Polio Vaccine Release Under New Tests Reaches 300000 Shots
The Public Health Service released about 300 000 doses of Salk polio vaccine tested under new standards. Wyeth Laboratories produced it in Marietta Pa It comes after revised production rules issued May 26 and raises total vaccine availability to 1 837 000 cubic centimeters since the new standards began The broader vaccination program has supplied about 9 000 000 cubic centimeters since April 12 The service announced plans for developmental research and assigned scientists to vaccine makers to speed information exchange.
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Public Health Service
Wyeth Laboratories
Marietta
Health Service
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Love Warns on Cotton Imports and quota Plan
F S Love of Charlotte warned Lancaster civic club that without an equitable import quota on cotton goods the U S cotton industry will collapse. He cited drastic tariff concessions for Japan and urged a controlled increase in Japanese imports not exceeding 50 percent of peak past volumes. He supported ACMI's proposed import controls to preserve the industry.
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S.C
Charlotte
American Cotton Manufacturers Institute
Japan
State Department
U.S
Love
E ’ Ing
Acmi Exve
June employment hits record 64 million in United States
The Commerce and Labor Departments reported 64,016,000 Americans employed in June, a postwar high, with unemployment rising slightly to 2,679,000. Manufacturing jobs climbed 148,000 while total employment rose despite school closings and strikes. The unemployment rate fell to 99 on a 1947-49 base, and long-term jobless declined by 200,000 to 650,000. After earlier peaks, overtime in May and June reached wartime highs.
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Washington
Commerce and Labor Departments
Labor
Mitchell
Weeks
Russell proposes $400 reserve bonus for veterans
Sen. Russell moves to offer a $400 bonus to veterans who volunteer for three years of active reserve training in combat units of the Army or Marine Corps. The plan targets 800,000 WW II veterans recalled in Korea and would exclude Air Force Navy and noncombat units. About 400,000 veterans could join under the proposal, costing $160 million.
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Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Army
Marine Russell
Senate Armed Services Committee
Eisenhower
House
National Guard
Rep
Powell
Clarence Mitchell
The
National Assn
Air Force
Navy
Armed Services Committee
Cotton Plantings Are Down in July 1 Report
The Agriculture Department says cotton in cultivation on July 1 totaled 17.096 million acres, down 14 percent from last year. If output averages 300 pounds per acre, the crop would yield about 10.257 million bales, far below last year’s 13.679 million bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
White House Presses Memphis on Power Plan Review
The administration seeks official assurance that Memphis will provide its own power as it reevaluates canceling the Dixon Yates contract. Hagerty said the review continues, and an example of assurance would be a mayoral and council vote asserting Memphis sole responsibility for power. The budget director is also continuing the ordered restudy.
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White House
Memphis
Dixon-Yates
Tennessee Valley Authority
Eisenhower
TVA
West Memphis
Ark
Dixon-Yates Group
Atomic Energy Cmmission
AEC
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Rowland Hughes
Peron Fires 80 Officers of Navy After Revolt
Buenos Aires Argentina President Juan D Peron dismissed 80 navy officers and 25 air force personnel for the June 16 revolt and bombing of his office. The Supreme Council branded them rebels and most fled to Uruguay. The council seeks more names while reporting on the revolt and awaiting Peron’s approval. The Iton Radical party said it was denied radio time to respond to a presidential address.
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Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Air Force
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
Uruguay
Navy
Anibal O. Olivieri
Peron
Iton Radical Party
Laxities in zinc contracts probe draws Senate hearing
The Senate Banking Committee summoned Comptroller General Joseph Campbell to a closed session on a report of laxities in zinc contract dealings tied to a dollar-a-year man who headed both the Defense Material Procurement Agency and the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co. The probe delays a defense production act extension as lawmakers weigh restricting private firms’ on loan executives from defense roles. Campbell notes GAO findings of losses due to these laxities.
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Senate, Banking Committee
Joseph Campbell
Campbell
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate
Defense Material Procurement Agency
American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co
Commerce Department
Howard I. Young
St. Louis
American Zinc and Smelting Co
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congress
Graham Sermon Reaches All Norway in Oslo Crowd
George Burnham reports Billy Graham drew over 40 000 at Bislet Stadium Oslo. Radio stations nationwide carried the sermon and cross border reception reached into Russia. A train from Kirkenes brought pilgrims from the Land of the Midnight Sun as Norway rebuilds after occupation.
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Chattanooga News-Free Press
OSC
Norway
Billy Graham
North Carolina
Oslo
Bislet Stadium
Russia
Eden outlines Western arms pool for East West balance
Prime Minister Eden proposed that the Soviet bloc could join a Western European arms control pool. He urged NATO unity and support for German unification while offering assurances to Russia that Western nations can extend reasonable security arrangements. He cited the seven-nation West European Union and ongoing controls on rearmament.
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Eden
Russia
Germany
Britain
NATO
United States
West European Union
Reich
France
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Eute
Russian jets show superior engine power, expert says
John R. Alison of Northrop Aircraft Co. told civic and military leaders in San Francisco that Soviet bombers over Moscow display jet engines with about 15,000 pounds of thrust, exceeding thrust of any American jets in operation.
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San Francisco
Moscow
John R. Alison
Northrop Aircraft Co
Coast Guard ends hoax ship search off New Jersey
Rescue teams and planes scoured about 4000 square miles off Barnegat after a distress call from the Blue Star claimed sinking. Officials ruled the report a hoax noting only a defective life preserver and oil slick found at the scene. No submarine or survivors were located and the search was suspended.
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Coast Guard
Blue Star
New Jersey
Qmdr
James Doyle
Surfa
T. Coast Guard
Barnegat
N.J
Atlantic
Julius F. Jaycot
Third Coast Guard District
Jaycot
Army Engineers Hurricane Study Fund Approved
A House Senate conference panel agreed to a one million dollar appropriation for an Army engineers hurricane study. The compromise bill will go to both chambers early next week after the Senate had proposed 500 thousand dollars.
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Washington
Army Engineers
House-Senate
House
Senate
Money Bill Sent To House
House Appropriations Committee backs a 20 percent cut totaling 627.9 million in Eisenhower foreign aid funds and sends a 2.638 billion money bill to the House for next week’s debate. It cites a chaotic fiscal situation in military aid and flags last minute obligations as problematic.
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House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
House
Rep. Passman
D-La
Defense Department
Europe
Near East
Africa
Asia
$100 Bills Touch Off Continental Bank Robbery Link Probe
Las Vegas police chased a possible link to the Queens Chase Manhattan Bank robbery after two men used new $100 bills at gaming tables. Ellsworth and Wilson, with over $87,000 seized, were jailed pending robbery investigations and fingerprint checks coupled with New York photo lineups.
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Nev
New York
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Queens
N.Y
Frank Ellsworth
Ray
B. J. Handlen
Ellsworth
Wilson
Handlen
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Tenn
Tulsa
Okla
Wichita
Kan
Oklahoma
McAlester
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