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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1948
Page
2
The column notes Israel's ceasefire bid in the Palestine war as Arabs resist. It cites UN pressure, Truman's push for expanded social security, and Congress delaying action amid inflation and looming recession risks.
The first UMW coal wage talks collapsed as John L. Lewis walked out over the Southern Coal Producers scene. The dispute shadows a June 30 contract deadline amid an injunction climate. Separately Europe’s harvest looks strong with bread grains rising, while the B 36 sets a record by flying 8 000 miles non stop with a five ton bomb load.
A Washington columnist muses on diary keeping from FDR’s era to 1947, noting Churchill and Pepys as gifted diarists. He recalls his own meager entries from 1914 and 1947, jokes about handwriting, Berlitz purchases, and the irrelevance of most diary notes to major history.
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