Postwar Cars to Feature Longer Life and Better Design
Detroit officials outline plans for 1946 models with minimal body changes but major mechanical upgrades. Improvements include stronger, longer lasting motors, better shock absorbers, improved bearings, and advanced lubrication and cooling systems. Artificial rubber parts, enhanced brakes, and lighter steels promise stronger, more economical vehicles. The industry aims for quality over quick profits as production resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Changes In Our Language and the Voice of the Nation
The article argues that return of soldiers will not create a new dialect but will enrich American speech with popular terms like okay and folding money. It notes regional idioms exist but no distinct Midwest dialect, and stresses allowing American speech to evolve without foreign intrusion. Shakespeare's phrases illustrate language's long evolution.
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Mong
Midwest
Hamlet
Shakespeare
Europe
Asia
Rulers Over Thousands and Hundreds in Exodus Advice
The passage commands appointing able men who fear God and hate covetousness to govern groups of thousands down to tens. They should judge major matters, while smaller ones go to the rulers. This delegation lightens the leader’s burden and aims for the people’s peaceful return to their place.
Lubbock Morning Avalanche Merge Details
A historical note describes the consolidation of the Lubbock Morning Avalanche and Lubbock Evening Journal into a single Sunday edition. It lists publishing company, address, Associated Press wire representation, and staff roles.
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Lubbock Evening Journal
Lubbock
Avalanche Journal Publishing Co. Inc
Temas Avenue
Texas
Associated Press
Texas Daily Press
Parker F
Prouty
Pawl Panisher
Ineres
Banacer
CNAS
Ratlifp
Mensging
Nume
Death's Bright Diamonds Delivers a Locked Room Mystery Preview
The narrator recalls a tense night at Juniper Hill estate as a prowler enters his room and a struggle ends with a pistol and a mysterious adversary. The scene shifts to memory of a violent clash after World War I and hints at Nicholas Trent as a dangerous foe.
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Cass
Charley
Juniper Hill
Bureau
Bernard Spiegel
Nicholas Trent
Radio Schedule and Bond Issue Notice
KFYO programmed Tuesday includes Musical Reveille News Breakfast Club Morning Serenade Glamour Manor and other shows. The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Kansas Oklahoma and Gulf Railway to issue 4.4 million dollars of 3 percent first mortgage bonds to redeem higher rate bonds due for call on July 1.
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Odis Echols
Hollywood
Gil Martyn
Glamour Manor
Morton Downey
Everlite Rangers
John B. Kennedyt
Joe Morrison
Hop Harrigan
Terry and the Pirates
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Co
War in Europe Ends as Nation Celebrates
The column recalls May 7, when news broke that World War II in Europe was finished. Amid triumphant New York scenes and torn ticker tape, readers confront personal loss and distant family abroad during a moment of shared relief and restraint.
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QINCE
Europe
New York
Wa&s
Brandeis
Germany
Pacific
Germany Quits and a Nation in Mourning
The lead story proclaims Germany quits while an editorial cartoon condemns celebration as families grieve. The piece notes vast casualties across the war, with the speaker choosing restraint and reflection over revelry amid a world at a dangerous turning point.
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Germany
New York
Wallace plans postwar overhaul of patent laws in push for wider use of war inventions
Secretary Wallace aims to revise patent statutes to allow licensing and quicker market entry for wartime inventions. He argues current laws favor monopolies and that many innovations funded by federal support should belong to the public or be readily produced if licenses are granted to manufacturers.
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U. S
Washington
Ray Tucker
Henry Wallace
Roosevelt-Truman
Wallace
Congress
The
Iowan
Francis Biddle
Britain
News Blackout Threat to Peace Press Free Access
A Chicago Tribune column argues that press freedom is essential for postwar cooperation. It cites the San Francisco United Nations conference, news blackouts in Europe, and the need for reporters to reveal truth about Poland and Yalta. It urges immediate openness and criticizes censorship.
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Thomas L. Stokes
Cial
Ashington
Europe
San Francisco
Poland
Guardian
War Labor Board to Hold Beaumont Hearing on Steel Dispute
An Eighth regional War Labor Board tripartite panel will hear a Beaumont case May 24 involving United States Steel Products Co and United Steelworkers Local 3430 CIO. Issues include maintenance of membership, check-off, and severance pay for 249 employees. The item also notes a model for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as Isabella d Este.
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Dallas
War Labor Board
Tripartite Panel
Beaumont
United States Steel Products Company
United Steelworkers of America
CIO
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Girard
Ala
Cape
King Perures Syndicate, Inc
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Lionel Mosher
NEA Service, Inc
KFYO
Avalanche-Journal
Dick Tracy
Jack Armstrong
Lum
Abner
Texas News
Raymond Swing
Guy Lombardo
Sumner Welles
Janet Planner
Ray Henle
By Erich Brandeis
Tam Ho Killjoy
Stalin
Churchill
America
Hitler
Dunkirk
England
Channel
RAF
Luftwaffe
France
Mussolini
Roosevelt
Benito
Balkans
Berlin
Russia
Reich
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Moscow
North
Africa
Middle East
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Pake
New York Corporation
J. A. Krug
M. Red
U. B. Pat
OWI
Truman
Leonard da Vinci
Isabella D'Este
Marchioness of
Mantua
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