Kansas City Star Publication Details 1948 Circulation
The Kansas City Star founded 1880 by William R Nelson, owner and publisher. Publication offices at Eighteenth street and Grand avenue. Rates list for morning evening Sunday through mail and carrier. Circulation figures for May 1948 show Evening 960,082 Morning 375,318 Weekly 441,241.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
United States
Eighteenth Street
Grand Avenue
The
Star
Unfinished Business and the Battle for Public Support
The piece argues that ideological warfare hinges on the social and economic terrain where nations contest world communism. Strategy should reflect the host society, aiming to persuade the people. victory requires democracy winning over public sentiment.
Broadway traffic light plan aims to protect pedestrians
The Kansas City Broadway corridor south of Linwood gains a traffic light at the busiest crosswalk between the Ambassador and Hyde Park hotels. Police presence and warnings expand at crossings while synchronized signals reduce delays. The improvement promises faster moving traffic and safer pedestrian crossings, possibly worth a new street’s cost.
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Kansas City
Broadway
Linwood
Ambassador
Hyde Park
Safety Islands
Eddie Chambon A Star Photographer Remembered For Half Century Work
Edward R. Chambon spent twenty-five years at The Star as a darkroom technician and photographer. He produced clear first rate news prints and captured personalities and events for community groups and youth clubs. He supported church work and neighborhood welfare and remained active in photography until illness slowed him.
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Edward R. Chambon
The
Star
Eddie Chambon
United States
Chambon
Whittier Community Association
North Side American Youth Club
Mr. Chambon
Revaluing the Mark Aimed at Western Germany Recovery
A planned revaluation of the German mark seeks to siphon 70 to 90 percent of circulating money. It aims to stabilize three western zones for economic self sufficiency and European recovery. The piece compares postwar inflation to wartime devaluation attempts and notes policy risks.
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Germany
Postwar currency reform urged amid inflation and black markets
The piece notes public money excess relative to goods, German and Russian stances on currency reform, and a Western zones devaluation that should have occurred earlier. It alleges some U S finance officers favored the Morgenthau plan and warns postwar inflation hurts confidence and fuels black market activity.
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Germany
Housing bill crisis risks Republican defeat if deadlocked
Congress faces a crucial fight over the Taft Ellender Wagner housing bill after clearing the House Banking Committee. The outcome hinges on the rules committee and the bill's public housing provisions, with critics arguing that blocking the measure jeopardizes democracy and leaves low income families without decent housing.
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Congress
House Banking Committee
Rules Committee
Republican Congress
Washington
Anglo American Alarm in Mediterranean Area
The United States and Britain pursue divergent aims in the Mediterranean while cooperating on North Africa air bases Cyprus and Trieste Naval links remain strong but tensions grow over Italy Greece and Turkey Moscow seeks to exploit any rift British French and American plans on former colonies shift amid Soviet pressure Italy faces unemployment emigration and a fragile balance of power as Trieste looms and Anglo American unity is challenged
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C. L. Sulzberger
The
New York Times
OME
Mediterranean
Britain
United States
Spain
London
Italy
State Department
Whitehall
North Africa
Cyprus
America
Trieste
Greece
Turkey
Middle East
Soviet Union
Washington
Moscow
Europe
Kremlin
Palestine
Rome
Cyrenaica
Poland
Yugoslavia
Communist Party
Palmiro Togliatti
Alcide de Gasperi
Americas
Gibraltar
Suez
U.S. A
Asia
France
Scandinavia
Great Britain
Communism Defeated by Progressive Social Reforms, Not Repression
The author argues democratic nations weaken communism through social reforms and economic justice, not by negative repression. He notes Truman and Pius XII urging better democracy to meet desperate needs, urging Europe and Asia to match reforms with local conditions and allied Western democracies.
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Truman
Pius XII
Mussolini
Hitler
Communist Party
Kremlin
Asia
Latin America
Moscow
Europe
United States
Lenin
Public Mind Letters on Golf Equality and Immigration
Readers discuss public golf access for working women and the broader question of absorbing 100000 refugees. Letters by J Q P Lawrence and Richard Allbright with Marvin Dunn advocate equal freedoms and challenge views on American identity and immigration.
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Lawrence, Kas
The
Star
United States
Edith Weinberg
Paseo High School
Freddie
Henry Taucher
Richard Allbright
Marvin Dunn
States by admission dates on the American flag
A discussion of flag symbolism assigns each star to a state by the order of admission to the Union. It lists all forty eight states with their admission dates from Delaware in 1787 to Arizona in 1912.
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U. S
Delaware
Arkansas
Pennsylvania
Michigan
New Jersey
Florida
Georgia
Texas
Connecticut
Iowa
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Maryland
California
South Carolina
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Oregon
Virginia
Kansas
New York
West Virginia
North Carolina
Nevada
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Vermont
Colorado
Kentucky
North Dakota
Tennessee
South Dakota
Ohio
Montana
Louisiana
Washington
Indiana
Idaho
Mississippi
Wyoming
Illinois
Utah
Alabama
Oklahoma
Maine
New Mexico
Missouri
Arizona
Dogmenace in Kansas City prompts leash call
A Star reader objects to stray dogs in Kansas City describing multiple aggressive encounters and biting incidents. The letter urges owners to leash pets or confine them to reduce danger for pedestrians and ensure safe street walking.
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Kansas City
Yawns and stars and Missouri fish science notes
An article fragment discusses yawning as a fatigue sign and sleep's role in clearing blood wastes. It explains stars’ composition as vapors of iron and calcium seen via spectrograms. It ends with Missouri conservationists shocking fish with an electric seine and tattooing for marking.
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Earth
Jefferson City
Missouri
State Conservation Commission
Commission
Pondering the Broken Theme in Poems for Music
Verses from Poem for Music by Robert Hillyer discuss dreaming and song forgotten yet imply a transcendent final music. The tone blends caution with hope as the speaker recalls morta dreams and the Master’s smile amid eternal skies.
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Robert Hillyer
D-Day Letter and the Quiet Hero Behind It
BILL VAUGHAN recalls a wartime D-day letter from a wife in England that imagined her husband as the invasion spearhead. The tale contrasts myth with his real, noncombatant role and shows how the letter’s promises of ease never came, even as life returned to normal after Normandy.
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D-Day
Normandy
Ike Eisenhower
Columbia U
Eisenhower
England
America
Atlantic
London
Europe
Bill Vaughan
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Willuam R. Nelson
Kansas City Star Company
Kansas City Star
Associated Press
New York Post Corp
Housing Bill Crisis
Leland Stowe
By Lean Stowe
Russia
Western
Fellows
Stars OF the States
Geman Wener
North American Newspaper Alliance
Starbeams
Maas
Senkins
Walnst
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