Small Woodlots Hold Key To Future Timber Supply
Washington reports that private woodlots, about three quarters of US timber, must be better managed to secure future supplies. Government and industry fund training camps in Florida and other states teaching youth tree farming, fire control, and timber marketing to create future Tree Farmers of America and boost industry growth.
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Washington
R. E. McArdle
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
United States of America
U.S
Ike
Florida
Farmers of America
FFA
Camp O'Leno
Jacksonville
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
Virginia
Southern Pulpwood Association
Southern Pulp and Paper Industry
Southern Pine Association
Tree Farmers of America
America
Congress Battles Truman Proposals in Extra Session
The 80th Congress battles President Truman during an extra session with a cool reception. Republicans push obstruction while Dixie Democrats threaten a filibuster over the anti-poll tax bill. Truman’s package includes excess profits tax, price controls, and housing reform. Agriculture projects an 8 percent cut in 1949 wheat acreage and details soil, cattle, and yield targets to balance production with conservation.
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Truman
Congress
Deflcit
GOP
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Secrecy lifted on postwar atomic tests report
The fourth semi annual report of the Atomic Energy Commission and President Truman’s Statement reveal limited disclosure on new atomic weapons. Tests at Eniwetok under Operation Sandstone succeeded with three bombs while research expands into medicine agriculture metallurgy and industry. Radioactive materials reach 229 institutions and firms for experimentation.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Truman
Eniwetok Island
Congress
Eniwetok
Bikini
Record-High U S Consumer Price Index Signals Ongoing Inflation
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the consumer price index for urban shoppers at 171.7 percent of the 1935 39 average, with food prices at record highs. Wholesale prices also hit an all time peak for the week ended July 1, and the index is up 93 percent from a year ago, 28.8 percent above June 1946, and 74.1 percent above August 1939 levels.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Precautionary Economic Security Plans Grow Nationwide
The 1948 Research Council for Economic Security estimates Americans will spend about 15 billion dollars on security for themselves and families. The study covers private and government plans addressing death, old age, accident, sickness, disability, unemployment, and related conditions, with Northeastern, Midwestern, and Pacific coast states showing the largest protection.
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Research Council For Economic Security
Northeastern
Middlewestern
Pacific Coast
Old Pals Welcome Draftees in Eight Week Training Plan
Gen Omar Bradley orders removal of petty annoyances as the peacetime draft begins. Training centers at Fort Knox Fort Campbell Camp Breckenridge Fort Riley Camp Chaffee Camp Pickett Fort Ord Fort Jackson Fort Dix will host eight week courses with salaries advanced to new draftees. About half of draftees may be sent overseas to Korea Japan Germany Alaska Canal Zone Hawaii or Caribbean defense areas.
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Army
Omar Bradley
Fort Knox
Camp Breckenridge
Fort Riley
Kans
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Camp Pickett
Fort Ord
Calif
Fort Jackson
Fort Dix
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Korea
Japan
Germany
Alaska
Canal Zone
Hawaii
Caribbean Defense Area
It Might Have Been If World War II Never Happened
The article speculates that without World War II and the Savoy abdication, Victor Emmanuel, third in line, could have faced a throne fate. It notes the poised, blond prince now in Geneva, Switzerland as the least unhappy with recent changes.
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Victor Emmanuel
House of Savoy
Humbert
Italy
Geneva
Switzerland
Berlin Crisis Deepens As Four-Power Talks Resume
Germany remains a volatile issue in the Berlin stalemate as four-power talks are rumored to restart to address the crisis and broader European tensions. U.S. and British airlift continue at about 4500 tons daily while streets see protests over currency reform. Berlin’s socialist mayor Louise Schroeder defies Moscow by resisting orders to remove an anti-communist deputy police chief.
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Germany
Berlin
U. S
Britain
France
Louise Schroeder
Russia
Headliners in Annapolis and Elsewhere
An 18 year old plebe at the U S naval academy John Paul Jones of Piqua Ohio took his oath alone and amid ceremony. Joseph Neal 48 survived a sewer trench collapse for 20 minutes his nose exposed by a coworker before firemen pulled him free. In Salina Oklahoma E W Floyd 40 brother of Pretty Boy Floyd won a sheriff race in a heated contest. In Charlestown farmer Eben Trussell returned home to find his new car damaged by a bull calf leaping at its reflection then vet stitched the hood and a mechanic repaired the car.
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U.S. Naval Academy
John Paul Jones
Piqua
Ohio
Fort Wayne
Joseph Neal
Neal
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Okla
E. W. Floyd
Charles
Pretty Boy
The Big Town at Sunset and Broadway Vignettes
A collage of late 1940s city life with stars like James Farley and Henry Fonda in casual scenes, a note on Binghams Canyon outlaw law, Marion Davies’ Santa Monica beach mansion run by Joe Crown, and a Midtown gossip thread. It spans theater, cinema, and social quips, mixing satire with brief anecdotes about ads, clubs, and public affairs.
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James Farley
Morton Downey
Sean
John Payne
The
Magic Lanterns
Indy
Henry Fonda
Mr. Roberts
Times Square
Marion Davies
Santa Monica
Joe Crown
Swanky Bel Air
Beverly Hills
George M. Cohan
Broadway
Cohan
Elsa
House of Commons
London
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