Tax policy and political bets color postwar agenda
Western Newspaper Union notes that January tax cuts look likely as Truman faces reelection pressure. Republicans expect boosted receipts and government savings, while housing, social welfare, and education bills face revisiting. The piece reviews corporate and union reform laws and predicts bipartisan jockeying for votes ahead.
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Washington
Truman
Treasury
Congress
Senate
Taft
Morgan Horse "American as America" Farm in Vermont
Government runs the United States Morgan horse farm near Middlebury, Vermont. The program, started from Colonel Battell gifts in 1907 1908 and 1917, raises and tests about forty five horses yearly to measure gait endurance and heredity. The Morgan, famed for size endurance and gentleness, helped Vermont grow and spread west with settlers and troops.
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Department of Agriculture
America
Justin Morgan
United States
Morgan Horse Farm
Couna
Middlebury
United States Department of Agriculture
Joseph Battell
Battell
American Morgan Register
Colonel Battell
Middlebury College
Justin
Vermont
Department
Morgan
Justin I
Joel
Custer
Green Mountains
California
Mount Mansfield
Sam
Rioting in Punjab as India near independence
Riots erupt across the Punjab with Lahore and surrounding areas aflame on the eve of India's independence. Casualties reach into the hundreds as sectarian violence flares amid partition tensions and British rule contends with emergency powers.
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India
Punjab
Lahore
Indian Constituent Assembly
New Delhi
No Thumb on Scales Extends Prepackaging to Meat
The trend toward pre packaging of fresh cut meats expands across the nation with about 100 stores already using self service displays. Flexible packaging and central distribution tests in Detroit aim to cut overhead, increase turnover, and let butchers focus on skilled work while customers select preferred cuts.
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Detroit
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen’s Union
Beauty and Health Through Simple Exercises Ad
A fitness notice promotes reducing flab through seated knee raises and side knee swings as part of a booklet offering overall body toning. Readers are urged to send 25 cents for "Beauty and Health Through Simple Exercises" to Weekly Newspaper Service in New York with name address zone and booklet No 90.
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West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Unusual Cuckoo Ray Eyelid Inside the Eye
The cuckoo ray Raia circularis possesses a rare eyelid set inside the eyeball beneath the cornea. This circular lid features a large fringe and differs from typical lid placement.
Sealed Power Rings Offer Oil Savings For Engines
When a car truck or tractor engine smokes and burns oil it wastes power. Sealed Power Piston Rings claim to end the waste save oil and restore power with a ring set designed for any engine make model or cylinder wear condition. See your Sealed Power Franchise Dealer.
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Western Newspaper Union
Billy Mitchell
National Science Foundation
Taft-Ellender-Wagner
Educa
Morgan Horse
Baukhage
Washington, D. C
Pravda
Communist Party
Moscow
Thomas Edison
Volga
CIO Maritime Union
Green Mountain
Bankhage
IRON
Britannia
Clement Attlee
Islands
Winston Churchill
Britain
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Eden
Conservative Party
House
Cooperative Community Enterprise
Greenbelt
B. Walter Riehlman
Rep
Kremlin
French Ministry of Reconstruction
France
Maureen
Michael
Michele Vosco
Flushing
Mother
Sealed Power Cor
Muskegon, Mich
Yodora
KKesson @ Robbins, Inc
Bridgeport
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