Price controls debate on wartime mobilization grows
Congress and the Senate vote to grant the president broad standby powers to manage the economy amid rising costs. Prices climb as wage controls spark contention between House and Senate plans, with election year hesitancy over action. Families face shrinking purchasing power as Korea and mobilization strain households.
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Korea
Wall Street
America
Senate
Congress
House
Be dell Smith to lead CIA amid Korea intelligence woes
Bedell Smith, former Eisenhower chief of staff and Normandy planner, is named successor to Admiral Hillenkoeter as head of the intelligence agency. The change follows sharp criticism of the prior service for failing to warn of pending trouble in Korea and calls to root out any habit of dismissing intelligence as mere wolf cries. Deut. 28:10 is cited in the closing biblical verse.
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Korea
Admiral Hillenkoeter
Walter Bedell Smith
Moscow
Kvestia
Japan
Central Intelligence Agency
Smith
Bedell
Beedle
Senator McCarthy
Harry Truman
Senator McKellar
Baltimore
Tennessee
Fish Industry Urged To Consolidate For Prosperity
Roger Babson urges Gloucester and Cape Ann fish merchants to merge operations, establish a single large processing plant, and standardize sales to lift national fish consumption. He argues the ocean is free, fish are a complete food, and with capital and U.N. supervision the industry could prosper, while government support favors agriculture.
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Robert Steel
Jong-ran
Bromfield
United Nations
Gloucester
Mass
Report From Around Town humorous travel tales abroad
Report from around town highlights Ramona Biaschke Mary Biaschke and Mary Crowley home from Europe with anecdotes rivaling Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. A light column notes the Kuhns of Whitehall receiving a $10 rent hike notice from Florence Triplett in Hot Springs Arkansas. It jokes Faith is in South Dakota while listing Hope North Dakota Charity and Paradise Montana as waiting names.
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Europe
Ramona
Mary Biaschke
Mary Crowley
C. Andrew Kuhn
Whitehall
Florence Triplett
Hot Springs
Ark
Faith
South Dakota
Hope
N. D
Hell
Norway
Paradise
Mont
Capitol Dome Sentiment Rising For Bingo's Return
Madison Wis There is broad support among Wisconsin voters for relegalizing non commercial bingo under the Minnesota form. The Wisconsin American Legion backed a resolution urging the legislature to adopt the Minnesota plan with careful safeguards and non profit operation. Even so, experts warn that any change requires constitutional change and unlikely to occur before 1954.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Department of the American Legion
Green Bay
Minnesota
Wynguard
Legion
Veterans’ Clubs
Veterans’ Organization
The
American Legion
Legion Command
Best Vacations Spent At Home with Cows and Canoes
Drew Pearson recalls a Washington family vacation spent at home with cows on a Maryland farm and a canoe trip along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. He jokes about public attention, names political figures as bulls, and notes the Korea war hangover while enjoying simple rural life and a fifty cent canal outing.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Pearson
Taft
Maine
Korea
Truman
Mrs. P
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Ohio River
Mississippi
Seneca
Jorpet
Coorragh
Neil Senate
How to figure social security pensions in plain terms
An editorial explains the new social security pension formula with a worked example. It walks through quarters of coverage, changing tax limits, and how average earnings determine monthly benefits as reforms take effect from 1951 onward. It uses a hypothetical Jones to illustrate five specific steps and outcomes.
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Washington
Marlow
Jones
Plo Vrata
Crick
Scouts Exhibit Secures Second At Wisconsin State Fair
Scout Executive B W Ingli announced Gate way Area council’s exhibit placed second among 14 state council exhibits at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee. Also noted are county farm crop exhibit results and local visits, with former local figures mentioned in passing.
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B. W. Ingli
Gateway Area Concil
Milwaukee
la Crosse County
C. Mumson
Los Angeles
la Crosse
Patricia
Dorothy Toland
Leigh Toland
Camp Osaka
Trout Lake
Wisconsin
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Roger Babson
Giou
Cestér
Cape Ann
Ux Crosse Tribune
W. T. Burgess
R. L. Bangsberg
Kuhns
John Wyngaard
Capitol Dome
Bingo
Senator Byrd
Virginia
Congressman Jacobs
Indiana
James Marlow
the Nation Today
la Crosse Tribune
Margaret R. Brown
Women’s
Democratic State Central Committee
Charles Weigent
Lake Charles
D. C. Dewey
Grand Rapids
Lia Crosse
J. L. Rose
People's Mausoleum Co. of
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