China crisis in the Yangtse and four southern provinces
AP analyst DeWitt Mackenzie frames the Chinese civil war as unpredictable with Mao’s Communist forces threatening Nanking and Manchuria. Chiang Kai-shek retreats south, while Canton under Hsueh Yueh vows to defend the four southern provinces, and Soviet and Western stakes rise as Washington ponders cautious action.
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China
Hsueh Yueh
T. V. Soong
Hong Kong
Soong
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
Far East
Russia
Orient
Moscow
America
Korea
Chiang Kaishek
Washington
Northern
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Canton
England
London
Middle Age Ills From Prolonging Life Boom
New York NEA report notes medical advances extend life, swelling middle aged and elderly populations. Despite gains in preventing disease, higher longevity correlates with increased fatal conditions like heart disease cancer arthritis diabetes. Insurance medical directors cite 75 million histories and optimism about postwar risks, penicillin and other drugs reducing tropical diseases, yet stomach ailments rise as longevity grows.
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New York
Nea
The
Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors
Pacific
Medical progress keeps heart disease as top killer in 1949
The Dothan Eagle notes that heart disease remains the number one killer in America, with cancer second. It reports improved life expectancy but more degenerative diseases. infectious diseases are controlled through research. Advances include diet, drugs, and rehabilitation, with veterans showing strong rehab outcomes and federal vocational programs saving costs.
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Veterans’ Hospital
Federal
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Crook County Leads as Nation Follows in 1952 Polls
Salem Ore Crook County's voters, comprising homesteaders, cowboys and sheepherders, have backed the winner since 1895. The county favored Truman when Oregon joined Republicans in 1948 and has a long GOP track record dating back to McKinley.
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Crook County
Salem
Ore
Gre
Oregon
Truman
McKinler
Push Button Economy Reaches Dairy Barn
In Stillwater Oklahoma a new dairy barn at Milkers plant uses levers and a milking pit to milk cows in three minutes. Milk is weighed on a glass wall tank then sent via pipe to the casting room. The barn holds 1,000 tons of hay 4 000 bushels of grain four silos 600 tons and quarters for eight attendants plus the dairy herd.
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Stillwater
Okla
API
Oklahoma
Jeannette class uses live boa constrictor exhibit
In Jeannette High School Pa James McLean biology class studied a live boa constrictor used as exhibit. The snake about 2 1 2 feet long was found in a railroad banana shipment.
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Stude
Jeannette. Pa
Iupi
James McLean
Jeannette High School
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