Washington Digest on Atomic War and Personal Prep
In a Washington column a speaker reflects on atomic energy and a future risk, urging UN action while detailing a Look magazine pamphlet about averting catastrophe. He recalls personal plans some would take to survive and notes a flood of requests for pamphlets that overwhelmed the National Committee on Atomic Information and its funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mtomtenerg
United Nations
Washington
Thone
Hutty
Jin
Lttle
Youc
National Committee On Atomic Information
Western Newspaper Union
White
Uncle Samn
Congress
Henry Clay
Americ ¢A
Questions on Rail Nationalization and Public Response
A newspaper bulletin notes talk of government takeover of railroads and public reaction. A railroad man questions work resumption under state control, recalling wartime experiences with subsidies and scarce draws. He predicts strikes and reservation black markets, citing a Chesapeake and Ohio appeal to refuse premium bookings and push for regulation allowing timely cancellations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Clachorn
Chesapeake and Ohio
Barbs on spelling bees and national inequities
The writer mocks spelling bee culture and regional tastelessness while noting radio commentators advantage in audiences. He cites a Twentieth Century Fund estimate that 89 percent of fur goods in Hastry’s are in New York and questions whether the rest of the country lacks quality, urging readers to vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentieth Century Fund
Hastry
New York
Colorado’s rough frontier to modern mining and irrigation
The article narrates Colorado’s gold rush era and its transformation. It follows Pike’s Peak fever drawing diverse settlers to Denver and mining camps like Cripple Creek, Leadville, and Central City. It notes harsh realities, later wealth from minerals, oil, gas, coal, and vast irrigation for agriculture, building a diverse industrial base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
America
Colorado Mountains
Farers
Texas
Opera Wrasslands
Georgia
W. Green Runnell
Pikes Peak
South Platte
Denver
Omaha
Rocky Mountain News
Herald
Cripple Creek
Leadville
Central City
Creede
Winfield Spott Stratton
H. A.W. Tabor
Ruggers
Garden of Eden
Colorado Rockies
Isao
Colorado i
Tourfish Tengsten
Florence
Wed
Oil
Las Animas
San Juan Basin
Moffat County
Utah
Wyoming
New Mexico
Comic Foreign Correspondent Anecdotes And War News Banter
A collage of anecdotes from INS and other era outlets recount bumbling generals who dodge questions, reporters who outwit editors, and veteran journalists who poke fun at politics. It includes jests about Unterstitzen and Bleuweis, Lincoln, Floyd Gibbons, Bible lore, and the role of the press in wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
INS Foreign News
J.C. Oestreicher
Johnny Floren
Unterstitzen
Blelweis
Floren
Berlin
Bleuweis
Tos
Gems of Thought on Friendship and Work Over Two Sages
A compact collection of aphorisms attributed to Euripides George Eliot Emerada and Herbert Hoover on friendship wonder and the price of leadership. The lines suggest prudence prudent action wary minds and the iron link between work and living in leading life reflections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euripides
George Eliot
Emerada
Herbert Hoover
la Rochefoucauld
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington Digest
Look Magazine
Valermom
Uncle Sam
Bankhage
Byte
Dla
Edward Emerine Wau Frateris
Oradoan
Great American
Greeley
Cold Union
South Platte Basin
Fort Collins
Sterling
Julesburg
Arkansas River
Canon City
Rocky Pord
Lamer
Kansas
San Luis Valley
Timberline
Pueblo
Pittsburgh
John
Vivian
Joh
Vivian Wax Horn
University of Denver
Brighton
Snow Mass Lake
Baggerman Peak
Glenwood Springs
Dames Watson Webb
Lincoln
Lingala
Webb
J. W. Webb
Floyd Gibbons
China
Gibbons
Floyd
Cathay Hotel
Shanghai
Bombardier Robert Turner
Lexington
Germany
Turner
Ross Neal
Lebanon
Tenn
Neal
American Bible Society
New
Rockies
Chlorado
Ercat
Katherine Lee Bates
John Barrymore
Pho Togger
Sam Mellor
Fdr
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
Prossitute
Chere
Salma
Rema
Salt Lake Desk
Broadway
Salt Lake
Peta
THE
A Ee Ed
Sarak
Portland
Ore
O'Sullivan
Comfort
Huh Lal
Vauin
LC Ceo
WNU
Sainan
Frocgne
Eputofu
Idoans
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