Peacetime barriers to inflation take shape in reconversion
Washington dispatch details government moves to curb costs as peacetime barriers replace wartime controls. OPA limits price passage on new appliances, Bowles pursues uniform building material ceilings, and plans unfold for surplus property control and agency mergers. Brookings warns wage-driven inflation risks while home-building projections rise.
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Washington
OPA
Truman
Surplus Property Board
Office of Economic Stabilization
Brookings Institution
Chester Bowles
Joseph E. Merrion
National Association of Home Builders
Merrion
John W. Snyder
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Snyder
Bowles
Brookings ‘Institution
Brookings
William H. Davis
William Stuart Symington
St. Louis
K. Truman
Robert H. Hurley
Connecticut
Edward H. Heller
California
Robot Quiz Kid Solves 4-Year Problem in 10 Days
Westinghouse engineers unveil an electrical robot that solves complex mechanical problems in days. Dr. Gilbert D. McCann and Harry E. Criner explain the machine models forces and outcomes of a crate drop, using electrical equivalents to mimic gravity, impact, and cushioning.
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Ittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Gilbert D. McCann
Harry E. Criner
Westinghouse Engineers
Dr. McCann
Westinghouse
Alligator Purse With Marriage License Recovered
In Manhatta Kansas on September 19 a brown alligator purse containing Mrs. Richard Seitz’s marriage license issued in France to Col. Richard Seitz was recovered. The finder returned the bag and received a reward and heartfelt thanks for the act of service to the former Red Cross worker overseas.
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Manhatta
Kas
Richard Seitz
Red Cross
France
Col
Admiral Bruce Fraser Heads Pacific Fleet at Sea
On board the Duke of York en route to Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, 57, commander in chief of the first British Pacific fleet, is profiled as a genial, stoic naval leader famed for protecting Arctic convoys to Russia and steering Britain’s surface and air forces. His diaries reveal terse messages like Scharnhorst sunk and the fleet anchored in Japanese waters.
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Hong Kong
Pacific
Sir Bruce Fraser
Britain
Tubby
West Point
Sir Bruce
Navy
Army
Hampton Palace
Thames
Fraser
Scharnhorst
North Cape
Norway
Admiralty
Royal Navy
Russia
Murmansk
Baku
Caspian Sea
End of the World Call Sparks Editor’s Patient Dismissal
A Pasadena dispatch quoted a retired missionary predicting the world’s end next Friday prompting an indignant call to the editor that night. A reader complains his wife refuses to pickle or preserve, asking what’s the use.
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Pretts
Saint John
N. B
Pasadena Dispatch
Guilford County Real Estate Transfers
Real estate transfers in Guilford County list multiple lot deeds in High Point area. Transactions include Charles C Redding and wife to J Ly man Redding. T P Kimrey to Dr C E Reitzel. Lena H Thacker to Robert A Mitchell. Jennie E Craven to Everett W Lee. Paul Miller Thornburg to B J Snyder. Charles A Maness to Blake Thompson and back. W E Norman to J W Smithwick. Mamie Stamey to Minnie E Gray. E P King to John G Peters. A E Joiner to C C Watson. City of High Point to W E Norman. Ernest King to John G Peters.
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Lon Ae
Charles A. Maness
Blake Thompson
Reddinglanda
Charlie A. Maness
Redding
W. E. Norman
J. W. Smithwick
Mamie Stamey
Minnie E. Gray
Jones Subdivision
E. P. King
John G. Peters
Bundy
A. E. Joiner
C. C. Watson
Brentwood
High Point
Ernest King
King
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IC Delivery Company
West Grand Street
Sane Ocg A
SSS Tonic
Hal Boyle
Boise
Idaho
Charles C. Gossett
Gossett
L. J. Lull
State Health Department
Lull
Blackfoot
Denver
James R. Lira
Lira
Metcalf
Okinawa
Hugh Rhode
Rhode
Allen Bell
Edgar County
Guilford County Real Estate Transers
Malpass and Kearns Food Market
North Wrenn and
Richardson Streets
Duke
California Angel
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