Modest request shapes 1949 shipbuilding budget
The piece notes a modest request of 24 million for ship construction and 15.3 million for contract authorization within the 1949 budget. It argues for a limited start on postwar merchant marine capacity, critiques European aid and subsidy plans, and discusses private shipyard competition versus domestic subsidies and policy effects. It also covers testimony and proceedings around the Thomas committee and the behavior of defendants including Mr. Lardner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maritime Commission
Truman
State Department
Department
Keller Committee
U. S
Mr. Truman
Commission
United States
Congress
Ring Lardner Jr among ten writers cited for contempt
Ring Lardner Jr the son of the humorist is among ten Hollywood screen writers indicted for contempt of Congress for refusing to tell the Thomas committee whether they were Communists. Public opinion grew heated as the case drew attention to loyalty questions in the industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Lardner
Thomas Committee
Mr. Lardner
Ring Lardner Jr
New York
Congress
Peace in Indies Presses for United Indonesia State
The Dutch and Indonesian Republics show signs of backing a federation or United States of Indonesia as ten autonomous territories representing over 70 percent of the population push the plan. Amid less hopeful global events this appears a rare constructive development with potential to settle regional conflict. Labor leader John L. Lewis voices anti government meddling in coal affairs while Dr. Victor E. Levine critiques excess eating alongside a light note on food conservation. Rep Chas Eaton of New Jersey comments on Russia’s hypothetical Europe-wide dominance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Netherlands Indies
Indonesia
Far East
Russia
Europe
Rep
Chas. A. Eaton
New Jersey
Capitol Square Outlook Hints at Turner Run for Congress
Capitol Square notes Turner as a Greensboro attorney nearing a congressional bid in the sixth district while Kerr Scott draws attention toward a possible gubernatorial candidacy. The piece surveys pressure dynamics, party leadership, and rivalries shaping 1948 campaigns across agriculture and tobacco policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner
Greensboro
Kerr Scott
Capitol Square
Alamance County
Scott
Charles M. Johnson
Johnson
J. M. Broughton
William B. Umstead
Lee and Jackson Birthdays Mark Lee-Jackson Day Observance
Virginia born generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson share January birth dates. Lee born January 19 1807, Jackson January 21 1824. Lee-Jackson Day will be observed in southern areas with biographies cited from the United Daughters of the Confederacy magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee-Jackson
Robert Edward Lee
Thomas Jonathan
Stonewall) Jackson
Virginia
Lee
Jackson
Chancellorsville
South
Seathall Freeman
Future
United Daughters of the Confederacy
James G. Leyburn
Yale University
Board of Trustees
Washington and Lee University
General Lee
These Days By George Sokolsky on War Costs and Postwar Role
The author argues that government spending dwarfs individual budgets and warns that postwar costs linger. He notes World War II totals, lend-lease over 40 billion dollars, and aid to Britain China and liberated nations. He contends the Marshall plan extends wartime dependences and leadership assumed by the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Asia
China
Russia
Germany
Poland
United States
Pearl Harbor
Broadway Lights To Town Gossip In High Society
A collage of society notes from New York, detailing Senator Glenn Taylor and linked elites, showbiz wrap: Harold Young and Elizabeth Firestone, editor wrangles, Eleanor Powell’s return to tap, and Night Club Melodrama scenes. Also recalls public figures in music, theater, and fashion gossip plus a sensational backstage tale at a New York club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Taylor
Idaho
Henry Wallace
Harold Young
Showness
Lee Morse
Elizabeth Firestone
Charles
Ritz
Society
Eleanor Powell
Mr. Groom
Mexico
Aleman
Texas Border Town
U. S
Argentina
Western Union
All or nothing in postwar aid debate
The excerpt argues that America must bear war costs and oppose immediate disbursement of ERP funds. It notes a $17 billion four-year figure proposed to be voted at once and a $6.8 billion request for 15 pontes, with Congress resisting both. Secretary Marshall’s stance is criticized as echoing European logic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broughton
Farm Bureau
Stabilization Corporation
Tobacco Associates
Tobacco Committee
Senate
Umstead
Farm Bureau Committee
Raleigh
Reag
Goldsboro Hospital
Turculosis Hospital Board
State Medical Care Commission
U. S. Public Health Service
Lee
Washington College
Lexington School
America
Washington
Virginia Society of Cincinnati
Cyrus H., McCormick, George
W.W. W. Corcoran
Samuel J. Tilden
Henry Ward Beecher
University
Andrews
E. Benjamin
Brown University
Alness
Robert E. Lee
South
Congress
State Department
Ponte
Keda
Marshall
Europe
Movie Executive and Mythic Clues Puzzle
A themed puzzle item listing horizontal and vertical clues for a word fill, blending cinema executive terms with mythic and musical hints. Includes definitions for many short answers such as Demigods Prefigures Doctrines and various cryptic cues. seeks crossfill solution.
Word Puzzle Clue Answers For Aharon Solving Set
The list provides possible crosswords style hints and answers including woolly, speaker, fur type, horn, sailors, Danish weights, storm, brain passage, Hebrew letter, abstract being, age, American writer, while and bone. Each clue suggests a single word fit or common crossword answer.
Quotes on peace and atomic warfare fears by Gen Vandergrift
A quotation from Gen A A Vandergrift, commandant of the US Marine Corps, questions whether fear of atomic warfare drives people to accept any peace at any price.
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A. A. Vandergrift
USMC
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anti-Thomas Committee
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Victor E. Levine
Creighton University School of Medicine
John L. Lewis
UMW
Lynn Nisbet
Clinton P. Anderson
The
Star Farm Bureau
Secretary of Agriculture
W. A. Bivins
George Sokolsky
Treasury
Jack Waldron
Reuben
Ted Dale
Gerald L. K. Smith
Hollywood
Fun
Harbach
Billy
Loews
Ina Oes Sta Theatre
Edgar A. Guest
Poe
Rodzinski
Symphony
Flagstad
el Morocco
Italy
Don Pallini
Pauley
New Yorker Mag
Hamilton Basso
Ross Lockridge, Jr
Raintree County
Lockwood
George Stewart
Random House
Jean
Rob
Boardman
New York City
John
Herb Jeffries
Blue Angel
Edith Piaf
Sala Per Seane
An Weekly
Ferenco
Franco
Maridedo
Madrid
Cleveland
Chum
Fugitive
Bud Taylor
Sheraton Lounge
Thelma Stevens
Powers
Dr.sey
Hooper
J. Benny
Boston
Vorree Fonnee
Joppan
Gilmore’s
Taft
Club Bagatelle
Cub
Wallace
Dacy
London
Broadway
Doris Duke Rubirosa
Lois Defoe
Throckmorton
James Mason
8Th Ave
181St St
Arabian Gulf
Guido
Joker
Fleet
EIA
Deane
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