Pentagon Faces Crucial Period In Defense Spending
A Defense Department official said the coming weeks are pivotal to decide on further curbs. Assistant Secretary Wilfred McNeil cited August defense and foreign aid spending rising above July, totaling over 3.65 billion dollars, risking a 1950s style surge unless ceilings and cuts take effect.
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Washington
Defense Department
Asst
Wilfred McNeil
U.S
McNeil
Defense
Charles Wilson
Pentagon
Wilson
Nail McElroy
Forest Products Industries reports thousands employed in 1956
The American Forest Products Industries Inc reports over 7,000 foresters employed in U S forest industries in 1956 and about 1,200 foresters working as consultants or managers for private non industrial woodlands.
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Chicago
American Forest Products Industries, Inc
United States
Cautious Public Brakes Purchases
New York dispatch notes consumer caution amid abundant goods and falling stock prices. Retail sales rise from employment and income gains, but factories slow as auto output steadies before new models. Bank loans to business shrink year over year, signaling wary industry. The Fed cites August factory output at 144 percent of the 1947-49 base, a repeat of June and July, with potential October uptick as auto plants switch to new models.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Federal Reserve Board
Jewelry owners urged to photo document gems for theft aid
Detective Sgt. A R Bolen of the New Jersey State Police urged owners of expensive jewelry to have their gems photographed and kept on file with local police to aid identification and recovery if lost or stolen. The article notes Bainbridge Ohio housed the first dental school in the world.
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Trenton
N. J
A.R. Bolen
Bolen
Bainbridge
Ohio
Battle Looming On German Post
Bonn Germany Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard emerged as the two major candidates to succeed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. They were reported squaring off for a battle over the position of vice chancellor, with the winner seen as likely to become the next chancellor. Erhard, a key planner of West German prosperity, is 41 and Strauss is the youngest cabinet member, both leveraging support from Allied leaders.
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Bonn
Germany
Franz .Josef Strauss
Ludwig Erhard
Konrad “Adenauer
Adenauer
Theodor Heuss
Christian Democratic Party
Erhard
Strauss
Franz Bluecher
Wehard
Father Of A Narcotic Addict I’d Rather See Her Dead
A man identified as Mr X told a State Senate Interim Committee on Narcotics about his daughter’s seven year battle with heroin and alcohol addiction. He described escalating acts from a first heroin shot at 16 to multiple family upheavals, an interracial marriage and a child, and questioned how the daughter funded the habit, suggesting prostitution. He urged lawmakers to find solutions to drug use among youth.
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Los Angeles
State’ Senate
Eee
Federal
Lexington
California
Fire on the Water in Connecticut River Prank
Five men received a call about a fire in the river near Waterbury Connecticut. They found pranksters had set railroad ties ablaze on the water as a misleading blaze.
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Water Waterbury, Conn
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