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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1948
Page
6
Berlin crisis looms as tensions rise toward a showdown while the first peacetime draft begins. A special session opens a campaign cycle as editor notes pushback and strategic discussions dominate coverage.
Western allies confront the Berlin blockade with firm resolve to stay and negotiate while reinforcing Germany. Truman schedules a broad draft, with 9.5 million youths to register from August 30 to September 18, selecting volunteers for rapid military buildup. The 1948 campaign heats up as third and fourth parties contest, led by Thurmond Wright ticket in the South.
Department of commerce analysts report food stores now capture 27.6 cents of every retail dollar, up from 23.5 cents in 1940, showing food outlets outperform other businesses since the war.
A compilation of quotes from Dorothy Kenyon, Sherman Minton, Winston Churchill, and Arthur W. Radford. The remarks touch on women in skill roles, communist influence in unions, Russia under the Kremlin, and wartime sacrifices.
Uneasiness over foreign affairs spurs two actions against subversive elements. A federal grand jury in New York indicted 12 Communist leaders for conspiring to overthrow the U S government and for membership in a party threatening the government. Separate charges claim foreign agents used the United Nations to mask subversive activity here.
The piece notes 38 million tons of straw wasted yearly on U.S. farms and outlines straw pulp as a substitute for wood pulp in fine papers. It highlights strawboard use in packing liners, potential growth with new baling tech, and a 8 to 20 percent income boost from straw sales, plus broader research from the Peoria lab.
Household repairs cover linoleum bulges wallboard and plaster soot cleaning. Advice includes sealing linoleum bulges with cement or roofing cement and weights drying, replacing poor wallboard, and removing grime from pastel walls with a wallpaper cleaner and checking furnace filters.
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