Top U S Businessman Views UN Role in World Progress
Clarence Francis of General Foods Corp leads American Citizens committee during UN Week talks. He says foreign visitors gain insight from American private enterprise as scientists tour plants and learn methods for conserving resources. Francis urges cooperation across governments to raise living standards and security.
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Communists Sweep Across Europe and China Form New Regimes
Reports from Hungary Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Poland and Yugoslavia hint at scrapping aid pacts as Cominform satellites move to sever ties. Prague sees arrests of petty officials while eastern Germany floods western zones with shoppers and border controls ease. In China Peiping’s new government proclaims legitimacy as Chou En-Lai and Peng Te-tung lead, as forces threaten Canton to topple the nationalist capital.
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Coal Labor Struggles Flare In Southern Mines
In coal regions during a tense week, southern operators failed to pay their 20 cents per ton. MW and northern western reps met at White Sulphur Springs Va to negotiate a new cent. Idle miners shouted No pension fund work as violence cooled into weekend routines. injunctions in Kanawha and Columbiana counties and armed diggers in western Pa restrained mass picketing.
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Truman Has No Plans to Intervene in Steel Labor Talks
U S Steel rejects three union proposals on pensions insurance and wage increases in a clash over cost sharing for Social Security style benefits. Murray defends union offers as sincere and just, while Olds cites established practice of employee contributions. No company reply forthcoming.
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Fairless
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Ways and Means Committee
College grid results and a broad strike note report
The roundup lists numerous college football scores from across regions with a standout note on the 1947 steel strike where United States Steel declines to bow to a Presidential steel board ultimatum and iron and steel supply durability. It covers Oberlin Kenyon J S Smith St Paul Texas University Idaho Worcester Michigan Notre Dame California Stanford USC and more with a late Cornell Colgate 39 27 thriller featuring 20 000 spectators and a fourth quarter Colgate rally.
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Congress Debates Pay Rise Amid Talks of $25 000 Target
Congress may raise pay by about 25000 with a tax free expense allowance and a formal 15000 official take. Democratic leader McCormack says no organized drive but warns one could emerge next year as some members push for higher pay. A previous raise lifted salaries from 10000 to 12500 and the expense allowance plus clerical funds followed. Separately the world's cloves face pest trouble from the hot water ant in Zanzibar and Pemba.
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Pemba
Cloves From Zanzibar and Pemba Dominate Global Trade
Cloves are dried flower buds from evergreen trees of the myrtle family. Four fifths of the world supply come from Zanzibar and Pemba, islands off the East Africa coast.
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Pemba
East Africa
Atomic power for planes could replace coal and fuel limits
The article notes the potential of atomic energy to power aircraft and extend submarine and ship ranges, while warning that the reactor program risks radiation accidents and costly delays. It reports the AEC’s slow progress and possible demand for extra funds beyond the current $1.1 million for the fiscal year.
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