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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1947
Page
2
Subscription rates and carrier details for a newspaper issue outline prices for daily mail and Sunday delivery. It lists annual and monthly rates, regional locations, and service areas including Georgia Alabama Florida and Virginia. The note cites Associated Press and United Press affiliations and includes a Jefferson quotation.
A short devotional note from December 15 1947 quotes scripture from Titus and a Donne line about eternity. The passage reflects Christian faith in eternal life and victory over death as a message of hope for readers.
The piece argues John L Lewis oversimplifies blame for accelerating coal to fuel oil use. It notes widespread conversion across homes offices factories and public buildings and suggests fear of Lewis cooled demand for coal during earlier years and wartime pressures.
Former Interior Secretary and columnist Harold L. Ickes loses his Washington Star column and payment. He mails free copies to Congress while Star editors defend dropping the column as a smear and abuse of public figures. Ickes and supporters frame it as a fight over freedom of the press.
The Big Four agreed to abandon the Morgenthau Plan aimed at keeping Germany a minor industrial power. Proposed in 1945 by Henry Morgenthau III, the plan sought to limit German steel to 7.5 million tons annually while shifting activity to farming. Allied assessment found Europe needed German steel, prompting a restart of higher output.
Gov Folsom spoke at the Houston County Fair to Boy Scouts on Oct 31 promising a report soon. He said he would return around early December, but the text notes December weeks passing with no update and mentions an interest in a Cadillac.
The account recounts Maj. Charles Sweeney's failed Kokura bombing attempt on August 9 1945 and the decision to strike Nagasaki as secondary when clouds obscured Kokura. It covers the downed fuel, radar drop, and the devastating outcome in Nagasaki with tens of thousands killed and injured. The narrative includes Sweeney’s emergency return to Okinawa and surrounding postwar topics.
A fragment from This Morning reviews a new poetry volume by Seroners with an introduction by Steve Young. It discusses Sidney Lanier and the musicality of verse, then pivots to reflections on medical ethics and the journalism ethic, ending with commentary on Southern rates and commodity terminology.
A compilation of remarks from Clare Boothe Luce Matthew Well Owen Brewster and others on labor, taxes, trade, and democracy. Included are General Marshall and Secretary Harriman views on world markets and American production, plus a Truman and Truman era reflections. Copyright 1947 Bell Syndicate Inc.
Dewitt Mackenzie notes Moscow's decree cutting the ruble value to combat inflation after wartime issues and fake rubles. He contrasts Soviet measures with Western views, citing Lovett's caveat and arguing that a police state can make any economy work temporarily while noting experts doubt communism's lasting viability. Automobiles are owned on 58 percent of U.S. farms.
Hal Boyle compares cocktail parties to civilization’s rival cannibalism noting the social pose and debts hosted by hosts. He lists five familiar party types a reader will recognize and explains why such gatherings feel like a perpetual return to childish make believe amid glamour and flared egos.
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