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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1948
Page
8
John L. Lewis and miners welfare fund trustees failed to reach an accord on $100 monthly pensions for retired miners 62 or older with 20 years service. A federal suit by Ezra van Horn seeks to halt Bridges plan as illegal, with a new meeting set for Wednesday afternoon.
President Truman joined about 200 Californians and cabinet member at a dinner honoring Rep. Clarence Lea of California who will retire after nearly 32 years in the House. Lea and his wife received Truman’s telegram wishing health and happiness for many years to come. The event was hosted by the Motion Picture Association of America the California State Chamber of Commerce and several local chambers including Long Beach Los Angeles Oakland Sacramento San Diego San Francisco San Jose and Vallejo.
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce reports postwar industrial growth in Los Angeles County far outstrips wartime expansion. Factory workers rose from 120000 in 1939 to 240000 now. Long Beach industrial employment four times prewar levels, six times when shipyard payroll included. Industry employs 39000 of 100000 Long Beach residents. $64 million invested in new plants and expansions since war. Wartime investments totaled $303 million. new factories 474 during war vs 704 since. Overall expansions and new plants rose from 1481 in wartime to 1839 since, a 24 percent gain.
President Truman will speak for about 15 minutes to the student body of Girard College in Philadelphia on May 20. He will attend the college's 100th anniversary, a school founded for fatherless boys by Stephen Girard, noted as a leading 19th century benefactor.
San Francisco April 27 new test tube evidence suggests tooth decay may be caused by small mouth microbes rather than natural acids. Dr James Nuckolls University of California says hamsters show decay-like damage from various microbes including Lactobacillus and actinomyces fungus. Next steps test human teeth for similar reactions.
The World Bank studies a joint loan to France Belgium the Netherlands Italy and Britain to fund lumbering equipment and supplies for eastern European sawmills. Eastern allies like Poland Yugoslavia and Finland would boost production and ship timber westward, cutting Western Europe’s coal and steel bottlenecks and saving up to eighty million dollars in imports.
Gen. MacArthur announced that five American business leaders have been chosen to implement Japan's new economic decentralization law aimed at breaking up Zaibatsu like family holding companies. The Army Department selected them at his request.
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