Inflation Threat Dominates Week in News and Politics
The week’s top story is rising consumer prices with the price index hitting 185.5 and food and rent driving the 9 percent jump from prewar levels. Escalator clauses favor 3,000,000 workers, while price controls face Truman requests for repeal and adjustments. Western Democrats forecast Truman’s reelection prospects and debate Eisenhower’s emergence. The Korea front shows renewed Chinese anxiety over talks, and the Japan treaty conference opens amid India's boycott and Soviet propaganda.
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Wage Stabilization Board
San Francisco
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Russia
United States
India
Moscow
U.S
Peiping Demands Life Data on Citizens under Communist Rule
The article reports that in China the Communist regime requires a confession and autobiography from millions to re-educate them and establish a domestic passport. The record purportedly brands past life choices as bad and serves to control movement and employment across the country.
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China
Main Street Consumers Face Higher Prices Under New Controls
The note warns shoppers that prices will rise this month and next as new regulations allow higher manufacturer driven margins. It criticizes the pricing practices bill and says Kefauver led the fight against it, while Congress boosts agriculture funding by 120.8 million to reach 1.089 billion.
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Nain Street
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National Guard to upgrade aircraft toward jet era
Army and Air Guard units move from F-47s to modernized F-51 Mustangs with a fall field training completion target and a future goal of jet aircraft. Primaquine shows promise as a malaria treatment tested for speedier recovery of troops returning from Korea, pending further study on regional strains.
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National Guard
Continental
United States
Air Guard
Korea
Three New Officer Schools to Open Soon
The army will start three Officer candidate Schools at Fort Belvoir Virginia Fort Monmouth New Jersey and Fort Knox Kentucky to widen commissions for qualified personnel. Courses last five months and the plan aims to produce 8000 officers annually. The army also announced a new armored personnel carrier the T18E1 designed to transport infantry to front lines with protection from small arms fire and shell fragments.
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Fort Belvoir
Virginia
Signal School
Fort Monmouth
New Jersey
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Fort Knox
Kentucky
The
Army Ordnance Corps
Efficient Tractors Boost Farm Production Across America
The article argues tractors have replaced horses on most farms and detail how mechanization raised output over a decade. It notes farmers must know proper hitching, oil, lubrication, sharp tools, and correct carburetor settings to gain 10 to 20 percent efficiency and reduce fuel use and wear.
Crop Conditions Improve Across United States
The Agriculture Department reports continued improvement in crop development through June and early July with the largest total planted acreage since 1933. Winter wheat prospects rise despite harvest issues in Oklahoma and Kansas, spring wheat planting exceeds plans by about 500000 acres, and overall corn hay soybeans and sorghums show favorable growth.
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US Department of Agriculture
Department
Oklahoma
Kansas
Wheeled Feeder Boxes Aid Chickens in Coops
A novel feeder box for chicken coops features small wheels at one end and a pullout fill design to prevent escapes. Its drawers extend past the sides so they cannot be pushed out of the openings, with rear wheels on nail axles resting on the coop floor.
Factory wages buy more food than in 1929
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that the average hourly factory wage in 1929 could buy 6.4 loaves of bread, while today it buys about 10 loaves. This indicates workers can purchase more food with the same hour of labor.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Mirror Of Your Mind and Its Social Dynamics
Lawrence Gould discusses why people like you and how social psychology shapes attraction. He argues most people seek friendly feelings, and self doubt harms likability, while genuine goodwill remains the key to lasting acceptance.
Sculptor Aims 210 Foot Jesus Statue Over Hollywood
Religion sculptor Roger Noble Burnham plans to erect a 210 foot statue named The Answer on Mount Lee at 700 feet above sea level overlooking Hollywood and much of Los Angeles. Estimated cost is 250000 dollars.
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Roger Noble Burnham
Jesus
Mount Lee
Hollywood
Los Angeles
ACTH The Wonder Drug Expands Use After Conferences
ACTH once scarce for arthritis is now widely prescribed after Armour and Company supplied the drug for testing. By December 1950 a second clinical conference with 300 researchers reviewed 95 papers on ACTH’s broader applications from snake bites to shock prevention and saving premature babies.
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James W. Barton
Armour and Company
Chicago
Palmer House
Health Notes on Hearing Loss and Digestive Myths
Health notes describe how hearing loss links to speech issues and how ulcers arise from nervous stimulation causing excess stomach juices. It discusses vagus nerve cutting to halt nighttime overproduction, leg length differences causing backache, and sugar as a key pre athletic fuel with rapid absorption.
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