Moscow Talks Offer Berlin Breather and Inflation Debate
Moscow talks with Stalin and Molotov raised hopes for easing Berlin tensions and possible deputy minister talks ahead of a Big Four event. Congress adjournment sharpened party lines on inflation and housing as Republicans blamed the 16 year Democratic regime for rising prices. Direct personal taxes are projected to total about 125 billion dollars this year, per a National Industrial Conference board survey.
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Moscow
Josef Stalin
Berlin
Russia
U. S
Great Britain
Rance
Stalin
Molotov
Congress
Truman
GOP
National Industrial Conference Board
Espionage rumors sweep Washington as officials named
Dramatized espionage coverage cites Miss Elizabeth Bentley implicating Nathan Silvermaster William Remington and Alger Hiss with Soviet contacts. FBI spent over three million dollars on probes with no proof. Congress investigates amid sensational testimony and calls of a Communist spy ring in Washington. Cotton mechanization brings cost cuts and labor shifts as 1947 figures show only a small share fully mechanized.
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Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Communist Party
House un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Alger Hiss
State Department
Nathan Witt
NLRB
Lee Pressman
CIO
Elizabeth Bentley
Nathan G. Silvermaster
Board of Economic Warfare and War Assets Administration
William W. Remington
Commerce Department
United Nations
FBI
Senate
House
Karl Mundt
Rep
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UN American Activities Committee
U. S
Bernadotte Peace Plan Hinted For September Move
The article notes a July truce in Palestine and rising optimism that Count Folke Bernadotte’s next peace plan could ease tensions. King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan urges careful consideration of any future proposal and supports justice and saving lives while keeping doors open for negotiation.
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Palestine
Near East
Folke Bernadotte
U. N
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Arab League
Bernadotte
World Council to Convene Amsterdam Assembly on Man and God
The World Council of Churches gathering from August 22 to September 4 in Amsterdam will tackle how to justify humanity to God amid rising materialism. Four hundred fifty leaders will assess Christendom and seek a common basis for world order, under the theme Man's Disorder and God's Design.
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John Milton
Milton
Paul
World Council of Churches
Amsterdam
Oil Demand Surges as U S Consumes More Than Global Half-Century Ago
That Old Oil Oil is being consumed in the U S today at a rate exceeding the total world consumption of only 10 years ago according to an article in Business Comment a bulletin of the Northern Trust Company in Chicago Demand for all oils in the first quarter of 1948 averaged 6 3 million barrels daily an increase of 7 per cent over the corresponding period of 1947.
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U. S
Business Comment
the Northern Trust Company
Chicago
Peru Suffering High Living Costs Versus U S Rise
The 1947 price picture shows Peru facing soaring living costs up to 46.1 percent in a year, with overall increases since 1939 far exceeding the United States. U S costs rose 69 percent from 1939 to 1947, while Canada increased 14.9 percent in 1947 and 45 percent since 1939. More nations show varied deficits in affordability.
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Peru
Andes
U. S
Municipal Finance Officers Association
Elevators Bring Farm Labor Savers to Fields and Barns
Farmers adopt all purpose elevators to move hay ear corn root crops and grain. Portable and stationary units rise to needed heights for chopped hay and other tasks. Operating costs vary but a five horsepower motor elevating 1000 bushels of grain uses about 1/10 to five kilowatt hours, equating to roughly five cents worth of electricity for 500 bushels.
Small Farm Units Are Big Implement Buyers
A survey by the Anti-Friction Bearing Manufacturers Association shows two thirds of the 1.5 billion dollars spent on agricultural implements this year goes to small one family farms. By 1950 four million farms are projected to produce 33 percent more than six million farms did before the war as labor shortages and farm savings drive mechanization.
Plastic Lily Ponds Offer Flexible Uses for Farm and City
Plastic lily ponds provide an affordable alternative to stone basins. They can be emptied, folded for indoor storage in winter, and used as wading pools for children or as duck ponds.
Weevil Damage in Grain Traced to Unclean Bins
Purdue entomologists trace most weevil damage to unclean bins in granaries. Prevention lies in cleaning and spraying with DDT to stop insects lingering year to year in stored grain.
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Purdue University
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