Senate Fights Over Oleo Tax Repeal Bill
Washington in session opening fight over a house passed bill to erase federal taxes on oleo margarine. Sen Fulbright warns of attempts to tie civil rights riders and other tax cuts to the measure. Leader Lucas vows a showdown vote as Wiley proposes broader excise tax revamps.
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Washington
Senate
Fulbright
D.-Ark
Lucas
Ofllinois
House
Congress
Wiley
R.-Wis
Gillette
Iowa
George
D.-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Railroads Seek 95 Percent Mail Pay Increase
The nation’s major railroads filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission to nearly double mail rates since January 1947. They say rising operating costs require a permanent adjustment and estimate the request would exceed current pay by over 100 million dollars. The original 45 percent uplift was first filed in February 1947 and later amended.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Government Debt Bounds Still Higher
The Treasury reports that the federal debt ceiling rose above 257 billion dollars by year end 1949. The mid year fiscal position shows a deficit near 3.3 billion, with 615 million in last day excess spending and big outlays from the Veterans Administration Air Force Agriculture Navy and debt interest.
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Washington,p
Treasury
Veterans Administration
Air Force
Agriculture Department
Navy
Truman
Uranium export figure Boris Pregel under scrutiny
Washington reports Boris J. Pregel head of Canadian Radium and Uranium Co. is linked to wartime uranium shipments to Russia. HUAC testimony ties his firm to 1943 transfers from Port Hope to Great Falls and onward. Immigr. Service debates his naturalization and possible deportation.
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Washington
Port Hope
Ontario
Canada
Great Falls
Mont
Russia
Dean Acheson
U. S
Lend-Lease Administration
Manhattan
Leslie R. Groves
George Racey Jordan
House Un-American Activities Committee
Pregel
U. S. District Court
New York
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Boris Pregel
Smyth
Atomic Energy
Miami
Fla
Daily News
Boris
Belgium
Fow
Eldrado Mining and Refining Co
Great Bear Lake
Brussels
Canadian Radium and Uranium Co
Alexander Pregel
Petrograd
W. Avxentieff
Kerensky
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Immigration, Service
Whitaker Gift Builds Johnson Boswell Library Collection
The University of North Carolina Library displays the Whitaker Collection on Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and their circle. Notable items include first editions of Johnsons Dictionary and Richard Savage Life, Boswell biography editions, Rambler issues, and a complete Johnson English Poets set. The gift strengthens ongoing scholarly access to eighteenth century English literature and Boswell papers now at Yale.
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Chapel Hill
Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
University of North Carolina
William A. Whitaker
New York
Johnson
David Garrick
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Whitaker
Dr. Johnson
Richard Savage
Earl Rivers
Islands
Irene
Abissinia Rasselas
Morocco
Boswell
Col
Ralph Heyward Isham
Colonel Isham
Malahide Castle
Yale University
Mr. Whitaker
Scrap iron and steel consumption in 1949 falls 27 percent
U.S. purchases of iron and steel scrap totaled 21 250 000 gross tons in 1949, a drop of 27 percent from 1948. The figure is part of annual industrial material use data showing year to year declines in postwar demand.
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U.S
Doan’s Pills Offer Relief for Backache and Kidney Strain
Warning of backache and fatigue from aging and strain suggests Doan’s Pills as a mild diuretic relief. Claims of 59 years of use and widespread success imply Doan’s aids kidney function by flushing waste from the kidneys.
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Dean
Doan
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US Council of National Defense
Columbia University
United States
Columbia
Finstein
Urey
Fermi
Presiden Roosevelt
Alexander Sachs
White House
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Legion of Honor
French Association of Engineers
Doctors of Science
Herbert Hoover
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Odessa
Romania
Turanium
France
Ministry of Armaments
Eldorado Mining and Refining Co
Ireland
Fettercairn House
Scotland
Donald Dick
Cage
Coble Stee Ee
Coble Dairy Products, Inc
Orle
Russell ST
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