Navy Air Carriers and Unification Sparks Admirals’ Outcry
The piece argues trained naval aviators once bound to battle ships now face demotion after unification shifts air power to the Air Force. It highlights leaders like Sprague and Radford, charts carrier design flaws, and recalls Leyte and Okinawa as pivotal moments that showed carriers’ true value and the need for unified command.
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Gerald Bogan
Arthur Radford
L. T. Sprague
Pacific
Sprague
Pearl Harbor
Air Force
Leyte
U. S
MacArthur
Adm
Tom Kincaid
Kincaid
Nimitz
Hal
West asks Reds for peace amid UN debate on 12 point program
Western allies urged Russia to stop threats and civil strife and to cooperate on a 12 point peace plan including armament control and international cooperation. Soviet leaders dismissed the proposal as unrealistic, with Western analysts questioning Moscow's willingness to agree.
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U.N
Russia
Vishinsky
U. N
United States
Security Council
Moscow
Kremlin
Christian Endeavor Society
Joe Stalin
Politburo
Strike Ends in Victory for CIO Steel Workers on Armistice Day
The costliest strike in U S steel history ended as four smaller firms settled on industry financed pension and insurance terms similar to Bethlehem steel. The agreement provides a minimum $100 monthly pension at 65 after 25 years service and a five cent per hour insurance cost, shared by workers and employers. In Rio Grande tomato fields near La Grulla Texas farmers report rats c intercepted by poisoned grain reducing losses after weeks of swarming across a 15 mile by 1 to 2 mile wide area with 2 000 acres affected.
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America
CIO
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Rio Grande
la Grulla
Tex
Ralph Jones
Italy to be rearmed under Atlantic pact plans?
High level talks between U S and Italian officials discuss modernizing Italy armed forces under the Atlantic pact. James C Dunn U S ambassador to Italy attended initial closed sessions on rearming Italy’s treaty bound military units within the pact framework.
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Italy
U.S
James C. Dunn
U. S
Sweden Rips US Senate and Marshall Plan Aid Critique
A Swedish liberal Expressen blasts the US Senate as a high assembly filled with quaint characters and ignorant politicians. It targets Oklahoma Senator Thomas over Marshall Plan scrutiny, while West Germany eyes keeping western troops and Rokossovsky’s Polish appointment hints at Soviet moves. London’s Official Gazette claims 1665 as its birth, still the oldest government paper publishing.
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United States Senate
Expressen
U.S. Senate
Union
Oklahoma
Thomas
Sweden
Senate Appropriations
U.S
Vienna
Senate
Harry S. Truman
Russia
Germany
Dean Acheson
Konrad Adenauer
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Official
London Gazette
London
Buckingham Palace
Downing Street
How Shot Is Made The Physics Of Lead Pellets
The article explains shot production at Winchester in New Haven. Molten lead is dropped from a tower into water to form spheres, then sorted by rollers and troughs, remelted imperfects, and polished with graphite. Hardness comes from alloy, not water cooling, and water temp remains cold.
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Winchester
New Haven
Pheasant Kills Snake and Explosive Plant Claim Report
A British Berlin newspaper reports a Teerchemie plant near Erkner producing carbazol for atomic bomb explosives with 600 workers. Kansas youth Warren Cody recounts a pheasant fighting a 3 1/2 foot bull snake near Decatur County, noting the pheasant pierced the snake’s head with its spurs. Phantom Products expands its rod line with glas spinning and muskie rods. AAA notes a mole like tunnel analogy for work capacity.
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Berlin
the Telegraf
Teerchemie
Erkner
East
Warren Cody
Kansas
Decatur County
Phantom Products, Inc
Phantom
Camel and Prince Albert Gift Ideas for Christmas
The ad promotes giving Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert tobacco as economical gifts with built in cards for personal messages. It also notes broad topics from U S government expenses to turkey differences and a quick fact about the African black porcupine, reflecting a miscellany page.
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America
Adv
Firebird guided missile boosts U S air force claims
The U S air force says it has a rocket propelled guided missile named Firebird with human intelligence in tracking and destroying enemy aircraft. Launched from a mother jet fighter plane the Firebird can head off and destroy its objective within seconds.
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U. S. Air Force
Guided Missile Department
Free Tour All on a Bet by a 30-Year-Old Vet
A penniless 30-year-old Los Angeles veteran traveled 48 states under the alias Paul Clark on a bet to prove American hospitality. He won 4800 dollars from a friend and kept his identity secret during the journey. The article notes other conditions were not discussed.
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Los Angeles
Paul Clark
Move to honor Ding Darling with duck stamp portrait
The Outdoor Writers Association of America proposes placing eminent cartoonist Ding Darling, former head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, on the 1850 Duck Stamp. Carl Sexauer of the Ogden Reporter originated the idea and urged sportsmen to contact the commissioner.
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Ding” Darling
Us, Fish and Wildlife Service
Outdoor Writers’ Association of America
Carl Sexauer
Ogden
Iowa
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