Beckley News Editorial Calls for Industrial Growth Push
Editorial notes Beckley’s growing appeal to new industries as the chamber of commerce under G A Bentley pushes a green plants strategy. It cites Truman’s dispersal doctrine, prospects of 80 percent odds for a new plant, and potential subsidies to spur mining and manufacturing while weighing price and wage controls.
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Chamber of Commerce
G. A. Bentley
Beckley
Truman
Bentley
Register
Seizure Power Debated in Wages and Prices Fight
In the wage and price turmoil the new control law spurred a clash over presidential seizure of private property. Congress both extended and limited these powers, signaling a shift away from rapid requisition of real property.
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Congress
Dramatic Cold Snap Bans New Construction Through Oct 1
The freeze targets new factories offices schools hospitals and public buildings while allowing limited defense steel copper and aluminum use. Home building remains largely protected though luxury homes may face limits. The housing industry argues a million homes in 1952 would consume small shares of steel copper and aluminum.
Defense spending drives growth and higher production in week
Richard Fiske notes brisk business and rising industrial output as Congress backs a record peacetime defense budget of 56 billion dollars. Defense programs expand while OPS price controls shift. Retailers expect stronger demand despite tax bites and potential price rises, with consumer incomes at a new high and continued government spending.
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Richard Fiske
New York
Congressional
Far East
House
Senate
Defense Department
Fali
Ampetus
Commerce Department
Wes
Production and freight activity dip after steel gains
The Associated Press reports slight production declines across sectors last week while steel output held at 101.1 percent of capacity, marking the 23rd straight week above 100. Carloadings slipped modestly and crude oil output fell as automobile production dropped to 97 units from 117 thousand the prior week.
Maine’s Rural Resilience and a Painter Crew Accident
A Maine farmer, rarely leaving his Bangor area, narrowly avoided a fire engine and was struck by a following truck carrying drunken painters. The farmer quips he heard the siren but blamed the painters for the collision, highlighting local travel habits and a humorous incident from 1851.
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Maine
New England
Bangor
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Bus Andy the pioneer of Minnesota bus service
Hal Boyle recounts Andrew G. Anderson, known as Bus Andy, who helped shape American bus travel starting in 1914. Born in Sweden, he arrived with little, built a Hupmobile route between Hibbing and Alice, then expanded under the Northland Greyhound era, eventually running about 100 buses across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Hal Boyle
Hibbing
Minn
United States
America
Andy
Andrew G. Anderson
Sweden
Charles Wenberg
Anderson
Hibhing
Alice
Wenbeg
Bus Andy
Andis Pparta Land
Gresinound Bus Company
Northland Greyhound System
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Russians keep tight line to people as West nudges more
Washington diary notes that Soviet outlets are state controlled and jam Western broadcasts. Eddy Gilmore warned the West has little chance to sway Soviet public opinion. The piece recalls Custine and Smith's views, and cites a Kremlin reaction to Truman's peace note as evidence of propagandaechoes.
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Washington
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Moscow
Soviet Union
State Department
Voice of America
Russia
Marquis de Custine
Phyllis Penn Kohler
Walter Bedell Smith
Sever
Central Intelligence Agency
Smith
Truman
Fiction Hits Sales Skids
AP Arts Editor W. G. Rogers reports that fiction sales are down as publishers note reduced demand for spring titles. Among 24 New York publishers, 16 fiction and 31 nonfiction titles appear among their top sellers, with fiction at 14 percent of 1925 titles rising to 19 percent in early 1950.
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W. G. Rogers
AP Arts
New York
Publishers’ Weekly
Thomas F. Stafford
Etee Tr
Associated Press
Il AP
Representatives
Brooks & Finley, Inc
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Cleveland
Atlantis
Los Angeles
de Angeles
Coasey
West Virginia
Backey Newspapers
Birth of Mankynde, a historic voyage through birth myths
ALTON BLAKESLEE reviews Harvey Graham’s Eternal Eve, a 663 page survey tracing birth from myths to modern obstetrics. The book covers ancient midwives, sex prediction myths, delivery methods, Cesarean history, and medical advances from Semmelweis to the 20th century, with future puzzles left open.
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Alton Blakeslee
Harvey Graham
Doubleday
Graham
Mary Toft
England
Ignaz Semmehreis
Nabor
Markynde
Stalin argues direct or zigzag path in Korea crisis
In a simulated Stalin address to the Politburo, Alsop presents Stalin arguing that imperialist threats require a choice between a direct frontal war and a zigzag strategy. He highlights liquidating enemies, defending the Soviet Union, and disuniting the imperialist alliance, while weighing risks of war versus peace.
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Washington
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Lenin
Hitler
Politburo
Korea
Soviet Republic
United States
Soviet Union
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Mao Tse-tung
Molotov
Wacesaw
Kremlin
Eisen
China
NATO aid underpins free nations in Cold War drive
United States military assistance to free nations reached 1.6 million tons by June 30, 1951, with NATO nations receiving 973,000 tons. Aircraft, ships, tanks, artillery, and vehicles moved to bolster Europe, as President Truman seeks further funding for Mutual Security. NATO’s purpose is to strengthen Western Europe and North America, with Marshall and Acheson stressing partnership and deterrence against communism.
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H.D. Crawford
Washington
United States
Truman
Congress
Europe
NATO
Eee
Free World
Western Europe
North America
George , Marshall
U. S
Marshall
Dean Acherson
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Dwight D. Eisen-nower
NATO Supreme Commander In
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