United Nations Security Pact Moves Toward Senate Ratification
The UN security pact heads to ratification as Congress weighs the charter amid hopes for effective collective security, with Senators Cannaily and Vandenberg shaping American input and debates over use of armed force requiring possible new legislation. The report covers Japan, Okinawa, Mindanao, and supply actions, plus pork and tire rations affecting wartime economy and postwar planning.
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United Nations Party Security Armciaation
U8 Senate
League of Nations
Senate
Cannaily
Dem
Texas
Vandenberg
Rep
Mich
San Francisco
Congress
Postwar Germany carbon industry aims and controls
United States and Britain plan to destroy Germanys postwar economic base to prevent military revival. Assistant Secretary William L. Clayton outlines acquirement of wartime technological developments and use in peacetime production. The goal includes blocking German industrialists from rebuilding exports and capital abroad.
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U. S. State Department
William L. Clayton
U. S
Germany
Reich
Clayton
Presidential Succession Reform Sought by President Truman
President Truman asks Congress to rewrite the presidential line of succession by making the Speaker of the House next after the Vice President, addressing a 156 year old governance detail. The proposal traces historic shifts from 1782 to 1932 in who follows a missing president.
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Truman
Congress
House
U.S
Senate
Lend-Lease to Russia Tapping Aid to Siberia for Pacific War Effort
Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley told a House committee that more than 3 billion dollars in lend-lease aid reached the Soviet Union in 1944. The program will continue as long as essential to the Allied cause with shipments to Siberia to pin down Japanese forces. The 1946 budget calls for 4.375 billion dollars even as Europe’s war ends. Some nations may buy material to finish plants started under lend-lease.
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Russia
Germany
House Appropriations Committee
Leo Crowley
Russian
Siberia
Pacific
Vet Death Claims Jump With Elaine Ineteriatieg 250 Per Cent
The Veterans Administration reports a sharp rise in veteran death claims with 250 percent increase across recent eight months. Over 2 billion dollars has been paid nationwide to HOH approved claims from Detahes to Helatherth, reaching 307268 in a six month period. By June 22300, hundreds of thousands of dollars more were accepted, with an average policy around 8,900 dollars.
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Veterans Administration
HOH
Elaine
Detahes
TMH
Helaherth
Sugar Dicker With Cuba
Cuba rejects the U S offer for virtually all of the 1946 sugar crop at 3.45 cents a pound and counters with demands for 444 cents plus guarantees. The plan calls for the U S to buy 85 percent of Cuban sugar through 1950 at Puerto Rico level and import at least 3 million tons annually, plus fertilizer mill equipment and parts. It also seeks assurance prices for rice lard jam bacon pork corn meal wheat flour shoes lumber and machinery will not rise to disturb trade balance.
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U. S
U.S
Salaries of 1943 44 top US earners include GM leaders
The 1943 44 treasury list shows General Motors chief Charles E. Wilson earning 459,041, with IBM’s Thomas J. Watson at 425,549 and actor Fred MacMurray at 419,167. GM executives Hunt Bradley Smith Brown Kettering also exceed 300,000. Barbara Stanwyck earns 323,333 while Bing Crosby gets 294,444 not counting radio fees. The Farm Security Administration allocates 25 million for veteran farm purchases under 1937 act, with up to 40 year loans at 3 percent and 2,000+ veteran purchase applications plus 2,800 rehabilitation loans. Australian road network aims to speed peacetime growth, linking regions and opening vast land.
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Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Treasury
Thomas J. Watson
International Business Machines Corporation
Fred MacMurray
Ormond E. Hunt
Albert Bradley
John Thomas Smith
Donaldson Brown
Charles F. Kettering
Barbara Stanwyck
Bing Crosby
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Specter of Starvation Stalks Liberated Europe
An analysis of the postwar food emergency outlines a looming global hunger crisis. Liberated Europe faces a 2.5 million ton meat shortfall, 1 million tons of cereals, and 1.5 million tons of sugar, with production, transport, and labor shortages compounding the problem. UNRRA and Western nations struggle to deliver supplies as railways crumble, roads flood, and wartime damage hinders recovery, urging shared sacrifice at home to avert famine.
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Annalyst
WNU
Union Trust
Washington, D.C
Atlantic
New York Times
London
Linwellin
Canada
United States
France
Christian Pinaud
Cole Blowellin
Lurong
Australia
Hiss
Europe
Far East
Antc
Cuunman
Samuel Rosenman
Barbs and Broadcasts from Tokyo Amid War News
Domei reports transmitter trouble and possible B 29 interference. Foreign trade aids will help locate imported French lace paid for before France’s occupation. Frills fund necessities as closures tighten. WPB doubts big bicycle production rise in Q3 1945. citizens urged to pedal longer.
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France
Foreign Economic Administration
WPB
New Uses for an Old Fashioned Knife Box
Old fashioned knife boxes are shown as versatile items for serving, plant displays, sewing, knitting, or reading material. The article offers a home craft plan to make a knife box with a simple stand, including patterns and materials list.
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Wwern
Askebiy
Coopeyte Lst
Bath
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New York
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Enet.se
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Eo Warner
Mgrawbeer
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