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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1949
Page
2
A Twentieth Century Fund report cited in The Sunday Register argues that restoring 1850 living standards would require a massive, unsustainable workforce and would slash food, clothing, transport, and medicine. It warns that shorter modern workweeks would demand even more workers to maintain output, implying dire losses if progress stopped.
Editorial critiques President Truman for praising aid that favors handouts over self sufficiency. It argues FAO plans to fund a global food clearing house are misdirected and would erode initiative, while home farm subsidies distort prices and harm low income nutrition.
In a reflective reminiscence, Bug Dust recalls joining a social fraternity at West Virginia University by mistake, enduring hazing and class biases. The piece notes postwar shifts from interfraternity talks in Washington toward ending religious and racial bars, while warning prejudice lingers.
HAL BOYLE records a chat with Col Amos Frothing U.S.A. about future wars and old military mistakes. The veteran predicts widespread tension with Russia and other nations, questions arming Germany as a buffer, and jokes about a home testing of an atomic bomb model. The tone mixes nostalgia with cautious warning for a volatile era.
James Marlow surveys early television and radio growth from 1920s to postwar expansion. He notes FCC licensing, color television debates, and the spread of stations both commercial and amateur alongside wartime halts and postwar relays.
Jackie Gleason, famed comedian, emerges as rising TV star in The Life of Riley project after dynamic New York nights. Born Brooklyn, 33, he started as emcee at a Brooklyn theater and moved into film with roles in gangster and musical productions. He, his wife, and two daughters reside modestly in Los Angeles Wilshire District.
Kathryn Corporal Eugene OB Cooper has returned to his Pennsylvania base after a 90 day furlough. he served with a military police unit in Berlin after basic at Fort Bliss. Laurel Smokeless Coal Co. earlier employed him. Whitesville club outlined park preparations and a spring summer use plan at a Thanksgiving dinner noted by Mrs Small of Danese.
Aboard the movement by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and Navy Secretary Francis Matthews, Admiral Forrest Sherman moves to boost anti submarine funding. He warns that the Soviet type 21 Schnorkel submarine could erode US sea control within six years, risking Western Europe and allied shipping unless tech and forces are intensified.
Western Allies monitor Ulrich Noack a 50 year old German history professor at Würzburg University as he unites disparate groups in support of a neutral, demilitarized Germany. His polemic for all German peace congresses and calling for withdrawal of occupation troops attracts Communists Nazis pacifists and industrialists across zones. He argues for all German unity and a Western backed peace treaty despite Soviet influence and East German opposition.
Washington reports the annual battle for federal funds is at its peak as agencies lobby intensely before Congress. Budget Bureau examiners, many ex-agency officials, audit spending and push budget cuts, with Pace guiding the final recommendations before President Truman approves the allocations portion for the next fiscal year ending June 30, 1950.
Ferdinand Schevill’s literary guide surveys Cosimo, Lorenzo, and the Medici era with Florence as the stage. It traces bankers, churchmen, patrons, and rulers amid Popes, Sforzas, and Turks while offering a broad overview that sometimes trades depth for breadth. The author argues the Florentines would have shaped culture, yet his treatment remains somewhat superficial and pedantic.
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