Government budgets rise decades beyond 1940 levels
The National Small Business Association notes sharp cost increases for major departments from 1940 to 1950. Commerce grows from about 75 million to 863 million, Interior from 1.385 million to 568.5 million, State from under 21 million to over 361 million, and Labor from 18.5 million to 257 million, highlighting dramatic expansion beyond Roosevelt’s two-term era.
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National Small Business Association
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
State Department
Department of Labor
Roosevelt
Santa Monica
Calif speaker urges end to federal extravagance and pork
A California figure warns that the American people must demand a end to colossal federal spending that threatens to bankrupt the country. The call grows for lawmakers and officials to heed voters and cut pork barrel projects.
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Calif
Americans enjoy superior living standards and buying power
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports U S workers buy seven times as much food per hour as Russians and show rising purchasing power from 1937-38 to spring 1950. It argues mass production and mass distribution lower costs and lift living standards while noting store blame for price rises is misplaced.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
U. S
Australia
BLS
Easter Sunday dinner guests in Franklin area
Franklin residents hosted Easter Sunday meals with multiple neighboring families visiting from Smithfield Logan Richmond and Preston. The church choir presented Easter numbers led by guest speaker Mark Hart with soloists Aletha Handy and Mildred Oliverson. A farewell testimonial honored Donna Rae Robinson missionary candidate from Salt Lake City's 11th ward.
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Grant Doney
Lowell van Noy
Smithfield
Sid Garrett
Logan
Roy Albiston
Richmond
Ralph Day
Layton
Bonnie Doney
Mark Hart
Preston
Aletha Handy
Mildred Oliverson
Beatrice Bennett
Myrtle Woodward
Douglas Oliverson
Reed Stockdale
Robert Gene Lowe
Donna
Rae Robinson
Salt Lake City
Donna Rae
Douglas Emerges as Top Democratic Presidential Hope
Senator Paul Douglas, a leading Democrat, tops U S. professional polls for the 1952 nomination if Truman does not run. Douglas, wary of the path to the presidency, is seen as untainted by cronyism and admired for his foreign policy stance, yet his wavering stance on the race and openness to Eisenhower as a unity candidate illustrates the complex, unsettled 1951 nominating climate.
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Sen
Paul Douglas
United Press
Douglas
Truman
Fred Vinson
Vinson
Nho
Foreign Relations Committee
New Deal
White House
General Sherman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Thonols
Automatic Price Spiral By Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan argues the price spiral worsens as labor resistances to ceilings mix with agency actions. He notes farm crop immunity to ceilings, rail freight rate hikes and rising costs ripple through the economy, harming savers while wage gains and farm prices outpace inflation.
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Mark’ Sullivan
Korea
Truman
Congress
Sullivan
Eric Johnston
Department of Agriculture
Rintér
State Commerce Commission
Grant
Interstate Commerce ‘Commission
Commission
Washington
United States
New York Herald Tribune Inc
Mapleton News Brief Sees Departures and Guests
Miss Cor and Dean Porter left Sunday for the mission home in Salt Lake City. Floyd Porter is home on furlough before sailing overseas. Mr and Mrs Howard Glover and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Delbert Wheeler of Lewiston. Phone your news to No 8.
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Cor& Dean Porter
Salt Lake City
Floyd Porter
Howard Glover
Delbert Wheeler
Lewiston
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BH. Hodges
Clarin Ashby
Cecil C .Meade, Jr
Franklin
Roo
Idaho
Harold Kingsford
Blackfoot
Dee Kingsford
Harold
Lorin Hampton
Leora Doney
Con Hampton
Ogden
Bryce Draper
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Ruth Parkinson
Joe Ingersoll
Elko, New
George Gill
Red Bank
New Jersey
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Douglas Star
New York
Herald Tribune Inc
Mark Sullivan
Oneida
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Ogden Utter
Mapleton
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