Administration to decide on crop controls this week
The Eisenhower administration faces key decisions on crop controls as the Agriculture Department releases landmark estimates for cotton and corn. If cotton exceeds 12 million bales or corn tops 3.4 billion bushels, mandatory controls loom for next year. A Friday wheat referendum will test farmer support for quotas, with price and income implications depending on the outcome.
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Ovid A. Martin
Eisenhower
Agriculture Department
Benson
GOP
Puerto Rico
Truman
NBC
Department
Doubtful Reds Have Bomb
An analysis outlines early Cold War dynamics on atomic weapons. It notes Molotov’s negative framing hid Soviet gaps, the two-year gap before a Soviet test, and Truman’s 1950 decision to proceed with all forms of atomic arms including the hydrogen bomb amid Pacific test reports and thermonuclear research.
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Molotov
Malenkov
Soviet Union
Truman
Cmmission
Pacific
Birthday Fitness Routine Of Rhode Island Man
On his 78th birthday George A. Brown a retired toolmaker from Providence walked four and a half miles played four volleyball games and swam 14 lengths including one underwater stroke He follows this daily routine as a health program.
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Providence
R. I
George A. Brown
Malenkov claims Soviet hydrogen bomb breakthrough
Premier Georgi Malenkov told 1,300 Supreme Soviet members that the Soviet Union has mastered hydrogen bomb production, saying the United States no longer holds a monopoly. He attacked NATO and atomic blackmail while urging peaceful talks and insisting Beria’s exposure showed state strength. U.S. plans for disarmament and peace were noted in comparison to Soviet policy.
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Moscow
Georgi Malenkov
United States
Soviet Union
Lavrenty P. Beria
Supreme Soviet
Malenkov
U. S. Atomic Energy Committee
Lewis L. Strauss
Pacific
Seilors
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
North Atlantic
Russia
Soviet Socialist Republics
Legislar
Beria
Eisenhower
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Washington
Korea
Returning POWs Relate Cruelty and Reprisals During War
Prisoners freed in the exchange recount mistreatment and forced marches, beatings, and indoctrination. One inmate says a stool pigeon was killed. two Americans fear retaliation. Reports include narcotics use among prisoners and a dockside anti Allied demonstration by repatriated Chinese women.
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Tommie Hampton
Chicago
Louie M. Leach
Columbus
Leach
Corp 5
Pyoktong
Pfe
Robert I. Brooks
U. S
William F. Dean
Aust
Ejen
Pusan
Exchange
VU. N
May Take Fight To Capitol In Haymes Deportation Case
Actor Dick Haymes considers a trip to Washington to appeal his deportation before Senator Pat McCarran and federal officials. His attorney says a decision will be made today. Haymes faces deportation for leaving the United States to visit Rita Hayworth, under the McCarran Act. He is free on $500 bond pending a hearing in two weeks.
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Los Angeles
Dick Haymes
Washington
Pat McCarran
D-Nev
Robert A. Eaton
Haymes
Congress
Eaton
United States
Rita Hayworth
Hawaii
McCarran
Herman Landon
Population Near 160 Million by Monday Ceremony
The U S population is expected to reach 160 million about 10 a.m. Monday EST, a near nine million rise since the last official census. The April 1 1950 figure was 151,132,000, with a ceremonial approximation to be held in the Commerce Department lobby.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
U. S
Commerce Department
Census
Robert W. Burgess
East German Harvest Crisis Sparks Crackdown and Quotas Failure
In Berlin on August 8 1953 reports say harvest failures and lagging industrial output push East Germany to intensify a secret police hunt for fascist undergrounds. Meantime grain remains in fields risking spoilage as rains slow reaping and the planning commission notes failed quotas across fats fish eggs sugar meat and milk.
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Berlin
Mecklenburg
ADN
Ministry of Agriculture
East German Planning Commission
Red Commission
Ernst Woolweber
East Germany
Red Gestapo
Woolweber
U S Demands All POWs Be Released By Reds
The United States declared it expects Red China and North Korea to release all prisoners of war. Gen Mark Clark warned the Reds hold 2000 to 3000 more Americans than agreed and thousands more South Koreans. The State Department said action will follow any proven armistice violations while ensuring prisoner safety.
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Washington
United States
Red China
North Korea
Mark Clark
Far East
Korea
State Department
Walter Bedell Smith
Soviet
Russia
Ood
Unon
United Nations
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