Giants Eyes National League Pennant in New Season
Grantland Rice surveys the 1950 baseball landscape predicting the Giants will win the National League pennant if they steady pitching and Dodger Phillies and Braves falter. He praises Leo Durocher for on field management and conditioning while noting baseball's need to modernize fan comforts and faces growing TV competition.
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Giants
St. Petersburg
Yankees
Arizona
California
Florida
Leo Durocher
Dame Fortune
Leo
Jim Hearn
Cardinals
Sal Maglie
Dodgers
Phillies
Curt Simmons
Simmons
Boston
Hearn
Maglie
Jansen
Kennedy
Durocher
Braves
Knowledge of Biological Warfare Is Vital Link in Civil Defense
Washington report outlines how biological warfare could target humans and animals via air water and food. It warns enemies may spread diseases through ventilation systems water sources and contaminated supplies. It notes impact on meat dairy wool leather and critical pharmaceuticals could disrupt civilian and military supply chains.
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Washington, D.C
Russia
Department of Agriculture
Civil Defense Administration
Germany
U.S. Public Health Service
Theatre Guild on the Air plans Hamlet NBC broadcast from Belasco
The Theatre Guild on the Air will air a full hour and a half adaptation of Hamlet from the Belasco Theatre in New York over NBC. Dorothy McGuire Pamela Brown and John Gielgud star with a 1940s modernization for GI audiences. The cast includes Irene Vernon and judges will award 15 savings bonds in a baby beauty contest run March to June.
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Theatre Guild
Belasco Theatre
New York
NBC
Dorothy McGuire
Pamela Brown
John Girlgud
Irene Vernon
Robert Stillman
United Artists
Bewildered Boy With Luger Robs Otto's Diner
A teenage bandit in a worn cap robs Otto’s diner of thirty dollars using a Luger pistol. Otto stalls, feeds the thief, and calmly disarms him, telling the youth he’ll keep the money as wages while ensuring the robber is not handed to police. The narrator, Joe, contemplates leaving but stays as Otto handles the situation and jokes about hiring help.
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Otto
Joe
Crossword Puzzle Name 20 Ol Eng Apex Bulrush Edible
Crossword puzzle clues list across and down with numbered entries and multilingual hints including Ol Eng and Jap terms. Answers range from everyday items to mythic figures and nautical terms, requiring cross referencing in a single grid.
President asks Congress for 71 Billion Tax to fund rearmament
The President seeks a 71 billion tax for the next fiscal year starting July 1 1951 to cover rearmament and government costs. He estimates national income at 240 billion dollars and taxas at 25.9 cents per earned dollar, with 58 cents going to rearmament. If earnings exceed estimates, higher taxes could follow in 1952.
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Congress
Veterans Administration
Occupational brucellosis risk among vets and meat workers
A joint study by the U S public health service and Indiana health board finds brucellosis an occupational hazard for veterinarians packinghouse workers and farm handlers. Blood tests over three years on 600 veterinarians show up to 25 percent exposed. up to 33 percent in high contact jobs. farming workers show under four percent men and under two percent women. rendering plant workers around 27 percent positive on the blood test.
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Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
U.S Public Health Service
Indiana State Board of Health
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Mahoney
N ‘Brie
Philadelphia Eagles
Iball Hoeft
Oshkosh
Wis
Detroit
Hartford High
Sportlight
Grantland Rice
Horace Stoneham
Bill Terry
Harold Arnett
Civil Defense
By Walter A. Shead
Newcastle
Inez Gerhard
Bacon
Prophet
Bashan
By Wright A. Patterson
Assnael
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