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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1947
Page
2
Ross announced a Saturday plan for a special cabinet gathering to hear an economic statement about prices. He called it a seminar for cabinet information and discussion, not a formal report, and said it would not address the telephone strike or coal mine safety walkout.
Raleigh April 8 The local government commission reported Wilson Bank purchased Wilson electric system 60 day bond anticipation notes and Thomasville improvement bonds. Kirchofer and Arnold arranged the Wilson notes at 1.70 percent while Branch Banking and Trust Co of Wilson underwrote the Thomasville issue at 1.822 percent with an average maturity around 14 years.
It is estimated that more than half a million people in Europe were put to death as witches between the 15th and 18th centuries.
The aging industrialist died after building a family-owned empire that once refused a billion-dollar offer. Ford, famed for the $5 daily wage and Willow Run bomber plant, shaped war and peace era industry while pursuing pacifist goals and sociological interests. Surviving kin include Clara Bryant Ford and Eleanor Ford with children Henry N, Benson, William, and Josephine. Edsel Ford predeceased in 1943.
NFTW President Joseph A. Beirne says a prolonged struggle is foreseen amid a strike called at 6 am by the federation. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach sought a 24 to 48 hour postponement but Beirne rejected it without a concrete offer. Conciliators led by Edgar Warren plan further talks with C. F. Craig as government brokers press for settlement with AT&T and Southwestern Bell.
Gromyko pressed for UN supervision of Greek aid, arguing US action undermined the United Nations. The council debated Greece and Turkey aid while Russia pushed basic atomic control talks. A separate note warned that US personnel to Greece and Turkey could be viewed as interference.
The New York Giants announced that pitchers Marvin Grissom Earl McGowan and Dick Hoover have been released to the Minneapolis farm club of the American Association. Grissom and Hoover came to the Giants from Jersey City. McGowan played for the Atlanta club in the Southern Association last season.
Senator Vandenberg told the senate there are no new doctrines in U S aid to distressed nations. He warned delaying leadership could threaten world peace and said Greece and Turkey facing Communist pressure require support now. He contrasted U S policy with Gromyko’s UN aid proposals and discussed UN involvement and security council considerations.
The Pribilof islands discovery by Russians led to a colony of Aluet Indians who collected seal skins and adopted Russian noble names. Now under U S supervision the colony roster resembles a pre communist Russian blue book.
The New York City League for Less Noise calls Manhattan the city’s biggest noise source outranking other boroughs as the Dodgers visit. Police records show 205 660 formal warnings to noise makers and 45 345 arrests or summonses in 1946, including 8 600 warnings about noisy children and 60 000 to game players, with two thirds of arrests for loud and boisterous conduct.
The ordnance department of the United States Army spent nearly half as much money in 1917 1918 as the entire American government had spent since its founding in 1776. Coffee loses 12 to 20 percent of its weight in roasting but gains about one third in bulk. Americans use about 600 million pounds of waxed paper each year.
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