Veterans press for higher benefits and cash terminal leave
Veterans groups push broad 1948 agenda led by the American Legion VFW AMVETS and AVC seeking higher pensions subsistence allowances and liberalized insurance while backing cash terminal leave payments and on the job pay increases. They cite 15.38 billion spent in 1946 1947 and urge quick action from the 80th Congress with bills to cash terminal leave bonds and expand GI bill benefits.
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Eterans
Uncle Sam
Congress
House
Veterans’ Administration
Senate
Joseph Ball
Minn
American Legion
VFW
Amvets
Legion
AVC
VFEW
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Dwight L. Rogers
Florida
Rogers
Year of 1946 reflections and outlandish headlines
A retrospective look at 1946 blends pop culture, politics, and sports with surreal details. It notes Eleanor Roosevelt’s far left turn, UN beginnings in the Bronx, and a year of strikes, inflated prices, and public humor amid wartime memories.
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Truman
John L. Lewis
Ingrid Bergman
St Louis
United Nations
Bronx
Manhattan Island
Leo Durocher
Egg
Elliott Roosevelts
Navy
Army
Henry Wallace
Abie
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sawmill River
Roosevelts
Maryland
Hope Eternal By Gwynn Jones WIU Features
Epitaph Jones leaves a tense town for a quiet retreat where Sissy and Cyrene unveil a change, while a visit to Miss Vangeline reveals a comic twist as Jones seeks a new shelter from past heartbreaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Eternal
Gwynn Jones
Epitaph
Epitaph Jones
Ep’taph
Mr. Jones
Vangeline
Beekeepers Urged to Winter Feed Hives After Heavy Losses
Hundreds of bee hives died last season and farmers are urged to winterize and feed bees to safeguard next year’s crops. Starvation caused by insufficient stored food prompts hand feeding through winter. sugar allowances may be obtained from local ration boards.
Hampshire pigs described as bacon breed with distinct markings
Hampshire hogs of English origin once known as Thin Rind are now a fard type praised for prolificacy, good suckling, and market quality. They are medium in size with a black body and white belt at the shoulder, neat bone, wide rump, and deep plump hams. extremes in length and narrowness are discouraged.
Phenothiazine Proves New Drug Sensation
Phenothiazine, a versatile parasitic control chemical, shows strong insecticidal potential against the coddling moth when combined with arsenate. Trials across eastern and southern states report outstanding pest suppression in numerous experiments.
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Washington
Walter Shead
WNU
Washington Bureau
Eye St
N. W
Veterans’ Organizations
Mighty Pressure Groups
Air Review of 1946
Joe Louis
Stymie
Yale
Bernard Baruch
Frankie Sinatra
Indians
Ted Williams
Billy Conn
Chester Bowles
Harold Ickes
Bilbo
Boston Red Sox
Normandie
OPA
New Deal
Joe Stalin
Yalta
America
General Electric
Garden State
Elk
Russel Crouse
Lindsey and Crouse
LaGuardia
New York
Democrats
Fiorello LaGuardia
Margaret Fishback
Russia
United States
Ima Dedo
British Broadcasting Company
Pitaph Jones
Lux’ry
Mr Jones
Sissy
Cyrene
Opie
By W. J. Dryden
Louis Novelli
Macanaqua
Charles Cahill
Rumford
Halloran General Hospital
Staten Island
Veronica Saladiga
G.O.P. Senate
BRASS
Homer Ferguson
Mich
Wallace A. White Jr
Maine
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Towa
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Arthur Vandenberg
Wayland Brooks
Ill
Eugene D. Milikin
Colo
Arthur H. Vandenberg R
Vandenberg
United Nation
Georgie Wel
Madeleine
Werfel
Amimmel
Vienna
American Red Cross
Sted Cross
del Ennis
Philadelphia
Dorothy Sparkman
Pasco City
Fla
Cypress Gardens
John Powers
Model Agency
Wiedding
James L
Robinson
Hamilton Field
Calif
Goodloe
RIC
John D. Goodloe
Richmond
RFC
George FE. Allen
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Krow
Hampshires
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