California water fight shows federal claims as costly bait
Opinion piece argues Harold Ickes and federal irrigation policy extract higher costs from California. It notes water rights, 160 acre limits, and rising prices of six times local costs, calling the program a phony lease. It warns of Columbia valley plans harming Oregon Washington Idaho and Montana, then contrasts with Pennsylvania election where workers rejected CIO leadership.
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California
Harold Ickes
Ickes
High Sierras
Coast Range
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Mexico
Reclamation Bureau
Washington
Congress
Central Valley
Columbia Valley Administration
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Central Valley Project
Baruch and Barred Peace: Senate Clashes Over Price Supports
The editorial notes Baruch urges a new international atomic control system with a strong mobilization plan, while warning Russia could exploit peaceful atomic material. It also covers the first week of major coal and steel strikes throttling the economy, with large layoffs, furloughs, and mounting wage losses.
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Baruch
Senate
U.S
Truman
Russia
Bernard Baruch
Packard Motor Company
Cyrus Ching
Ching
Murray
United Steelworkers
Lewis’ United Mine Workers
Philip Murray
CIO
United Nations Day Reflections and Farm Price Debate
Confidences Trygve Lie and Bernard Baruch at a dinner as Lie received the U.N. service award. The Senate approves a 90 percent parity for wheat cotton rice corn tobacco and peanuts, amid debate on high farm supports. October 24 marks United Nations Day, praised for peace efforts and progress since 1945.
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Trygve Lie
United Nations
Bernard Baruch
Lie
American Association For the United Nations
U.N
Senate
Young
N.D
Russell
Sen
Scott Lucas
Illinois
Young-Russell
Clinton Anderson
Agriculture Committee
Anderson
Abe
Red Lucas
India
Palestine
Indonesia
Border Backfire in Germany as Travel Easing Attracts West
Russians eased border travel at Frankfurt Germany to lure West Germans into the Soviet zone for Peace Day demonstrations. The tactic backfired as thousands of eastern Germans flooded into the western zone and only about 500 moved east.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Cripps and Bevin defend dollar sacrifices at Washington luncheon
British economic czar Sir Stafford Cripps and Foreign Minister Bevin met U S reporters in Washington outlining sacrifices to ease the dollar shortage. Cripps cited tobacco cuts and British austerity while Bevin joked about Cripps buying poor tobacco, as North Carolina tobacco is shunned in favor of African colonies.
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Hoey
N.C
Senate
James V. Hunt
David Bennett
Hunt
Washington
Bennett
Chicago
Harry Vaughan
Bess
Stafford Cripps
Bevin
National Press Club
Cripps
Britain
North Carolina
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Donnell
Missouri
Atlantic Defense
State Department
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Food
Food and Agricultural Branch
United Nations
Europe
India
Fewer Pedestrians Figure In 1948 Traffic Deaths
Chicago report notes 9,850 pedestrian deaths in 1948, 6 percent below 1947’s 10,450. The 1949 Accident Facts yearbook highlights that pedestrian deaths were lower than two vehicle collision deaths for the first time since classification by accident type began.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
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Mise
Wright Ee Ee
MacArthur
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
Bethlehem Steel Plants
Western Newspaper Union
Capital News
Thomas
Duke Cullum
Cullum
Oklahoma
Commodity Exchange
Agriculture Department
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture
Lard
George Parks
Fats and Oils
Parks
David Pettus
Senator Thomas
Dyke Cullum
Fats and Oils Branch
Joosen
Peter
Ben-Gay
Ben'gay
Baume Analgesique
James F. Bradsher
Arkansas
Eveready
National Carbon Company, Inc
Eaat
42Nd Street
New York 17
N.Y. F
Union Carbide and Corporation
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