war.
President Truman signed a farm bill extending price supports at current levels for 15 months and establishing a flexible program starting January 1, 1950. He criticized Congress for not funding soil conservation, marketing research, or rural housing, health and education initiatives. Cotton support falls to 90 percent of parity while five other crops stay at 90 percent. Berlin Crisis: US aid continues as Soviet Berlin blockade tightens, with power cuts ordered and a Soviet plan for a German constitution signaling deeper East West splits.
The article outlines potential duties for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey including replacing Washington officials, coordinating a unified policy program across departments, streamlining government to remove duplications, and forming a geographically representative cabinet. It notes rising consumer prices and a decline in purchasing power in May 1948 compared with April and June 1947.
A Foundation for the Study of Cycles warns of a 250 year era of dictatorship followed by a static frozen civilization. The forecast says the end comes when younger peoples rise to topple emasculated Western powers, with no specific identities named.
Washington columnist Backhage argues the draft will act as a nudge to steer enlistments toward regular service, reducing the number drafted to 200,000–250,000. He notes exemptions for veterans and students, cites anti military propaganda, and praises army morale boosts while warning against misleading antiwar sentiment.
The Economic Cooperation Administration closed its Marshall Plan books for the first quarter reporting recovery shipments approved for Europe and China totaling $762,747,140. The figure reaches about 58 percent of the quarterly goal, but ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman said the unspent balance would be used later.
Judge T Alan Goldsborough issued a permanent injunction halting a national rail strike after seizing the railroads. He warned society would disintegrate without the order, as unions argued the move unnecessary. A settlement emerged through Steelman mediated talks, with unions accepting a 15 percent wage increase and rule changes. President Truman praised the accord.
In New Orleans at Baptist hospital Mrs Mor ris Champagne gave birth to a son while 24 hours later Mrs Joseph Liquor had a daughter and 18 minutes afterward Mrs S R Staggers delivered a daughter. In Butte Deputy Sheriff Robert Russel was treated for burns after demonstrating firecracker safety to children. In Kansas City Clyde E Paine devised an electric fan that hums like a freight train to aid his sleep after a day to night shift switch. In Milwaukee James Beard was arrested after placing nickels in a payphone and wandering the street in a rage with the receiver wrapped around his neck.
Cro Magnon people ten thousand years ago left cave wall drawings of animals. Principal subjects include bison mammoths horses and reindeer.
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