Army Navy unification debated as delays threaten defense
In a campaign led by Navy officials against unification, supporters press for a single defense secretary with three service heads and a rotating chief of staff to keep the navy independent. Delays risk efficiency and broader strategic aims as postwar plans and Soviet moves loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
Navy
H. Struve Hensel
Navy League
Naval
Army
Guam
Hamas
Air
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Trieste
Italy
Jugoslavia
Molotov
Russia
Tito
Yugoslavia
Tripolitania
North Africa
Britain
U. S
Profits Frenzy in Black Markets and Global Defense Push
The Chicago revenue chief cites four million dollars in delinquent taxes paid by black market operators since March including two operators at one million each. President Truman urges South American nations to join a hemispheric defense plan while warning against arms races and stressing Pan American cooperation. Alcatraz riot details reveal a clever inmate bent bars to access a gun gallery and seize weapons during a jailbreak attempt.
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Truman
Alcatraz
Chicago
Treasury
Revenue Bureau
Washington, D. C
Department of Justice
Att
Tom Clark
OPA
FBI
Congress
U. S
Chapultepec
South America
Squirrels and crabgrass haunt White House lawn musings
Washington columnist recalls a gray squirrel during a sunlit tour of the White House grounds. He shares letters from readers about quack grass and crabgrass as mulch, plus a poem from Robert L. Davis praising crabgrass mulch as garden help.
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Potomac
Sturgeon Lake
Minn
White House
Akron
Ohio
Robert L
Pop
Davis
Thowsby
Ala
Flame Cultivator Demonstrated To Hoe Weeds In Tennessee
In Covington Tennessee a flame cultivator built in TVA workshops is demonstrated by W C Harris to grow 50 acres of cotton with no hand labor. The two row model uses four burners to skim ground and costs about four cents per acre in the Mississippi delta. Demonstration marks Tennessee's first use of the device.
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Covington
Tenn
TVA
W. C. Harris
Mississippi Delta
Harold B. Jones
Mr. Jones
Tennessee
Comfortable Chair For Your Lawn Pattern 269
A newspaper note describes building a lawn or porch chair as a weekend project using three stock widths of material and simple cuts. It mentions a pattern with bill of materials, cutting diagrams, and illustrated steps, and urges readers to ask dealers about wartime waterproof glues for longer lasting outdoor furniture.
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Paul Mallon
Western Newspaper Union
Iran
Turkey
Moscow
Black Sea
Stalin
Pan-America
United Mine Workers
UMW
John L. Lewis
Paul W. Fuller
Knowland
Rep
Calif
Barkley
Dem
Lewis
Coy
Bert Burch
United Front
Palestine
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Arab League of the
Kaishek
Gouin
France
Commission
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Paris
Ruhr
Rhineland
Big Four
Sen. Vandenberg
Byrnes
Washington Digest
Backhage
WNY Service
Eye Street
N.W
Bankhage
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Mills
Get Or Sullivan Soles
America
Naat
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville
DAL
Dixie
Tobacco By-Products & Chemical Corp, Incorporated
Louisville
Kentucky
Pere
Doan
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