Corn Belt Feeds Cattle Amid Record Market Activity
Corn belt cattle feeders are rapidly filling feedlots as heavy harvests boost supplies. October purchases from western grasslands exceed 1945 by 14 percent, signaling potential doubling of grain value if price differentials persist. Free market dynamics and higher finished beef prices promise profitable returns on costly feedlot operations. Meanwhile Admiral Byrd plans High Jump Antarctic expedition with 4000 men 12 ships and numerous aircraft to conduct geological meteorological and geomagnetic studies.
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Department of Agriculture
Antarctica
Byrd
Britain’s Labor government signals gradual socialization plan
Britain’s Labor government pledges a cautious program to nationalize inland transport and power sectors this session while regulating the postwar economy. It aims to avoid disruption, reach fair terms with private owners, control securities markets, suspend the free cotton market, and seek guaranteed prices for key farm products.
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Great Britain
London
Laborites
Prices Rise As Decontrol Hits Economy And Snow Storm Strikes
Prices rise across the board as decontrol loosens wage and material cost pressures. International Harvester lifts farm, implements and tractor prices nine percent, Zenith raises radios up to twenty percent, while shoe makers foresee a ten percent hike. In Colorado a severe snowstorm disrupts relief efforts with hundreds of cattle losses and thousands stranded, prompting air drops of hay to feed livestock.
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International Harvester
Zenith Radio Corporation
Colorado
California
Puebo
Colo
States Return Billions From State Collected Taxes
Forty three states are returning to their municipalities nearly 400 million dollars a year in state collected tax revenues. This does not include other multi millions in state tax aid to local schools. City officials in many states back new programs aimed at getting greater shares of state collected taxes for localities.
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American Municipal Association
Teens at Work Postwar Employment Remains High
National Child Labor committee report cites continued teen labor after the war. General secretary Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand notes about two million youths aged 14 to 18 are employed, based on certificates and other data.
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National Child Labor Committee
Gertrude Folks Zimand
Panama Canal Study Aims at Modernization Overhaul
Under a Congressional grant, meteorologists and engineers study altering the Panama Canal or building a new waterway to handle heavier ships and reduce wartime vulnerability. Options include expanding Gatun Lake capacity, lengthening locks, and widening channels, or constructing a straighter new canal with fewer curves and broader turns.
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Panama Canal
Gatun Lake
Suez Canal
House That Theft Built in Portland Couple Confess
Police held William and Christina Leonard of Portland after they allegedly confessed to building a three room house from stolen timber cement and shingles and furnishing it with plumbing electrical equipment radios typewriters and other items valued at 10000. A $1200 mink coat was also said to be part of the loot.
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William and
Christina Leonard
Portland
Ore
Agriculture Seeks Limits on Cotton Futures Trading
Agriculture Secretary Anderson will ask the Commodity Exchange Commission to cap daily speculation or holdings at 30 000 bales across all futures, aiming to curb market volatility after a recent cotton market dip and a predicted 1946 crop of 8 487 000 bales. Consumers also show rising debt as credit obligations jump by 2 693 000 000 in the year to October 1.
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Department of Agriculture
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Agriculture
Anderson
Commodity Exchange Commission
Department
Northwestern National Life Insurance” Company
U N Trusteeships Face Hurdles at Lake Success
U N deliberations on trusteeships for strategic territories stumble as powers resist relinquishing control. South Africa presses to annex Southwest Africa defying Soviet calls for UN custody. Russia backs a robust trusteeship push while the United States seeks limited UN supervision of Pacific islands with overall military control.
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United Nations
U. N
Lake Success
N. Y
Union of South
Household hints for home projects and cleaning
Painting a porch ceiling white brightens adjoining rooms. Add pebbles in a pill box for a rattling toy. Scrub collars and cuffs with a small brush to remove soil quickly. Rag rugs stay flat after washing in hot and then cold water. Use heavy starch and iron when dry. Make a matching hanky for a new dress. Focus on corners and crevices with a small brush and furniture polish for thorough dusting.
Christmas Smokers Gift Picks Highlight Camel and Prince Albert
The ad promotes giving cigarettes or tobacco as gifts this Christmas. Camel Cigarettes are shown in a 200‑count carton and Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco comes in one‑pound tins. Both brands are marketed with festive gift wrap and broad dealer availability.
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Prince Albert
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Calif
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Pittsburgh
Dwight Eisenhower
Army Chief of Staff
Edward F. Witsell
Montgomery
Army
Austin Denham
Los Angeles
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Ohio
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HALCO
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Glessco
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