Palestine War Rages as UN Truce Fails and Farm Price Bill Signed
The UN truce in Palestine collapses with renewed fighting as Arabs and Jews resume hostilities. President Truman signs a farm price support extension for 15 months beginning 1950, detailing parity levels for crops including cotton, wheat, corn, rice, peanuts, and tobacco. The article notes congressional inaction on soil conservation, marketing research, and rural needs.
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U.N
Palestine
Truman
United Nations
Israel
Count Folke Bernadotte
Bernadette
Arab League
Bernadotte
Trans-Jordan
Holy Land
Congress
Economic Cooperation Aids Europe China Shipments Report
The ECA closed its Marshall Plan books for the first quarter reporting $762,747,140 in recovery shipments approved for Europe and China. The total amounts to about 58 percent of the original goal for this period.
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Economic Cooperation Administration
Europe
China
Berlin Berlin Crisis Deepens as Berlin Blockade Standoff Grows
Reports describe the East West stalemate over Germany as the Soviet blockade intensifies with plans for a German republic constitution and a two year economic link to the Soviet zone. Western leaders resist a West German federal government while Berlin faces power cuts to conserve coal. The Soviet Congress proclaims indivisible Germany and returns calls for control over Berlin. In Washington, Dewey weighs tasks if elected including cabinet reshuffles and unified federal policy across foreign and domestic affairs. May price index rises .6 percent to a new high, dollar purchasing power falls to 61.3 cents.
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U. S
Tonis
Berlin
Germany
German People’s Congress of
Russia
United States
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Washington
Congress
National Industrial Conference Board
Republicans Rise in Philadelphia to Challenge New Deal
The piece denounces Roosevelt era excess and forecasts a 1940 Republican challenge led by Dewey. It praises Dewey as faithful and prosecutorial while depicting Democrats as decaying under tax and corruption scrutiny. It recalls Hoover’s 1933 rhetoric and Melton’s opening program as dignified moments amid convention noise.
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Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
York
Washington
Treasury
Justice
Defense
State Departments
Dewey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ickes
Morgenthau
Eleanor the Great
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
London
Lord Beaverbrook
American Republic
Mountbank
Herbert Hoover
James Melton
Homemaking Tips From A Past Era
Practical household hints cover glass cleanup with absorbent cotton and disposal, improved glass spark through washing with water and laundry bluing, sprinkling with a punctured dressing bottle, removing pet hairs with damp sand paper, boosting aquariums with charcoal, cleaning glass straws with pipe cleaners, using a grapefruit knife to hollow produce, choosing wax types for floors, and preventing kettle scale with an oyster shell.
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Bill Schoentgen
WNU
Estern Newspaper Union
Hugh D. Scott Jr
Pennsylvania
Scott
Germantown
Chestnut Hill
Trouble
Westbrook Pegler
John Edgar Hoovettser
Ws Hoever
Harold Ickes
Coast Guard
Interior Department
Fukui
Japan
U. S. Air Force
Fort Worth
Tex
65Th Street
East River
Lou Brooks Thomas
Fristoe
Thomas
Edmond C. Walsh
Edward J. Flanagan
Nebraska
Marilyn Radiein
Des Plaines, al
Dav
3Rd St. San Francisco
Amennes
Dyes Lesheigh
Telegraph Ave
Oakland
Calif
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