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Pleasant news from Washington during a lean year
Washington December 24 details a year of mixed gains from a balanced budget to rising employment and housing starts. The treasury posted a substantial surplus, unemployment neared the 60,000,000 job mark, and 82,000 new houses began in November. Advances in medicine and atomic energy, plus defense talks, marked 1948 as a year of progress amid global tensions.
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