Opium Trade and Warren Delano in 1839 China
The article recounts Warren Delano and Russell and Co. navigating opium trade tensions in 1839 China. It notes privateer ships, native riots at the hong, soldiers sent by Houqua, and shifts as treaty ports opened while opium was restricted and duties imposed. It contrasts Anglo American roles and hints at broader era attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Delano
National Maritime Union
Warren Delane
F. D
Hong
W. C. Hunter
Orwell
Hunter
Gideon Nye
Fair Haven
Hog Lane
Houqua
China
Cook
Charles Elliott
Russell and Company
Russell and Co
Hawes
England
Soviet Russia
Roosevelt
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Plan to unify elections and save costs for Louisiana
The proposal aimed to hold all elections in late fall with a spring legislature session. It suggested same day voting to reduce campaigning. Louisiana process currently staggers gubernatorial midwinter and other elections. A constitutional convention could have synchronized all elections but required term adjustments.
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Cern
Louisiana
U M T Debate Delays Split Congress on Standby Law
Senator Saltonstall favors delaying universal military training while Senator Gurney pushes for early action as a standby law. President Truman notes five years of urging U M T but warns immediate enactment is unnecessary due to training camp needs and personnel. Secretary Johnson sent a bill seeking prompt action before Lodge remarks.
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Gurney
Truman
Congress
Johnson
White House
Senator Lodge
Army officer supports universal service to boost forces
Mass熟 military officer urges universal service law requiring all able youths to serve 18 months. He contends UMT would deliver six months training and six in reserve, while advocating at least 30 divisions and 3,000,000 men to counter Soviet strength. He says he will vote for UMT if no better option exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodge
Tax on excess profits dominates senate debate
The general profits tax faces delay to July 1 1950 amid pressure from Chairman George and others who fear harm to the economy if rushed. Senator Humphrey urged an early enactment with a July 1 effective date while O Mahoney Connally and allies push for an 85 percent rate on excess profits and 80 percent normal profit threshold. House action pending as George aims to halt talks and move to votes.
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George
D.G
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Truman
O’mahoney
Humphrey
D.-Minn
Senate
Finance Committee
Millikin
Colorado
O’mahoney-Connally Group
O’mahoney-Connally
House
Draft priority bills seek uniform call up for wartime medical trainees
The proposed measures aim to place about 10 000 men who trained at government expense into a four tier order for induction. First priority covers former government funded students with under 90 days service, followed by those with 90 days to 21 months, then non participants who have never served, and finally those with the least military service.
Battles in Korea See Heavy Red Push Toward Taegu and Pohang
Massive fighting zone across the eastern front with 110,000 to 120,000 Communist troops and up to three divisions en route. U N forces, including U S troops, repelled advances near Battle Mountain Waegwan and Pohang while air and naval units hit Red supply lines. Dozens of divisions and thousands of reinforcements are mobilized around Taegu Pusan and Masan with allied forces striking to halt the offensive.
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Kigye
Pohang-Taegu
Red
Pohang
Sea of Japan
Taegu
Kim Il Sung
United Nations
Battle
Haman
Masan
Battle Mountain
U. S
Pusan
15Th
MacArthur
Kusan
Uihung
Gulf Coast Braces for Hurricane Power and Possible Tidal Rise
Weather expert estimates hurricane will strike Gulf coast with severe winds and high tides. He cautions that while New Orleans may escape the full force, the Mississippi coast could suffer similar damage to the 1947 storm, with northeast quadrant winds driving dangerous tides.
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New Orleans
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Stevens
Gulf Coast
Gulf hurricane threats veer toward New Orleans area
Forecasters warned tides could be dangerously high with the Gulf hurricane moving north northwest at 10 to 12 mph. The system, near 360 miles south southeast of New Orleans, could pass west of the city or over it. A second Atlantic hurricane east of Bermuda tracked northeast at 15 mph, while Antigua and western Cuba suffered damage in prior days.
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E. A. Aime
New Orleans
Atlantic
Bermuda
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Antigua
Caribbean Sea
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
W. R. Stevens
Middle Gulf
Apalachicola
Fla
Stevens
Bureau
Gulf of
Hurricane outlook shifts as Gulf storm nears U S coast
Mexico issued a pre dawn advisory urging coastal interests from east Louisiana to extreme northwest Florida to stand by for further advisories after air reconnaissance refined the hurricane center's location. Over 500 Gulf Coast military aircraft moved inland as the system's forward progress slowed to 100 miles in 24 hours. If it reaches the mainland, it would be the first U S hurricane of 1950, with squalls along the coast and thunderstorms inland forecast for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and extreme northwest Florida.
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Mexico
Louisiana
Florida
Gulf Coast
U. S
Mississippi
Alabama
Hurricane harms Cuba with heavy losses and relief efforts
In Havana on August 30 a tropical storm that became a hurricane moved south of New Orleans. Pinar Del Rio province endured the worst damage with floods worsening crop losses. Emergency food and medicine were to be airlifted to cut off communities.
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Havana
Cuba
New Orleans
Pinar del Rio
Red Korean broadcast claims hospital strike near Pyongyang
A Pyongyang based Red Korean broadcast alleged American bombers hit a field hospital at Chunghwa south of Pyongyang with numerous casualties. It said a protest note was sent to the United Nations by Communist Foreign Minister Park Hyun Yong.
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Tokyo
Pyongyang
United Nations
Chunghwa
Park Hyun Yong
Paving Contracts Awarded In Three Parishes
The Louisiana department of highways awarded road projects totaling over 1 090 090 in Bossier Ouachita and St Martin parishes. Bossier expands 15 miles of the Minden Bossier City road to Tex Biluthic Co of New Orleans for 492 833. Ouachita contracts 13 miles of West Monroe Calhoun road to Forcum James Co of Baton Rouge for 460 710. St Martin concretes four miles of Parks Levert road to T L James and Co of Ruston for 220 280.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Department of Highways
Bossier
Ouachita
St. Martin Parishes
Minden-Bossier City
Texas
Biulithic Co
New Orleans
L A FLY U N FLAG AS LA COUNTS REVERSES VOTE
Los Angeles officials vote 3 to 2 to display the United Nations flag in the county hall plaza after a delegation from the American Association for the United Nations persuades the board. The move follows earlier objections over Russia's UN membership and marks a policy reversal.
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L. A
U.N
Los Angeles
United Nations
U. N
Russia
American Association For the United Nations
County Hall of Records
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Naktong
Changnyong
Jackie Nimble
Silverstein
North Louisiana
ATLAS
Electrolux
Gentian Atlas
Denia
Atlas Vacuum Stores, Inc
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Lake Charles
RFD
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F. M. Culver
Max L. Kulcke
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