Congress Charts 1946 Tax Breaks and Postwar Pay Plan
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes a 2% billion cut in individual income taxes and nearly 8 billion from corporate taxes. It outlines scaled surtax reductions, exempting dependents, and suspends luxury levies while freezing Social Security payroll taxes. It also discusses reconversion wage policy amid UAW GM talks and hopes for a voluntary labor-management framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
John Q
G.i.s
Henry Ford II
United Automobile Workers
UAW
General Motors
Cio
Labor
Postwar Youth Training Policy Sparks Mixed Congressional Response
Congress hesitates after President Truman's proposal for one year of postwar military training for Americans ages 17 to 20. Some lawmakers praise open debate while opponents reject compulsory conscription. About 975,000 youths would be called annually, with 250,000 rejected for health issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
Revercomb
Rep
W. Va
Celler
Dem
N. Y
Global FAO Founded By 30 Nations At Quebec Meeting
First permanent UN body, the Food and Agriculture Organization, formed in Quebec's Chateau Frontenac with 30 signatories. It aims to share information and efforts to boost production, nutrition, and rural living standards as two thirds of the world faces ill feeding and periodic hunger. Signatories include Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Mexico, the United States, the United Kingdom, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Chateau Frontenac
Quebec
Canada
Australia
Belgium
China
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Egypt
France
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Iceland
India
Iraq
Liberia
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Panama
Peru
Union of South Africa
Philippines
England
United States
Venezuela
France Faces New Charter as Three Parties Align
France's Communists Socialists and Popular Republican Movement push to draft a new constitutional charter. PRM led by Bidault and backed by De Gaulle aims to counter radical groups while forming a western bloc with the Socialists against the Communists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Communists, Socialists
Popular Republican Movement
de Gaulle
Bidault
PRM
Education Reconversion and the Vital Core of Democracy
The piece argues for a postwar reconversion of education to sustain world freedom and democracy. It cites John Studebaker on remaking both curriculum and method, stressing geography and economics as essential core subjects for understanding global affairs, trade, and policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ican
Germany
Hitler
Mussolini
Studebaker
Bretton Woods
Postwar Auto Market Sees Large Demand Predicted
Alexander Hamilton Institute forecasts potential domestic demand for 9.84 million cars next year after population growth. End of 1946 projection shows 21.92 million autos in operation, down from 27.36 million in early 1942, with 6.77 million below normal and 2.74 million expected scrapped in 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Hamilton Institute
United States
Barbs. A film on teachers sparks debate and cautions
The piece notes they made a film about teachers for children and warns of potential consequences, hints at social discipline, and jokes about a hypothetical hair bank beyond a cornea eye bank, while covering tech, jobs, and resource issues.
Cut Flower Gladioli Care and Harvest Tips
Gladioli are grown mainly for cut flowers in a cutting garden or rows in the vegetable plot. Cut the stalk when the first flower is half open so the rest open indoors. Leave most leaves on the plant to feed next year’s blooms and protect flowers from wind and sun when cutting.
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Western Newspaper Union
Sion
Tokyo
Japan
Nippon
Zaibatsu
President Truman
Agriculture
Global Pact
U. S
Europe
Anthony J. Mullaney
Chicago
Ill
Mullaney
Hamburg
NAVY
U.S
Army Quartermaster Corps
Washington Digest
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
London
San Francisco
Educational
Cultural Council
The
North Sea
Bavarian
Dachau
Goebbels
America
John Studebaker
Amer
Bankhage
Prom Bec
B. F. Goodrich
Begoodrich
Allan Scott
WNU-5
Reader’s Digest
Pleasantville
Dr. Caldwell
Caldwell Senna
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