DP Skills for Useful Citizens in Displaced Camps
The author argues displaced persons in Europe possess needed skills for American farms and industry. He cites numbers of trained DPs, including farmers, agronomists, carpenters, and nurses, and criticizes keeping them in camps as costly and morally wrong. He links GOP Rep Stratton’s bill to resettle them and questions the cost to American conscience.
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Creed of Destruction What is Communism in the United States?
The piece likens communism to a religion and cites a party rule about destroying bourgeois governments. It notes Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s 1920 role, her Daily Worker column Life of the Party, and her remarks on a luncheon for the First Daytime Women’s School.
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House Debates Tax Bill as Gandhi Is Assassinated
The House opened crucial election year debate on income tax cuts with Rep. AMfartin claiming a cut is possible though less than 6.5 billion. GOP aims to override a potential veto, while Dems warn large cuts would burden debt and harm security. Separately, Mohandas K Gandhi, 78, dies in Delhi from an assassin's bullets shocking India and the world.
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Robert Doughton
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Little Man and What Now Inflation Story and Flypaper News
Rep of Camden NJ outlines inflation through a cannery worker's lens saying the $50 weekly salary barely supports his family. He voices the era's struggle with rising prices and economic insecurity. Also described is a new bacterial flypaper chemical that traps germs without killing them to reduce disease spread.
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America
Cyrus J. Waud
Camden
Waud
U. S
Bumper Baby Crop Shifts U S Economic Landscape
The article notes a baby boom since 1940 adding over 26 million births and lifting the U S population beyond 144 million. It predicts rising demand for schools housing food clothing and furnishings, plus expanded banks stores and transit as more children reach school age. It also cites potential military strength if universal training were adopted later.
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U. S
U. S&s
America
Kerosene Freezing and U S Farm Product Facts
Questions and answers cover kerosene freezing, milk as top US farm product, ten inches of snow from an inch of rain, December having the least sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, pilchard as America's top commercial fish, about 53 percent church membership, roughly 200000 miles of submarine cables, and 231 cubic inches per gallon.
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