Veterans Still Living in Tin Fox Holes Across U. S.
More than 760000 veterans and families endure winter in emergency dwellings like quonsets. In New York City area 10255 families pack into temporary housing while waiting for permanent homes. Fuel shortages loom as kerosene stockpiled aims to cover needs. tenants doubt sufficiency.
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New York
Public Housing Administration
New York City
Dea
American Legion Post
City Housing Authority
Moffat
Science Probing Mystery Of Human Reproduction
A National Research Council committee leads a funded program with maternal health and Planned Parenthood groups to study human reproduction. The project aims to uncover causes of miscarriages stillbirths and infertility while exploring conception, embryonic development and fertility controls to address overpopulation and health impacts.
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Committee On Human Reproduction
National Research Council
National Committee On Maternal Health
Maternal Health Group
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
America
Germans Prefer Jungles To Europe
In Hamburg thousands of Germans respond to two Ruhr papers ads seeking volunteers for two large Congo and Amazon expeditions led by Gustav Hahnke. About 85 percent seek to flee Europe with 22 men chosen per expedition amid over 3000 applicants. Emil Wacker, owner of the German Apollo circus, plans to send the expeditions next year to collect elephants tigers and snakes for German circuses and zoos.
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Hamburg
Germany
Europe
Ruhr
Gustav Hahnke
Emil Wacker
Apollo
Congo
Amazon
Russian surgeon N I Pirogov body restored after war damage
The body of renowned Russian surgeon N I Pirogov, embalmed 65 years ago, has been restored by Soviet scientists. Damaged during World War II by German occupation, the coffin was split and the body decomposed until two years of work restored him to his death condition. he lies in a zinc glass top coffin near his former home in the Vinnytsia region, now in a new case under glass.
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Moscow
N. I. Pirogov
Vinnitzky Oblast
Medical Worker
Pirogov
Paeed
Third Man film in Vienna under Graham Greene plan
Carol Reed, director of Odd Man Out, is in Vienna to film The Third Man with Joseph Cotten leading. Austrian actors will be used extensively as the screen story is by Graham Greene. In Stockholm reports list a fox among streetcar victims, while Americans consume over 1.5 billion quarts of ice cream annually.
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Vienna
Carol Reed
Graham Greene
Joseph Cotton
Louisville's male tax substitutes poll tax with work or money
In Louisville Colorado a yearly $3 levy applies to all males 21 to 60 as a substitute for a poll tax. Noncompliance means four hours of city work at 75 cents per hour. The tax, active since 1882, excludes war veterans and firemen and is not related to voting.
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Jamaica Bay
American Veterans Committee
Tenants’ Association
Long
Howard C. Taylor, Jr
College Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
Schenectady
N. Y
General Electric Co. Engineers
Louisville
Colo
Colorado
John A. Dionigini
Austria Counts Her Refugees
Vienna reports the International Refugee Organization figures show 425000 registered displaced persons and refugees in Austria. Include are 85000 with German citizenship or German ancestry expelled from other countries and 65000 miscellaneous aliens with indefinite residence and no guarantees.
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Vienna
International Refugee Organization
IRO
Austria Citizenship Plan Sparks Refugee Debate
The Austrian plan to grant citizenship to 7.5 million people including 85,000 South Tyroleans remains undecided and faces strong Communist opposition. The proposal covers refugees and the broader Austrian population as authorities weigh the political fate of new citizens.
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High Point
N. C
Communist Party
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Bob Kushner
Kushner
By Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Science Reporter
United States
Research Council
Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
ICE Delivery Company
West Broad Street
Eastern Air Lines
Viebate
Aser Ta “Air Transportation
Raleigh
Washington
Pentagon Bulding
New Jefferson Monument
Mellon Art Gallery
Official
White House
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
C. Schiffeler
Orkin
Washington St
Paas
Films IN
Stockholm
Citys Streetcar Company
Austria
GH Point Pera Stores
Kececce
Lecce
Uit
Camel
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