Trainees Morals Guarded In UMIT Youth Training System
Washington column reviews universal military training aims with UMIT benefits for trainees. It notes six months of initial training mixing education and military skills, allowances for dependents, and civil relief benefits. It highlights counseling, reduced profanity, moral instruction, and weekly citizenship lessons at Fort Knox.
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Washington
UMIT
Army Information Digest
UMT
Fort Knox Experimental Unit
Fort Knox
National Security Training Corps
Armed Services
National Guard
Enlisted Reserve Corps
UMT Experimental Unit
London Meet Dissolves as Inflation Bill Fails
The London foreign ministers conference ends without accord on reparations or Russia. U S Great Britain and France may begin talks on unifying western Germany with Russia excluded. Domestic inflation policy fails as Republicans defeat a voluntary price cut plan 202 to 188 while Europe relief aid remains under discussion. A safety campaign urges driver training in high schools to cut road deaths.
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Russia
Germany
Europe
United States
Great Britain
France
Truman
Congress
Senate
House
Italy
Austria
China
Brent Spence
Dem
A. S
Mike) Monroney
Okla
House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
John Taber
Rep
N. Y
Wayne Hughes
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Cleveland
Hughes
U. S
National Guard Strength Hits 201 041 On Nov 30 1947
Maj. Gen. Kenneth F. Cramer reports the U S national guard totaled 201,041 on November 30, 1947, a postwar peak except only 1940. He projects 271,000 by June 30, 1948 with 250,000 in about 4,500 army units and 21,000 in 365 air units.
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U. S. National Guard
Kenneth F. Cramer
National Guard
Inflation to Burst Into Bloom This Spring
Inflation fears rise as forecasts predict a peak in April and May with higher prices for meat and goods. Builders face strong demand while CIO wage talks threaten more price pressure, and Washington politicians eye actions before the November presidential election.
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Europe
CIO
Philip Murray
Washington
Be Hit of the Party By Telling Fortunes
A booklet offers nine fortune telling methods including tea leaves dice dominoes and horoscopes for party entertainment. Readers are instructed to send 25 cents and their name address zone to Weekly Newspaper Service New York for Let Me Tell Your Fortune No 65.
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West 17Th St
New York 11
N. Y
Innuendoes and Witty Jokes From An Old Paper
A quirky collection of lines features a farmer quip about saddles worn backwards, a doctor joke about ten dollars and water, a juror misunderstanding his duty, and a fatherly quip on happiness. The passages evoke a playful, old fashioned humor tone.
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Frank Creedon
Bankhage
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Thrift Plan
Abraham Lincoln
Ilinois
Decatur, II
Grace Farnwall
Kid
Johnny Fagan
Burma
U. So Nyun
White House
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Joey Maxim
Henry J. Kaiser
Utica
Smarty
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