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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1948
Page
4
Middletown Journal announces subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery including 5, 6 day options and weekly pricing. Outside trading area and U S rates listed with advance payment required. Proverbial quote appears in the notice.
The article weighs America’s petroleum vulnerability in a future war, urging synthetic fuel plans with 2 to 3 billion dollars to yield up to 500,000 barrels daily in five years. It contrasts oil demand with possible gains in the Western Hemisphere and notes ambitions in Soviet diplomacy and Balkan policy amid the ongoing cold war.
The article argues economists mispredicted a postwar decline in urban work and mass relocation to farms. It notes war boom cities have grown as workers stay put and shift to other industries. It cites H F Burton of International Harvester estimating 50 000 New York City farmers, many commuting or farming remotely, challenging the idea that city dwellers must return to rural life.
Dr George W Crane explains will power as learned habits arising after birth. He argues will power grows by training the mind to analyze immediate and deferred outcomes and to marshal evidence before acting.
The piece argues that Truman's civil rights message is aimed at winning minority votes while lacking courage to protect the right to work. It criticizes both parties for exploiting civil rights while avoiding strong labor protections and anti-lynching legislation.
Hal Boyle reports on Marsh Babbit the hypnotist offering views on how hypnosis can influence behavior, cure pain, reduce anxiety, and affect nervous patients. He cites cases, explains limitations, and discusses risks, including crime links and reactions if a hypnotist dies, noting most people can be hypnotized but not all.
Arthur Baer foresees television reshaping radio humor with married duos facing new demands. He mocks sponsor clutter and the glare of TV, urging couples like Ellsworth and Midge to polish their act, or risk dull content and wary audiences. He warns of harder eyes than ears.
A fragmented passage muses on pessimistic thinking and daily endurance. It hints at inner struggles and a mindset that turns grim reflections into perceived daily reality.
Ambiguous health insights emerge from epee research as experts note gaps in understanding and call for further study. Researchers caution that current data may not fully explain health outcomes linked to the sport.
Erich Brande notes San Francisco newspapers brim with real estate ads from $3000 to $100,000 as housing scarcity debates persist. He observes romance and rhetoric around homes for sale while many readers feel the West Coast remains a final, disappointing frontier with Howard Street epitomizing the shortages and promises.
Reader notes a spate of local ads for glamour schools in San Francisco claiming easy success. The piece contrasts upscale promises with Howard Street hardship, warning that glittering schemes mask daily urban squalor and poverty.
The narrator longs for winter back in Connecticut after praising San Francisco. He loves the city’s facets but anticipates returning to snow, a shovel, and home.
The item notes a teacher located by the Norwegian Division of the Library of Congress. Miss Julia Ramsey of Ohio, a PhD student in political science at Georgetown University who speaks Polish and some Russian, is conducting the classes.
Miss Sitgreaves notes classes of six may include a Pole, a Greek, a Chinese, a man and an Arab. Most students are embassy or staff members. The United Nations Club is sponsored by 57 ambassadors and ministers of the United Nations represented here.
Two boys from the State Department, one Spanish speaking and one Swedish, prepared for postings abroad but were sent to South Africa instead. The academy hosts a general tea twice a year, students mostly speak English while abroad, though they converse in the language they are staying. Bedlam reigns, says Miss Sitgreaves.
A prank call claiming the editor’s death sparked a mix up as Dr. M. H. Weinstein joked he was alive calling the Journal to deny the rumor. Middletown Hospital denied death reports as editors urged caution about hearsay and a party misquote surfaced.
The New York committee on housing reports that postwar shortages persist with about 3 million families in need, despite two years of construction. Nail shortages and high prices remain. past programs failed to meet goals, while rents rise and more multifamily projects come online.
A court or medical account recalls a German doctor who reportedly tried 700 times to perform a sacrificial procedure on a difficult patient. Babbit notes uncertainty about the patient’s gender.
A jumble of quotes from Sir Hartley Shawcross Bernard Baruch Bernard Shaw and President Truman reflects on war peace and postwar economics. The dialogue cites Marshall Plan funds private investment and warnings from Sen Homer Capehart about output and mood.
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