Congress Fights Truman Proposals and Farm Goals Set
The extra session opens amid bitter clashes as President Truman proposes an anti inflation program and GOP leaders threaten obstruction. Agriculture urges an 8 percent wheat acreage cut for 1949, with a goal of about 1.1 billion bushels, plus state and national targets for beef cattle herds and soil conservation measures.
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Congress
Truman
GOP
Senate
Dixie Democrats
Mr. Truman
Department of Agriculture
A Bombs New Force Shrouded Secrecy Lifts Slightly
The fourth semi annual Atomic Energy Commission report and President Truman’s statement reveal limited openness on postwar atomic work. They note three bombs tested at Eniwetok in the spring “Operation Sandstone” and focus on generation of nuclear explosions along with advances in medicine agriculture metallurgy and other fields.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Truman
Eniwetok Island
Congress
Eniwetok
Bikini
Living Costs Reach New Peak Amid Surging Prices
The consumer price index, formerly the cost of living index, hits an all time high on June 15 with food costs breaking records. Retail prices reflect wholesale increases, while the index runs 9.3 percent above last year and well above prewar levels, signaling ongoing inflation.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
PRECARIOUS PEACH Americans Seek Economic Security
The Research Council for Economic Security estimates Americans will spend about 15 billion dollars in 1948 on measures for family security arising from death old age accident sickness disability unemployment and related conditions. Northeastern middlewestern and Pacific coast states have the largest protection totals and per capita payments.
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Research Council For Economic Security
Northeastern
Middlewestern
Pacific Coast
Draftees Tweak Training to Ease First Peace Time Draft
The army plans to reduce petty annoyances for draftees under Gen Omar Bradley to welcome recruits as old friends. Eight training centers including Fort Knox Camp Breckenridge Fort Riley Camp Chaffee Camp Pickett Fort Ord Fort Jackson Fort Dix will host an eight week course with $5 advance pay and chaplain orientation. Half the draftees may see overseas duty in Korea Japan Germany Alaska the Canal Zone Hawaii or Caribbean defense areas. News also covers Berlin crisis rumors of four power talks and the Allied airlift delivering thousands of tons of supplies to the besieged city amid currency shifts and street protests.
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Fort Riley
Kans
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Ark
Camp Pickett
Fort Ord
Calif
Fort Jackson
S. C
Fort Dix
N. J
Korea
Japan
Germany
Alaska
Canal Zone
Hawaii
Caribbean Defense Area
Small Woodlots Hold Key To Future Timber Supply
Washington story notes that three quarters of U S timber is privately owned and mostly in small woodlots. Programs by government and industry train youth in forestry to convert woodlands into profitable farms, with Florida leading camps and Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia expanding efforts.
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Washington
R. E. McArdle
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Crossett Lumber Company
Arkansas
R. R. Reynolds
Forestry Service
Reynolds
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
Virginia
FFA
Southern Pulpwood Association
Southern Pulp and Paper Industry
Southern Pine Association
Tree Farmers of America
America
Trammel Green
Florida Forest Service
Headlines From Across the Nation In Brief
An 18 year old plebe at the U S naval academy John Paul Jones of Piqua Ohio takes his oath at Annapolis. In Fort Wayne Joseph Neal 48 survives 20 minutes buried in a sewer trench collapse as a fellow worker reveals his nose. In Sallisaw Oklahoma E W Floyd 40 elected sheriff after bitter campaign. In Charlestown Eben Trussell drives new car home a bull calf shatters windshield a vet stitches the bull and a mechanic repairs the car.
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U.S. Naval Academy
John Paul Jones
Piqua
Ohio
Fort Wayne
Joseph Neal
Neal
Sallisaw
Okla
E. W. Floyd
Charles
Pretty Boy) Floyd
Charlestown
Eben Trussell
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The page lists playful trivia about Rome applause the Grand Canyon length the equator’s South American cross the size of a heart and whether trout migrate or a wolverine is a small wolf.
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No, the wolverine is a big weasel.
The text asserts that the wolverine is a large weasel and contrasts it with other statements. It also includes various unrelated fragments about methods, distance, and anatomy.
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