Weekly Analysis: Lewis, Baruch, and Mobilization Debate
John L. Lewis fights the Taft Hartley Act as UMW miners press a voluntary pension plan and threaten leverage over a June contract renewal. Bernard Baruch urges selective service and economic mobilization to avert inflation, warning of potential wartime costs and revived wage price controls amid Cold War tensions.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Truman
UMW
Supreme Court
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
OPA
Washington
Congress
Russia
Clobb and Pharonie quarrel over war nerves and peace
Lucius Clobb frets about war as Pharonie mocks his quarrel over security and peace. Eisenhower refuses to run while a New York PR man promotes a People for Eisenhower movement to push the nomination. Maj. Gen. Parks confirms Eisenhower’s unchanged political stance.
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Pharonie
Lucius
Pawhooley County
Lucius Clobb
Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Torrey Stearns
New York
Eisenhower
General Eisenhower
Stearns
United States
Floyd L. Parks
Army Press
Parks
Arthur Sasse
Sasse
Bronx Zoo
Rumors of Truman Big Three Trip Proved False
Across Europe rumors spoke of a Truman Attlee Stalin conference in April with possible visits to Turkey and Greece. The White House denied any plans for travel or a meeting, as Cold War cloak and dagger chatter resurfaced amid reports of an American spy ring in western Germany and Austria.
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Europe
Truman
Attlee
Stalin
Turkey
Greece
White House
Radio Moscow
Russia
Germany
Austria
Sweden
Soviet
Moscow
New Hampshire Avenue
Washington
Leiter
Dupont Circle
Pipeline salvage ends as wartime project heads to junkyard
The 140 million dollar Canal pipeline built to move emergency oil from Norman wells in Northwest Canada to Alaska is being dismantled. Fifty trucks operate nightly from Johnson's Crossings on the Alaska highway to haul salvage to Midwest junk dealers.
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Norman Wells
Canada
Alaska
Midwest
United States
Johnson
Alaska Highway
Washington Digest on Cows and Capitals in the Capital
Washington essay ponders cows as ruminants and humans, linking bovine biology to economics, with notes on hot and cold cattle, Brahma and Russian breeding, and a digression on Washington mansions, underpass construction, and a final question on divorces to women.
Bundle From Heaven New Minor Planet Swims Into Ken
U S astronomers report the discovery of a strange new minor planet passing through the sun’s orbit at high speed. It measures about two miles across and is unusual for intersecting Earth’s orbit. Around 1600 similar bodies exist, but most stay far from Earth. Only four others have done so and were later lost.
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U. S
Earth
Truman Attacks Wallace as Pariah at St Patrick's Address
President Truman sharply rejected Wallace’s third party bid and hinted he should take his movement to Russia. He compared Wallace to Alcibiades and blasted Greek-Americans at a Washington dinner, accusing Wallace of demagoguery and subverting liberties.
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Henry Wallace
Truman
St. Patrick’s Day
New York
Wallace
Washington
Russia
Alcibiades
Athens
Sparta
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Western Newspaper Union
LABOR
Glenn L. Martin
Clobb
Ike
Atlantic
Washington Digest
Baukhage
Food Industries
McGraw-Hill
U.S.S.R
Connecticut Avenue
Middle America
Pat Walker
Woodland
Calif
13Th Ave
West Superior St
Duluth, Minn
King
Los Angeles
R. C. Bosworth
Canadian Pacific Railway
Union Station
St. Paul
Minn
Soni Aer
Old City Gate
St. Augustine
Ceylon
India
Maxwell House Tea
General Foods
John Burmeister
New Haven
Cincinnati
Ohio
Numaid
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