Postwar tensions and GM strike shape 1946 auto output
Western Newspaper Union reports a southern coalition aims to loosen OPA controls while seeking a one year extension. Goering defends Nazi leadership at Nurnberg. Iran tensions and Iran oil pressure cited between US Britain and Russia. GM and CIO UAW end 113 day strike with 18.5 cent wage rise and gains, paving limited output. broader industry still faces wage and price friction and pending settlements.
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CIO- United Automobile Workers
General Motors
UAW
R. J. Thomas
G. M
Ford
Chrysler
Willys-Overland
Studebaker
Nash
Hudson
General Electric
CIO - United Electrical Workers
International Harvester
Cio-Farm
Anderson
General Motors’ Electrical Division
CIO Union
Pauley Withdraws Navy Nomination Amid Political Pressure
Big Ed Pauley, California oilman and former Democratic treasurer, conceded withdrawal of his undersecretary of the navy nomination after Senate opposition and Ickes testimony about campaign fundraising. Senate Naval Affairs Committee praised his integrity. Separately, Congress weighs extending the selective service act beyond May 15 as plans outline 1.5 million officers and men by 1946 and 1 million by 1947 amid world tensions and UNO uncertainty. Eisenhower says conscription spurs voluntary enlistments. five months saw 600,017 volunteers with 67.07 percent WWII veterans.
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Ed Pauley
Truman
California
Pauley
Navy
Ickes
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
War Department
UNO
Eisenhower
Pearl Harbor
Hoover urges South American aid to save cereals for Europe and Asia
Former President Hoover as honorary chairman of the famine committee urged North and South American nations to conserve cereals for starving regions. He projected the western hemisphere could save about 7 million tons in 120 days to meet a 9 million ton need, with total yearly requirements at 21 million tons. Milk consumption reached a record 442 pounds per person in 1945, about 206 quarts per year.
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Herbert Hoover
Europe
Asia
Hoover
North
South America
Western Hemisphere
Washington Digesters Bright Young Fossil Hunter
18 year old Jim Gibson, a Washington state farm boy, earned a trip to Washington DC as a Science Talent finalist. He collects fossils, found a 20,000 year old fossil rock plus a 8 million year old shark tooth from Smithsonian founder Dr. Foshag. He met Lise Meitner and toured the Capitol, while officials note other scholars and debates over McKellar and Senate prez pro tempore prospects. The piece also notes FCC privacy worries over a new telephone recorder.
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WNY Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Ellensburg
Wash
Jim Gibson
Zoo
White House
Congress
Lise Neitner
Jim
Science Service of Washington
Westinghouse Electric Company
Ing Jim Gibson
Science Talent Institute
State of
Washington
Jimy
Lise
Bureau of Standards
Science Service
Watson Davis
Washington Zoo
Mr. Davis
World Hog Numbers Sink Sharply in Early 1946
Global hog totals fall by 5 million head to 244 million at the start of 1946 as reductions in central Europe Canada and Argentina outpace modest gains in the United States France and the Soviet Union. With grain shortages, further declines outside the U S are forecast despite strong meat demand. Canadian hogs drop 1.8 million head while U S numbers rise 4 percent, recovering part of 1945 losses.
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Europe
Canada
Argentina
U. S
France
Soviet Union
Barbs on butter limits and rising cream in America
Bankhage argues price controls fail as cream rises beyond caps and the black market parallels Prohibition bootleggers. USC President Kimball notes shifting American interest from enthusiasm to indifference amid fashion obsessions with nylon stockings and polyamide products.
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America
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Rep
N. J
Hartley
Crawford
Mich
Smith
Dem
Barden
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Camp
Roe
Jenkins
Ohio
Buffet
Neb
Pace
Sundstrom
Wherry
Senate
Hermann Brags
Hermann Goering
Nuernberg
Reich
Hitler
National Socialist Party
Germany
Goering
Kurt von Schleicher
Curt von Hammerstein-Equord
von Schleicher
Russia
Iran
Turkey
Iraq
State Department
Moscow
Bevin
Great Britain
Stalin
Molotov
Reds
LABOR
Edwin W. Pauley
Harold
Washington Digest
Capitol Hill
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
McKellar
FCC
James Gibson
Home Furnishings & Appli
Don Lee
E. Collins St
Midland
Wichita Falls
Texas
U.S
Huleman & Company
Hulman & Company
Terre Haute, Indiane
Scott
Scotts Sear
Bankhage
USC
Lindsay Kimball
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
WNU
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