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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
11
An advertisement from the Press-Telegram touts the speed and profitability of want ads, promising rapid returns for sellers and good value for buyers. The brief copy emphasizes efficiency and financial upside.
California launches a nationwide search for engineers draftsmen designers and architects to support a 250 million postwar building program. The personnel board will hold exams with monthly salaries from 415 to 584 dollars. The Architecture Department plans to outsource some design and specification work to private firms.
In Sacramento on August 19 a pair of homing pigeons without a home settled in a cold cream jar hoping to hatch a family. They inspected the jar on Saturday then built a nest around it over the Sabbath and into Monday and began taking turns at sitting. Nugent swears the birds are odd because they behave like roosters.
Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Charlot Strasser told the International Conference on Mental Hygiene that modern Communism favors one class and fails its aim of freedom and equality. He argued the system overemphasizes economic factors and neglects the total rights of humanity. Time will show true economic solutions require men who uphold all human rights, not dictatorship.
Faus ting S. Gomez a Philippine importer in New York on a business trip says reconstruction in his country will not go forward until the Marshall plan ends. He notes the Philippines are sound financially but face shortages of American goods due to export licensing diverting materials to Europe. He estimates recovery at about 30 percent and cites needs for machinery and improved transportation.
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