Truman Seeks Public Backing in Push for Postwar Housekeeping
President Truman launches a fireside appeal to mobilize public support for nine postwar measures including 30 day strike limits with fact finding, rapid housing for five million families, and extended price controls. CIO drives wage demands threaten 25 cent hourly raises for 200000 meat workers and 700000 steel workers seek $2 daily pay boost as labor unrest rises.
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Truman
Congress
Cio-United Packinghouse
Anderson
Afl-Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen’s Union
CIO
Hormel Company
Minnesota
South Dakota
Texas
Steel and Allied
United Steel Workers
OPA
U. S. Steel Corporation
Arab League Pushes Boycott Against Zionist Goods
The Arab League aims to apply broad pressure on Jewish aims in Palestine by boycotting Zionist manufactured goods. Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia have acted while Egypt Iraq Trans-Jordan complete plans, Palestine holds back amid close Arab Jewish business ties in Jaffa. Jewish exports to the listed Arab states rose to 12.5 million dollars in 1944, about 30 percent of Jewish sales, while Arab deliveries to Palestine climbed to 34 million dollars.
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Palestine
Arab League
Middle East
Syria
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Iraq
Trans-Jordan
Navy weighs new uniforms to replace historic seafaring garb
The U S Navy considers discarding laced sailor trousers and the black neckerchief in favor of new uniforms. Tests include two blue and white pant sets with a blue jacket and a gray trouser outfit for duty, plus jumper sport shirts and a long peaked gray cap popular with Vice Admiral Mitscher.
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U. S. Navy
Lord Nelson
Mitscher
Growth and distribution of 1945 steel capacity across states
The iron and steel industry reports record 95,505,280 tons of ingot capacity in 1945 with wider national spread. Four states Oregon Virginia Tennessee and Utah host capacity previously absent in 1938. Open hearth capacity now exists in 25 states versus 22 in 1938.
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Iron and Steel Industry
Oregon
Virginia
Tennessee
Utah
Six Eclipses Predicted for 1946 by Northwestern Professor
Professor Oliver J. Lee of Northwestern University’s observatory forecasts a near maximum of six eclipses in 1946. Sun eclipses will be rare with only one total event visible from limited regions, covering about 44 percent of the solar disk.
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Oliver J. Lee
Northwestern University
Observatory
Soviet Reform Reshapes East Germany Economy So Far
Eastern German provinces under Soviet guidance have redistributed land from 7,000 estates totaling 4 million acres to about 300,000 peasants with amortization plans. Livestock and tools were divided and crops coordinated to central storage with 70 percent of output controlled by the state. Industrial reforms in Silesia place workers with managers as provinces direct production and pricing.
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Germany
Junkers
Silesia
I. G. Farben Trust
Premature two headed infant born to British wife of American G I
A six week early baby girl in Birmingham weighed 5 lb 12 oz and had two heads and necks with separate respiration. The infant lived 50 hours and was one of about 25 such cases in medical records. The mother believed she bore twins. The report notes embryonic split and distinct sleep cycles for each head. TVA earnings and remittance to the federal government are also cited.
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G.I
Birmingham
England
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Tennessee Valley
Kentucky
Fontana
Muscle Shoals
Farm Population Falls After War With Age Shifts
Dr. C. C. Taylor of the bureau of agricultural economics reports a wartime decline in farm residents. Between 1940 and 1945 the farm population fell by millions, over 15 percent, with a 40 percent drop in males aged 14 to 24 and more than 20 percent fewer men aged 25 to 44 from 1940 to 1944.
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C. C. Taylor
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washington Digest Trial of Nazis Historic Attempt to Outlaw War
A field report on the war crimes trials focusing on the Jackson prosecution of Nazi leaders for aggressive war. The piece analyzes Grotius law, defense tactics, and the significance of outlawry of war, plus reflections on Streicher and wartime propaganda. It notes German attitudes, journalism dynamics, and postwar American efforts to democratize Germany through baseball.
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Muernberg
Germany
Renascimento
Hugo Grotius
Holland
Doenitz
Keitel
Raeder
Jodl
Jackson
Nazi Party
Grotius
Justice Jackson
Streicher
Europe
Uncertain rosy myths linger in Europe and dream of future air travel
Barbs by Bankhage notes folk beliefs about rosy cheeks from blood under a rose tree, contrasts with a Washington headline claiming brighter unemployment prospects, and envisions postwar commercial globetrotting with planes carrying weather data from distant regions and landing on new airstrips.
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Germany
France
Italy
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Western Newspaper Union
White House
Frankfort
Jaffa Municipal Commission
Dr. Halkal
Britain
Sir Allan Cunningham
NAVY
Washington Digest
WNU
Eye Street N. W
Washington, D. C
Court House
Frankfurt
G.i.s
By Bankhage
Washington
United States
Broadwa
N. Sixth
St. Louis
Barton County
Lamar
First Mortgage Investment Company
Baltimore
Kansas City
Home Furnishings & Appli
Widan Revery Metziner Stove Repair Co
Kansas City 6
Sheppard
General Machinery & Equipment CO
Woodland
Express. Co
L. Stroman - Mission
Missouri Feather CO
Warwick
Wahlert & Guntzler
North First
Saint Louis 2
U.S
King Faaturen Synareala
Doan
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