Basic Foods Cost Compare Across Cities 1939 to 1948
AP price roundup shows a family groceries bundle for bread butter eggs milk tomatoes and round steak rising from 31.33 in New York 1939 to 33.55 in 1947 and 33.55 this August in New York while Dallas households see 1.12 in 1939 2.51 a year ago and 2.75 now. City-by-city figures include San Francisco Boston Cincinnati Minneapolis Denver and more with inflation highlighted.
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Dallas
Tex
Associated Press
Chicago
San Francisco
Boston
Minneapolis
Denver
Truce Breached as Jerusalem Flares Amid Ceasefire
In Jerusalem Arab and Jewish forces traded accusations of violations after the worst shooting since the second cease fire began four weeks earlier. Mortar and heavy machinegun fire rocked the area just 48 hours after the truce deadline. UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte had urged no firing after Friday dawn. Jews report five dead and blame Arab attacks, while a TransJordan Arab Legion spokesman in Amman claims Jewish assaults on legion forward posts. The Arab side says the attack followed UN observers informing the Legion that Israel accepted Bernadotte's order to refrain from returning fire.
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Jerusalem
Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Trans
Legion
Israel
Bernadotte
Russian zone sentences 13 Germans for food hoarding
The Soviet licensed ADN news agency reported in Saalfield that 13 Germans were tried in Saxony for economic sabotage. They received a total 23 years imprisonment and fines totaling 57 000 marks about 19000 dollars.
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Byrlin
Saxony
ADN
Saalfield
Ruhr Steel King on Trial
Fritz Thyssen, 74, former Ruhr steel magnate who broke with Hitler at the war’s start, faced a German denazification court in Koenigstein. Declaring himself stateless with revoked citizenship, he sought Argentina where his daughter lives. Indictment accuses him of Nazi affiliation for 15 years.
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Koenigstein
Germany
Fritz Thyssen
Ruhr Steel
Adolf Hitler
Argentina
Hitler
Thyssen
Party
Science Aid Urged for World Chaos
Scientists from 10 nations urged the United Nations to convene a scientific conference with social science and psychiatry experts to study international tensions and propose practical solutions. The call appeared in a 4 page statement by the preparatory commission for the International Congress on Mental Health at the opening of a six day mental hygiene conference.
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London
United Nations
Mother reverses stance on life saving operation for baby
Irene Lamphere 21 changes her mind about surgery to correct a bladder exstrophy in her 21 month old daughter Pamela after hearing reports of successful cases. She will let doctors decide timing while court plans to seek medical school input.
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Chicago
Irene Lamphere
Pamela
Reward Offered for Killers in Cadwell Death
A $1,000 reward was posted for information leading to the arrest of those who bludgeoned to death Mrs. Kineht Smith a plantation owner. Her mutilated body was found on her estate Saturday night with a blood stained club nearby and one arm bound.
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Cadwell
Kineht Smith
Wallace Plans Tour of Seven Southern States
Henry A Wallace announced his Progressive Party bid will launch a tour of seven Southern states on August 29. He will speak to mixed audiences of white and Negro persons in more than 20 cities across Virginia North Carolina Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas and Tennessee.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
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