British Loan Sparks Debate on Aid to Great Britain
The piece critiques a proposed 3.375 billion dollar loan to Great Britain, urging a smaller gift and favoring Bretton Woods bank handling. It notes support from some experts despite Taft’s warning of long-term friction and anti British sentiment if payments stall, while acknowledging potential exceptions to the rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Taft
Great Britain
Bretton Woods
Britain
Mr. Taft
Shylock
Rubinoff Charms High Point Pupils With Free School Concerts
Rubinoff and his violin have delighted High Point radio audiences for years. Yesterday he visited schools, performed for and spoke to children without compensation, earning praise for public relations and a generous, admired gesture from the famed artist.
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Rubinoff
High Point
State faults in jail fire safety draw strong scrutiny
The North Carolina welfare department blasts cities and counties for jail fire risks, citing suffocation deaths and fire traps. It urges stricter inmate safeguards and broader state authority to fix conditions, noting Samarcand’s buildings as fire hazards under state oversight.
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State of
North Carolina
Department of Welfare
Charles H. Mill
Otland Neck
Miller
Samarcand
NEW ATTITUDE OF STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TOWARD INTERSTATE PLAN
The state highway and public works commission shifted its stance on the proposed inter regional super high way system. Last year it met behind closed doors and imposed the map without public notice. This year it faced public input and appeared more open though still cautious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Bainee
Raleigh
Local Reactions on Office of Price Administration and Baseball Comment
A. L. Cook questions the wisdom of removing the Office of Price Administration, admitting troubles with its absence. Ed Mitchell praises racial integration in baseball, recalling a Greensboro game featuring the Goshen Red Wings and the Red Sox to illustrate the era’s sports enthusiasm.
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Office of Price Administration
A. L. Cook
Ed Mitchell
Goshen Red Wings
Red Sox
Greensboro
Forty years in printing and a housing note in High Point
Olin Love marks his 40th anniversary in printing while Ralph Miller warns of housing shortages delaying a skilled veteran’s move to High Point. Albert Taylor cites a March fire rise, and Lois Welborn comments on Easter hats. A federal road plan review and AP Vienna brief follow with a note on U S Soviet tensions.
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Olin Love
Ad-Man
Ralph Miller
High Point
Albert Taylor
Enterprise
Lois Welborn
C. T. Ingram
Associated Press
Vienna
United States
Mark W. Clark
Russia
America
Patterson's flawed testimony on selective service sparks bills
The article brands Secretary Patterson's Capitol Hill presentation as scrambled and misleading, triggering House moves to curb selective service. It asserts deficits in voluntary enlistments, drafts age changes, and reliance on Marshall to salvage the bill.
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Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Capitol
Army
McS
Navy
Selective Service
House
Senate Military Affairs Committee
China
George Marshall
GOP
Truman
General Marshal Or
Eisenhower
Postwar report links radium to lung cancer in miners
American investigators reveal German findings that breathing radium emanation and other radioactive materials caused lung cancer among miners in the Reich. The THB reports Dr Boris Rajewsky aided the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in exposing Nazi research. Smyth Report notes radiations from such materials have deadly X ray like effects.
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Washington
Technical Industrial Intelligence Branch
THB
Joint Intelligence Objective Agency
Army and Navy Chiefs of Staff
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Germany
TIB
Boris Rajewsky
War Department
Smyth Report Details Gamma Rays from Uranium Reactions
The Smyth report notes gamma rays similar to X rays and also beta and alpha emissions from a small uranium chain reacting system. It states that such reactions may produce radioactive material equivalent to hundreds or thousands of grams of radium. The health division used instruments like “sneezy” to measure radioactive dust concentration.
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Smyth
Health Division
Washington OPA extension debate shapes price control fate
Overlooked facts show the House bill would extend OPA powers to March 31, 1942, about eleven months from now, drawing sharp attack from opponents. Amendments target cost plus profits and removal of controls on certain 1940 41 production levels, with subsidies under scrutiny and a Senate revision anticipated.
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Washington
OPA
Messrs
Bowles
Porter
Truman
House
Senate
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