Move to speed wartime industry shifts as quick mobilization bill eyed
Washington reports the NSRB working on a master mobilization plan to shift industry to wartime speed at hostilities onset. A 20 title bill could authorize a labor draft, wage controls, resource allocation, and asset requisition. Approval before emergencies would be unprecedented.
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Washington
United States
National Security Resources Board
NSRB
Congress
Johnson
U. S
Hubert Howard
Munitions Board
United State
White House
Oveta Culp Hobby
Woman’s Army Corps
1951 Wheat Acreage Allotment Based on Averages
County and community committees will determine the 1951 wheat acreage allotment in Douglas County using four years of farm history from 1946 to 1949, plus tillable acres soil type and rotation practices. National allotments expected to be 70 to 75 percent of history, signaling reduced plantings. Individual farm allotments hinge on state and county announcements after national figures are set.
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George Butell
Douglas County
Butell
Secretary of Agriculture
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Kansas State P.M. A
Manhattan
Romanian military court sentences two to death in Bucharest
A Bucharest military court sentenced two men to death after a treason trial. Five others received prison terms up to sever years. The lightest sentence was given to Nicolau Po ce former chauffeur at the Vatican embassy in Bucharest. Vasile Ciobanu a former pilot for king Mihai and Nicolae Valsan a former merchant fleet official also received death sentences. Gerald FP O'Hara of Scranton and Savannah had engaged Popescu to spy for him. Bishop
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E Pragee
Czechoslovakia
Prowue
Bucharest
Romania
Iledio
Nicolau Poce
Catholic Apostolic Nunciaire
Vatican
Buchar
Vasile Ciobanu
Mihai
Nicolae Valsan
Cachealonek Pechat Bukep
Gerald FP
O'Hara
Scranton
Savannah
Popescu
Bishop
Japanese Seamen Ahead on Korea Supply Runs
Some 9 500 Japanese merchant seamen and shipowners reached bonuses for voyages to danger areas as U S government covers up to 100 percent of regular pay. They will move supplies to South Korea using LSTs landing ships tanks and small coastal craft under General MacArthur's civil transportation section.
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Tokyo
South Korea
United States
Cal. H. T. Miller
General MacArthur
Storms cause $2.5 million in Manhattan Kansas damage
Insurance adjusters report hail from Saturday's storm damaged nearly every home in Manhattan with many roofs ruined and thousands of windows broken. Kansas State College losses affect soil and plant studies as 11 greenhouse facilities were destroyed.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State College
W. F. Pickett
Two Seamen Die as Gas Fumigation Aboard Cheshire
In Birkenhead on July 5 two seamen died and 38 were ill when fumigating gas aboard the 10,000 ton British liner Cheshire in the Mersey docks. The ship, ready for a voyage to Australia with emigrants, was declared safe after investigation. First reports cited an explosion, but police findings did not confirm this.
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Birkenhead
England
Cheshire
Mersey River
Australia
Jim Stocker swears in new deputy in Steamboat Springs
In Steamboat Springs Colorado Sheriff James Stocker swore in Little Jim as a deputy at a special ceremony. A permanent file holds his fingerprint card and a 99 variety badge awarded by the sheriff.
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Jim
James
Steamboat Springs
Colorado
Stocker
Europe
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