Balmain on fashion and restraint in the new look
Fashion editorials note Balmain criticizes the overblown new look and urges restraint. He praises understated elegance, warns that many women cannot afford top couturiers, and advocates a personality over billowing dresses. He dislikes intentional sexiness and favors a quiet, well dressed appearance.
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USA
New York
Balman
Mr. Bal|ays
France
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Australia
Balmain
Fiji
Central Asian Cross-Desert Railway Advances
The Moscow UP report says funding and embankment for a new central Asian cross-desert railway are complete. Seventy thousand volunteer collective farmers laid 250 miles of track bed from the Amu Darya toward the Aral Sea in one month. A special track-laying machine is now laying rails.
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Moscow
Amu Darya
Aral Sea
Management and Labor Deals Reported
Washington reports the term boot leg contract describes agreements banned by law under Taft Hartley. It covers closed shop or union shop deals that may be signed but whose obligations are forbidden and not enforceable. NLRB counsel Denham warns such contracts invite trouble and can lead to legal actions for unfair labor practices.
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Ilegal
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
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Vlere
Buppose Eimpoyee
Jones
King
Denham
NLRG
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Mayors in Large Cities Earn High Salaries
The American Municipal Association reports the 13 largest U S cities pay mayors an average of 517,236 yearly. Detroit and New York top at 25,000. San Francisco and Boston at 20,000. Chicago Los Angeles and Philadelphia at 18,000. Milwaukee at 13,074 with a cost of living bonus.
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American Municipal Association
Washington, D.C
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Los Angeles
Philadelphia
New York
Scientists seek work in Australia as 800 apply
Canberra reports about 800 German scientists applying to Australia with 250 under active consideration. The group covers metallurgists chemists micro-analysts physicists biochemists electrical and chemical engineers and instrument makers and is disclosed by Minister for Postwar Reconstruction John J Dedman.
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Canberra
John J. Dedman
Equipment shaping postwar college labs and classes
Postwar policy allowing sale of war surplus to colleges lets students work with equipment they could not previously afford. Institutions like Case Institute and University of Maryland gained major tools and buildings at a fraction of value, expanding enrollments and modernizing curricula across physics chemistry and engineering.
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NEA
Cleveland
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America
Pennsylvania College For Women
Case Institute of Technogaly
Institute
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Cornell, University
University of Souther California
al Blaich
USC
Blaich
University of Maryland
High Court Rules on Searching of Suspect
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that OPA investigators and a detective had no right to arrest and search a man riding in a car with a person suspected of black market activity. They set aside the Buffalo man's conviction for violating the second War Powers Act after counterfeit gasoline ration coupons were found. Justice Jackson delivered the majority opinion. Chief Justice Vinson and Justice Black dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
OPA
Michael DiRe
Buffalo
Justice Jackson
Iobheld Dike
Vinson
Justice Black
City Travelers Record High Trolley Ridership in 1946
United States transit systems reported a record daily average of over 64 million passengers in 1946, with trolley coaches street cars and buses carrying the bulk ofurban travel amid postwar demand and reconstruction efforts.
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United States
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