American Express plans two transatlantic liners by 1950
A $40 million program to build two American flag passenger ships for New York to Genoa and Naples routes was announced by American Export Lines. Each ship at 683 feet long would carry 937 passengers, reach 22.5 knots, use 50,000 hp turbine drives, and require crews over 500.
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New York
Expct
John E. Slater
Slater
Maritime Commission
Genoa
Naples
Riviera
American Export
Mediterranean
Farmers See Food Prices Rising Through 1948 Survey Says
New York November 22 A survey of 800 farmer panel members of the Grocery Manufacturers of America shows a majority expect raw farm product prices to rise in 1948, level off in 1949, and fall in 1950. Forty-five percent foresee a 1948 rise, 35 percent a fall, and 20 percent a hold.
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New York
Grocery Manufacturers of America Inc
Farm Panel of America
Europe
Argentina Boosts Harvest Prices to Accelerate Grain Exports
Buenos Aires announces higher prices and bonuses for grain producers to speed harvests to market. A decree follows National Economic Council recommendations as experts seek full impact amid debate over farmer profits and aid to Europe under the Marshall plan.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
United States
Chicago
In Exchange
National Economic Council
U. S
Europe
Senate poised to approve Truman relief plan
The Senate prepares to back President Truman's stopgap European relief bill of 597 million dollars as House Republicans probe long term aims. Senate tests relief amid calls for swift action while House delays and rules-committee opposition loom. Debate begins Monday as agriculture inventory is reviewed.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fey
France
Italy
Austria
Congress
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
House Rules Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson
Stassen Sees Encouraging GOP Prospects After Swing
In a Stassen statement from St. Paul he says after touring Mountain Southwestern and Southern states he is very encouraged by prospects for the Republican presidential nomination. He plans to officially open his campaign Monday in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Harold FE
Stassen
Milwaukee
Wis
Labor Leaders Call for Wages Rise as Food Costs Jump
Washington reports wage increases in two sectors 12 1 2 percent for men in clothing and 15 percent for railroad workers affecting about 350 000 employees. CIO AFL leaders urge a third round if food prices stay high. Labor economists cite insufficient evidence to predict broad raises while textile mills in the South grant 9 percent raises after threatened strikes.
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Max Hall
Washington
Labor Department
CIO
AFL
Jacob S. Potofsky
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Cio
Victor S. Reisenfeld
U. S. Clothing Manufacturers Association
Hage Textile
Cost of Living Soars to New September High
The cost of living index rose to 163.8 percent of the 1935-39 base, 66.1 percent above prewar August 1939, with September 1947 showing a 2.2 percent rise from August. Food costs jumped 3.6 percent, rents 2.2, and house furnishings 1.8 as wholesale food prices remained elevated year over year.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumers’ Co
Bureau
Aeser
Memphis
Mobile
Philadelphia
New York
New York City
Mechanical Find Keeps Boy Alive
A six year old from Alamosa, Morris Richardson, remains alive in Pueblo after a series of operations for injuries from being run over by a semi trailer. A mechanical bladder made of tubes and a pump maintains his life while surgeons repair a bladder rupture, intestines damage, and a fractured pelvis. Two more operations will follow once healing completes.
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Pueblo
Colo
Alamosa
Morris Richardson
Romeo
Power Issue Seen as Key to 1948 Democratic Campaign
Albany, N Y November 22 Commissioner Leland Olds of the federal power commission said an all front drive by utility forces to reverse the Roosevelt power policy gives Democrats a splendid issue for the 1948 presidential campaign He warned Dewey seeks the GOP nomination by avoiding leadership and cited TVA public utility acts and rural electrification as core Roosevelt programs now threatened by reactionary forces seeking to restore private water power and weaken federal regulation President Truman supports strong regulatory agencies for public interest
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Albany
N. Y
Leland Olds
Federal Power Commission
Thomas E. Dewey
Olds
Young Democrats of
New York
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Rural Electrification Administration
Roosevelt Power
TVA
Grand Jury Action Sought Against Meyers in War Probe
The justice department signalled for a grand jury action against Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers after Senate investigators heard wartime chief H. H. Arnold denounce him as a rotten apple. Investigators plan to pursue fraud tax and perjury charges, with Arnold urging severe action. Meyers testified of stock schemes tied to a firm his wife’s former associate allegedly ran as dummy president, claiming a wartime purchase of 4 million.
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Washington
Justice Department
Bennett FE. Meyers
Senate
Meyers
Army
H. H. Arnold
Arnold
Army Air Force
Senate War Investigating Committee
Clark
Meg
Ferguson
R-Mich
Special War
Eee
Criminal Division
Senate Banking Committee
USA Appeals for Partition Plan in UN Palestine Debate
United States envoy Herschel Johnson urged the United Nations to approve partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states with economic union. He said the plan offers flexibility and is the most practicable solution despite imperfections, as debate continued with 22 speakers scheduled.
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General Assembly
Johnson
Carl Berendsen
New Zealand
Palestine
Soviet Dismisses Allies as Primed to Start War
Soviet Marshal Wassily D. Sokolovsky accused American and British authorities in Germany of intensive propaganda for a new war and violating Potsdam Yalta agreements. Gen. Lucius D. Clay rejected the charges as misrepresentation of facts and urged record-based judgment as the foreign ministers conference nears.
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Wes Gallagher
Berlin
Wassily D. Sokolovsky
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
Russia
London
Sokolovsky
Allied Control Council
Foreign Ministers
Moscow
Potsdam
Yalta
Europe
Berin
Clay
United States
Soldiers expose search for missing airmen in Lololand
Two U S soldiers Edward McAllister and John Fox lived as priests for six months in Lololand China to verify rumors of five airmen held captive. They found evidence of slavery but traced each rumor to rescues or mistaken identity, noting 35 of 36 airmen known to crash in Lololand were saved with local help.
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Nanking
U. S
China
Edward McAllister
Alleghany
John Fox
Tacoma
Washey
U.S
India
Lololand
Sikang-Szechwan
Provence
McCallister
Wilds
Fox
Loleland
North China
Lolosand
Couple Seeks Names for Third Set of Twins in 50 Years
Graceville Minnesota reports Mr and Mrs Francis Siefert awaiting two names for their third set of twins in 50 years. Twin boys born Thursday night at Holy Trinity hospital join siblings Mary Anne Marie Frances five, James Charles three, and others Anthony two and Gertrude four. Mary Anne and Marie Frances born May 1942.
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Graceville
Minn
Francis Siefert
Holy Trinity Hospital
Mary Anne
Marie Frances
James
Charles
Anthony
Gertrude
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