Congress Unveils 1946 Tax Cut and Postwar Pay Plans
Western Newspaper Union notes a proposed 24% billion dollar cut in individual income taxes plus nearly 3 billion shaved from corporate taxes. The plan includes $500 dependent exemptions, wartime luxury levies under review, and a fixed social security payroll tax. It also signals a postwar wage pattern as Ford and the UAW seek settlements with GM amid reconversion policy shaping.
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Senate
House
John Q
G.i.s
Henry Ford II
United Automobile Workers
UAW
General Motors
CIO
Postwar military training debate and Japan's zaibatsu dissolution
Congress weighs one year of postwar youth training as President Truman proposes. about 975000 youths may be drafted yearly with 250000 rejected for deficits. In Japan, Allies target the zaibatsu in a plan to dissolve war powers and democratize, paving political and economic liberalization.
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Truman
Congress
Revercomb
Rep
W. Va
Ees Celler
Dem
N. Y
Japan
Nippon
Zaibatsu
President Truman
Postwar Auto Market Forecast Sees Large Demand
The Alexander Hamilton Institute projects domestic demand for automobiles next year at 9,843,000 cars after population growth is accounted for. At the 1942 peak there were 27,364,000 passenger cars in operation, with 21,921,000 expected at the start of 1946 due to wartime stoppages and aging.
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Alexander Hamilton Institute
United States
Global Pact Builds FAO But France Faces New Political Realignments
The first FAO conference in Quebec signed by 30 nations aims to improve food production and nutrition amid a hunger crisis. In France, three major parties move to draft a new constitution as the PRM gains strength while Communists and Socialists align with a western bloc. Chicago fire marshal Anthony Mullaney warns cities cannot endure concentrated raids, citing Hamburg's destruction as a stark example of vulnerabilities in framed, wooden cities and the deadly heat of air raids.
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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
Communists, Socialists
Popular Republican Movement
de Gaulle
Bidault
PRM
Mullaney
Hamburg
Germany
Navy to Demobilize 800000 More by Next Year
The Navy plans to demobilize 800000 more personnel by early next year through reduced discharge scores. New rules set male officer and enlisted thresholds, with WAVE officers and personnel adjusted, while core point computations remain unchanged.
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Navy
Turkey supplies assured for holiday feasts despite smaller birds
Gs and civilians alike are assured ample turkey supplies for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Government demand prompted growers to speed production and the army quartermaster corps secured stocks since August. Most birds are dressed and stored or en route overseas.
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Army Quartermaster Corps
Truman's Missouri junket sparks playful river spitting antics
President Truman enjoys Caruthersville with a postmaster and local Legion members. He bell-pulls a locomotive bell, spits at the Mississippi, and chats with cronies while a nearby FBI alert alarms secret service. A separate Queen Mary cruise with six congressmen faced a bomb scare and tense midnight searches. Also notes Esterbrook discharges and Wayne Coy as a potential Senate hopeful.
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Washington
Truman
Mark Twain
White House
Caruthersville
Mississippi River
The
American Legion
United States
Meuse
John Snyder
Missouri-Arkansas
Harry
Secret Service
Majestic Hotel
Nearl Helm
James Reeves
Bailey 5. Brooks
Europe
Louis Rabaut
Michigan
House Appropriations Committee
Dean Gillespie
Colorado
Robert Jones
Ohio
Butler Hare
South Carolina
Thomas O'Brien
Illinois
John Kerr
North Carolina
Kerr
Rabaut
Japan
Judge Kerr
Alice on Alice on Notes of a New Yorker
A readable fragment discusses Alice and a New Yorker theme. The column blends literary gossip with cultural observations, highlighting urban life and playful contrasts between identity and artistry from a New York context.
Quotable odds and ends from a wartime social whirl
A mash of anecdotes and witticisms feature Gen George Marshall, Adolph Berle, and President Truman in casual remarks at social spots and events. The notes cover politics admiration and humor about war and public life, with sketches of Harlem, Broadway, and New York society amid a sense of postwar normalcy.
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Pentagon
Washington
George Marshall
U. S. Army
Adolph A. Berle, Jr
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Wayne Coy
Roosevelt
Washington Post
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Jimmy Ryan
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Jimmy Walker
Claire Chennault
Louisiana
London Evening Standard
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Paul Revere
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Field Marshal Haig
Kentucky
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