Washington's Seamy Side in the Capital City
A reflective column recalls 1858 Washington with no streetcars or sewers, contrasts its rough beginnings with today’s status as a world capital, and notes the ongoing rat control program costing about 75000 dollars annually while praising a vigilant citizenry and a long fight for votes.
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Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Washington
Union
Washigton Evening Star
Theodore Nayes
Canberra
Camelot
Merlin
Baghdad In
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Potomac
Ir. Noyes
Congress
Noyes
American Museum of Natural History
United States Public Health Service
Europe
When People Vote They Win
The June Economic Outlook from the CIO argues mass voting is key to liberal progress. It cites turnout in past off and on years and warns of political manipulation, surveillance fears, and the belief that voters get what they support. The piece notes surveillance fears from war excess and mentions White House fingerprinting and a senate hearing.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Senate War Investigating Committee
Mead
Samuel Johnson
Washington
Heaven
FBI
White House
Dean
Truman Shows Short Temper and Atomic Blasts Mystery
President Truman displays irritability at a press conference and his doctor says it is a normal part of being president. Reports from Bikini Atoll describe lingering radioactivity and unusual effects from the atomic tests, including drones and color-changing mice. Agricultural data show a 3.2 percent rise in cotton under cultivation by July 1, with state by state figures, and wheat shipments to Europe reach 297 million bushels for the year. Altoona tests indicate stripped coal fields backfilled can become productive farm land.
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Truman
John O’donnell
O'Donnell
FDR
Col
Wallace Graham
White House
South Pacific
Navy
United States
Europe
Anderson
Altoona
Record Corn Crop Forecast Sets U.S. High
The Department of Agriculture projects the largest corn crop in U.S. history at 3,341,646,000 bushels with winter wheat a record 857,163,000, oats at 1,471,026,000, and total wheat around 1,090,092,000. Prospects cite favorable weather and regional yield patterns across wedges from Kansas to New England and from the Plains to the Southeast.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Department
Kansas
Oklahoma
New England
South Dakota
Nebraska
Virginia
North Carolina
Municipal utilities gain ground despite powerful lobby
YNL Washington Bureau reports that localities increasingly adopt municipal electric systems with lower taxes and rates. Data show 3,371 towns served publicly, 2,827 under 5,000 population, over 800 rural cooperatives, and $550 million allocated for REA plans. Voters back public power as private utilities lose ground.
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Washington
Missouri River
Congress
RIBA
Canada
Tennessee Valley Authority
Georgia Power Company
Mississippi
Tupelo
TVA
REA
Claude Wickard
Mr. Wickard
Gems of Thought Quotations and Reflections
A collection of terse moral maxims from Bryant Coleridge Irving Wilde and Smiles. The lines extol resilience solitude wisdom motherhood and the uplift found in misfortune and sorrow with a tone of classical literary wisdom.
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Bryant
Coleridge
L Washington Irving
Samuel
Oscar Wilde
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