Buying Agents Seek Answer to Length of Boom
In Cleveland, purchasing agents from the National Association of Purchasing Agents assess the midyear business climate. They forecast continued growth into the year’s third quarter with a potential late-year slowdown, citing inventory pressures and price expectations amid a booming but inflation-linked period.
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REW
York
Cleveland
National Association of Purchasing Agents
R.C. Swanton
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Association
T. A. Corcoran
Louisville Courier Journal
The
Louisville Times
Missouri Tennessee Bridge To Start Early In Year
Missouri-Tennessee bridge plans move forward with site surveys. The span across the Mississippi would connect Missouri’s Bootheel to Tennessee, potentially within three years. Officials say costs depend on site chosen and aim to meet with Tennessee officials soon. The project would be the only river crossing between Cairo and Memphis.
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Souri
Muri-Tennessee Bridge Commission
Forrestith
Mississippi River
Missour
Tennessee
Cairo
Memphis
Tenn
Missouri
J. F. Patterson
Missouri Commission
Patterson
Missouri Highway Commission
Gordon Browning
Tennessee Highway Department
Missour Commission
N. W. Helm
Pemiscot
M. R
Inflation Fears Stir Retail Association Warnings
The association, with 7300 member stores nationwide, cautions against inflationary price hikes amid public reaction and to protect inventories. Dr Edwin G Nourse warns the economy may be in early inflation with risks of a boom followed by deflation. Most buyers expect a summer leveling off and business stability for the year.
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Nourse
Brazilian Police Nip Red Plot Across Brazil
Federal Police said a four city Communist uprising plot was discovered at Recife and suppressed. The plan linked to prior disclosures of nationwide rioting to coincide with the October 3 presidential elections. Meridional said the uprising would start in Recife and spread north and south.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Federal
Brazil
Hecife
Communist Party
Meridional
Releife
Fan
St Charles Population Figures Show Growth in County and City
Official census data released show St Charles County with a population of 23777, up 1835 percent in ten years. The city of St Charles lists 14307 residents, a 32.4 percent rise from the prior count.
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St. Charles
Consolation Prizes Named For Sunday's Derby Winners
Plans detail prizes for Derby entrants with top award a four year college scholarship and a Chevrolet gift for the local champion. Second place gets a full outfit and a 1950 Chevrolet sedan goes to national runner up. Third prize includes a 16mm camera and projector. Remainder receive various prizes as Akron event nears. Cars undergo inspection and test runs Thursday before Sundays three lane race between Atchison and Woodlawn on Madison Street.
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Chevrolet
Jefferson City
Akron
Saveep
Nationa Racing
Nikiploma
Sui
The
Lions Club
News and Tribune
Iical
Dix Road
Hiler
Atchison
Woodlawn
Madison Street
East German Firemen Defect to West Berlin
Four East German police firemen fled today to West Berlin amid postwar tension. One resisted capture at gunpoint during escape. In the past month forty two defected from the Eastern force described by allies as a secret Russian trained army. One man reached the American sector to see his bride as eastern police pursued him. A western patrol and detachment crossed the Soviet boundary to intervene.
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Berlix
West Berlin
Pistal Point
Liberal Aid Plan Aims to Expand Social Security
Senator George said a more liberal social security program is needed to extend coverage to about 10 million more people and raise benefits. The Senate Finance Committee opened debate on the bill, a revised House measure, aiming for early action next week. The plan broadens eligibility and uses higher benefits to reduce state and federal old age relief burdens. It would add about 700,000 beneficiaries in 1951, while excluding farmers and some professionals.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Early Action Administration
Senate
House
Death of Agnes Smedley follows surgery in Britain
Agnes Smedley, 56, American writer on China, died after stomach ulcers surgery in Britain. A postmortem at Oxford cited broncho-pneumonia and acute cardiac failure. Earlier, Rep. Harold Velde claimed she was a Soviet agent. the army retracted that charge.
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London
Agnes Smedley
China
Harold H. Velde
Peoria
Ill
Miss Smedler
Uy & FL
Velde
Oxford
Army
Russ Smedley
Shanghai
Dewey Short Opposes Renewed Rent Control
Washington report states Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri calls rent control un American, unfair and discriminatory. He plans to oppose a House vote on an extension as a Senate measure passes. Short says controls were wartime only and now harm owners and diligent taxpayers.
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Dewey Short
Washington
Rep. Short
R-Mo
Senate
Short
Army Officer Hurt in Plunge Over Lake Dam
Branson reports Captain Oran Rupert, 35, of Killeen, tossed from a boat near Tanevcomo Dam. He plunged over the dam and was rescued to a Branson hospital after witnesses said he had been to a picture show earlier.
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Lake Dam
Branson
Oran Rupert
Killeen
Tanevcomo
I. Day
Attenda
Rupert
GOP Senators Seek Probe Of Amerasia Case Handling
Twenty one Republican senators pressed for a Senate judiciary inquiry into how the Justice Department handled the 1945 Amerasia secret documents case. Senator Capehart introduced a resolution directing a full investigation into DOJ conduct of the Amerasia prosecutions. The case involved discovery of hundreds of secret government files at Amerasia’s New York headquarters.
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Washington
Justice Department
Amerasia
Capehart
R-Ind
Senate Judiciary Committee
McCarthy
R-Wis
GOP
Judiciary Committee
Department of Justice
New York
Pecan Have ‘Beg ,Charaes
Prosecution Fines Amerasia Case and Jerboa Jump Facts
The prosecution fined Amerasia associate Ong 2500 for conspiracy to illegally possess government documents. Jaffe faced questions before the foreign relations subcommittee about his affiliations, with contempt possible if he refuses to answer. A Jerboa, a small rodent, can jump up to fifteen feet in a bound due to its scaled body and strong hind legs.
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Perso
Ong
Philip Ja. Amerasia
Jaffe
Fragmentary OCR Reads Hazy Tire Market Notes
Fragmented readable lines mention tires and eye strains, with references to Indirria and Lavoptik. Numbers and clear entities are unclear due to garbled text. The piece hints at a market or product discussion but lacks coherent facts or a named event.
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Denmark
Viborg
Dad
Phil A. Dallmeyer
E. High
PMA
Ihat
Thomson Phosphate Company
AQT South
John ¥. Halli
Centertown
Japan
Urang
Indirria
Tolson Drug CO
America
National Biscuit Company
SPS AS
Nabisco
Niagara
Falls
Mercury Dan Coppin
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