ODM seeks new procurement plan to ease textile unemployment
Washington ODM mobilizers push union leaders to apply a government procurement approach that favors distressed textile areas while avoiding widespread job losses. Northerners push for regional price differentials. Southerners resist changing the lowest bid policy.
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Washington
Office of Defense Mobilization
ODM
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers Union of America, Cio
Mariano S. Bishop
Cotton and Rayon
John Chupa
William Belanger
New England
Geargsist Thrsay
J. Forrester Davison
Briton Calls U. S. Women Lousy Lovers
London based anthropologist Dr. E J Dingwall claims American women are unsatisfactory lovers blaming female dominance for neuroses among men. He asserts European women have happier sex lives and says his forthcoming book portrays American womanhood as a matriarchy driven by emancipation.
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London
E.J. Dingwall
Dingwall
United States
Wall Seid
MacArthur Returns To Sentiment At Little Rock
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, returning from his Little Rock birthplace, spoke with emotion about shadows deepening as he reflected on past years. His chartered plane endured engine trouble 30 minutes from Ville, Tennessee, but the party, including his son Arthur, remained aboard during repairs.
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Douglas MacArthur
Little Rock
Ark
Arthur
Ville
Tenn
Capital Airlines
Peekeeen Soness
MacArthur Park
Army Arsenal
Mississippi
Jackson
Europe
Macrthur
Army Opens War Games In Texas
Fort Hood Texas 115000 troops begin Exercise Longhorn the largest war drill in U S history to test rapid movement and atomic weapons use in ground combat The 82nd Airborne 57th Infantry 1st Armored and 31st Divisions plus Air Force units participate airlift by C 124 and C 46 aircraft enables mass assault into Lampasas Temple area mock atomic blasts planned with no actual explosion and casualty care included
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Texas
82Nd Airborne Division
Lampasas
57Th Infantry Division
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9Th
Tactical) Air Force
18Th
31St
Shaw Air Force Base
8.C
Dixie Division
Temple
Air Force
Longhorn
William M. Hoge
4Th Army
Conventions Still Hold Sway In Presidential Pick
Analysis argues that despite several state primaries the 1940s party conventions still choose the nominees via delegates. It notes 32 states use party machines while 16 allow voter preference, with limited direct primaries in New Hampshire Minnesota New Jersey and others. Senator George Smithers proposes direct 48 state primaries.
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Wala
Gates
Minnesota
Newshire
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Eisenhower
Taft
Auver
George Smithers
Florida
Egyptian Premier Plans New Party to Challenge Wafd
Premier Neguib El-Hilaly Pasha moves to create a party to oppose the Nationalistic Wafd in the May 18 general election. The plan follows King Farouk’s dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies and electiondate setting. The Wafd, once led by Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, held power since 1950. Hilaly, a former Wafdist and ex education minister, aims to recruit ex-Wafdists and independents.
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Eevee
Neguib El-Hilaly Pasha
Wafd
Farouk
Chamber of Deputies
Wafdists
Saadists
Egypt
Mustafa el Nahas Pasha
Hilaly
Priceless Michelangelo Sculpture Shown in Alabama
In Birmingham crowds viewed a claimed Michelangelo statue, a 22 inch Carrara marble Pieta variant with four figures. Experts valued the piece at millions, owned by Clermont-Ferrand and brought to Alabama by Wendell S. Howard, who may use proceeds for Clermont aid.
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Birmingham
Ala
Michelangelo
Nicodemus
Christ
Mary
Mary Magdalene
Michelan
Florence
Ialy
Clermont-Ferrand
France
International Fire Fighter Answers Call
Myron Kinley, famed oil well fire fighter, left Houston for Cremona Italy to tackle a new well fire. It would be his third blaze in Italy after recently meeting in France to extinguish another fire.
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Houston
Tex
Myron Kinley
Cremona
Italy
Era
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