Strike Ties Up West Coast Oil, Gas Shortage Feared
San Francisco report says 15 000 California CIO oil workers walked out seeking 12 1/2 cents raise, threatening gasoline cuts across Washington to Hawaii and Alaska. Major firms set aside 250 percent of supplies for emergencies as a Labor Day panic rush forms.
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Rent Black Market Reported Very Bad By Director Woods
Director Woods warned last night that the rent black market is very bad and spreading nationwide. He planned a San Francisco meeting with rent chiefs to curb violations, citing 10 to 12 percent of units paying above the ceiling and Bureau of Labor Statistics backing. Compliance officials noted weak eviction controls and light penalties as barriers to enforcement.
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Oil unions hold committees in readiness for talks
The day saw no renewed negotiations on reopening talks as unions and major oil companies kept committees "in readiness" for joint discussions. Affected firms include Standard, Shell, Union, Tidewater Associated, Richfield, Texas, Ohio, Lloyd's Ltd., and Rothschild. Dependent workers are not involved. Only a trickle of tank cars or trucks moved fuel west of the Rockies from Eastern and Texas centers.
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Thurmond Appeals for Non-Political Foreign Policy
Gov. J. Strom Thurmond urged a firm non political foreign policy coupled with a strong armed force during a Fourth Army reunion in Augusta Georgia He warned that wars arise from greedy politicians and urged readiness with the option of talks with Soviet officials if Berlin blockade is lifted He noted conditional peace talks with Germany and warned war may be inevitable if conferences fail Thurmond traveled with Mrs Thurmond and Sen James C Dozier adjutant general of South Carolina
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82Nd Airborne Division
James C. Dozier
First US horse drawn bus runs on Broadway 1831
The first bus in the United States operated as a horse drawn vehicle on Broadway between Bond Street and Battery Park in New York City in 1831. Fare was 12 cents.
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New York City
Utility uses decoy poles to deter woodpeckers
A Mississippi utility installed old ready pecked pole sections on new poles to deter woodpeckers from pecking. The birds favored the older sections, reducing damage to lines.
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Mississippi
Livestock market reports from Chicago and grains slip
Salable hogs 2,900 head total with 75 to 1.25 lower prices and top at 2.0, 190 to 270 lb hogs closing at 28.75 to 29.25. Cattle salable 500 head with steers and heifers mostly steady to 1.00 higher, top 41.50 for a load of prime 1,100 lb steers. calves and Canadian steers also shown. Sheep 500 head with lambs down 1.00-2.00, yearlings 1.00 or more lower. natives top around 25.00, Texas yearlings 19.75. Grain: oats fall to new seasonal lows, wheat weak, corn mixed with September at 2.20 3-4, soybeans up 1-2. A scorpion note follows.
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Denmark
All Americas Pro Football Conference Schedule Record Set
The 1948 nine game exhibition schedule in the All-America Pro Football Conference marks the most ambitious plan by the three-year-old loop. Eastland Lynch paid a record $75,000 for Naw Broom, a yearling race horse, which never won a race.
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