Women Drive Change in Yokosuka Navy Rule Shift
In Yokosuka Japan the U S Navy replaces male dominance with women's empowerment as a new civilian-led administration takes shape. Capt Benton Decker calls Japanese women fundamentally honest and pivotal to Japan's progress. The 1946 Yokosuka Shinsei club grows to 58000 members and women help distribute subsisted foods as elections show women voting side by side with men.
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Yokosuka
Japan
U.S. Navy
Nder Jap
Rising Sun Navy
Surpreme
Mabo Memorial College
Naval Base
Benton Decker
USN
Shinsei Women's Club
U.S
Duke Law Prints Rail Freight Rates Symposium Article
Robert R. Young chairs a Duke Law symposium piece on international freight rates in Law and Contemporary Problems. The article surveys rate discrimination against the South and West, with multiple scholars from Yale UNC Illinois and more examining rate structures and regulatory action.
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Durham
Robert R. Young
Duke University School of Law
South
Young
New York
David M. Potter
Department of History
Yale University
Milton S. Heath
Intersta Commerce Commission
Arne Wiprud
District of Columbia Bar
Sidney S. Alderman
Southern Railway System
Duke University
Stuart Daggett
Department of Economics
University of California
Pacific Coast
Millions Of Pounds Of Weed On Market
Association reports opening of the tobacco auction season on the nine middle belt markets in North Carolina. Opening averages are expected to be below last year’s 4,624,990 pounds at 48.98 cents per pound, with last season totaling 170,782,601 pounds sold at 47.20 cents. Markets include Aberdeen Carthage Durham Fuquay Varina Henderson Oxford Sanford Henderson Warrenton.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Middle Belt
Aberdeen
Carthage
Durham
Fuquay-Varina
Henderson
Oxford
Sanford
Warrenton
Twenty Feared Dead In Sinking Of Ship
In the Firth of Clyde off Glasgow Scotland the excursion boat Ocean foundered in heavy seas. Twenty people, mostly women or children, are dead or missing. only three of 23 aboard survived. Five family members were among the missing. search resumed at dawn over two miles where the cutter went down after gale gusts.
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Glascow
Scotland
Firth of Clyde
Firth
Kippering Herring and Magellan’s Territorial Claim
In making a herring into a kip per the fish is split opened salted and then placed in a smoking kiln over smoldering sawdust until considered done. Magellan claimed the Philippine Islands for Spain in 1521 but did not begin until 1. k
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Magellan
Philippine Islands
Spain
Forest System Covers 161 Areas and 181 Million Acres
The United States currently has 161 national forests spanning a total of 181 million acres. Officials note wide public access and diverse ecosystems across the national forest system.
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United States
Renaissance lighting used basket-like braziers with burning wood
During the Renaissance people used basket-like containers to burn wood for light. The devices served as makeshift braziers to illuminate spaces when candles were scarce.
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High Point
N. CC
Enterprise
Arthur Rickberry
NEA
U. S S. Navy
Duke Law
University of North Carolina
Wendell Berge
John Dickinson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philip Locklin
University of Illinois
Frank L. Barton
Department of Justice
James C. Nelson
United States Department of Commerce
Edward H. Miller
High Point Enterprise
Lev
North Main Street
Sears
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