Soviets Open Peace Talks While Rail Strikes Halted
Western readers learn that Soviet officials signaled willingness to discuss differences with the United States while the three railroad unions paused their looming strike after President Truman used wartime powers to seize the rail network and a federal court issued an eight day restraining order. John L. Lewis quietly influenced the outcome.
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Labor unions face restraints as strikes threaten wider labor unrest
Eastern hotspot rail union leaders warned that defying Judge Goldsborough's restraining order on a soft coal strike could bring heavy fines and jail, signaling a government tactic to delay strikes. The piece notes rising anti Truman sentiment in the South over civil rights plans and fears Dixie Democrats may nominate their own candidate in 1948, pushing toward 1952.
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Cigarette Consumption Hits All-Time U S High in 1947
The May edition of Business Comment from Northern Trust reports U S cigarette output at 370 billion in 1947, a 5 percent rise from 1946. Per capita consumption climbed from 1 66 in 1914 to 2 400 in 1947, continuing an upward trend since before World War I.
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Business Comment
Bulletin of Northern Trust Company
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Ohio Primary Recounts Put Taft Ahead in Delegates
In Ohio the tally gave Senator Robert Taft 44 delegates and Harold Stassen 9. Stassen claimed a win only if he captured most of the disputed 23 delegates, but Taft dominated the bloc with a strong local favorite son support. The GOP race still centers on Taft and Dewey pressuring Stassen, with Vandenberg gaining.
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Newsweek Magazine
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New Yorker
Truman's Farm Issue Shapes Campaign Message
President Truman pivots to farm policy as the core of his coming campaign. He plans a congress message seeking an adequate appropriation to sustain soil conservation and long range agricultural legislation, echoing Clinton Anderson’s push to place Republicans on the spot. Barkley notes the budget asked 300 million for soil conservation, cut to 225 million by Congress.
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Alben Barkley
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Wheat crop forecast: U S to produce third largest ever
The Department of Agriculture kept its forecast that the United States will produce the third largest wheat crop in history this year, despite lowering the winter wheat estimate by 14.5 million bushels. May 1 prospects total 1.117 billion bushels with a 845 million bushel fall-sown winter crop and an approximate 272 million bushels from spring wheat.
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Great Plains
Plant life appetites shown by radioactive isotopes
Atomic scientists report that plants vary in appetite for phosphate fertilizer. Tests using radioactive isotopes of phosphorus reveal which crops nibble or fully utilize phosphate, helping farmers judge fertilizer investments.
Washington Digest: Contradictions Mark Campaign Currents
Washington readers see a web of campaign tensions as Stassen gains support, Taft loyalists vent frustration, and Dewey’s fate shifts amid rising Vandenberg talk. The piece traces early candor influencing future races, and notes Monroe and Truman era echoes in foreign policy rhetoric.
Plymouth Colony Graves Concealed Losses With Grain
Survivors of the Plymouth colony’s first winter lost half their number. In spring they leveled the graves and sowed grain over them to hide the deaths from Native people.
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Plymouth Colony
America
Invention of the Telephone Confirmed in 1875
The text notes that Alexander Graham Bell verified the principle of the electric speaking telephone at Boston on June 2, 1875, a date commonly accepted as the invention moment. The reference anchors the historic claim to a specific event and place.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Boston
Alexander Graham Bell Opens Deaf School in Boston
Scottish educator Alexander Graham Bell arrived in the United States via Canada in 1871 and opened a Boston school for the deaf and others with defective speech in 1872.
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Alexander Graham Bell
United States
Canada
Boston
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