Australia’s postwar boom ends in recession fears
The Sydney report describes a shift from prosperity to rising unemployment and tightened budgets as Australia faces a postwar downturn. It notes higher wages but reduced family income, rising food costs, and a slump in wool prices and foreign investment, hurting government prestige and election prospects.
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Sydney
Australia
Robert G. Menzies
House of Representatives
Liberal
Country
U. S
Presidential Quiz Then and Now
A reader quiz item by Harold T Curley lists questions about early presidential elections. It cites the 1936 or earlier conventions naming Landon Knox and Roosevelt Garner, notes Roose vevelt’s oath for a second term, and tracks vice presidential terms. It includes a path to a history scrapbook.
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Cleveland
Aldred M. Landon
Kansas
Frank Knox
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Garner
Rooseveele
Landon
John Adams
Clinton
Tompkins
Calhoun
Marshall
Garnet
Unclear wages and unemployment rise in Liberia report
The document notes wages and unemployment shifts with figures such as 31.33 a week and a labor force around 2.62 million. It mentions President Tubman and a 463-ton yacht bought in Holland, valued at over a million dollars after labor fittings, plus 45 000 unemployed as of July 25. The text blends economic data with references to ships and industry.
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Sydney
Monrovia
Liberia
William V
Tubman
Holland
Edward J. Rove
Ta Kung Pao staff reshuffled amid re indoctrination drive
A Chungking dispatch claims 90 percent of Ta Kung Pao staff were sent to reform school for re indoctrination and the circulation manager was taken to a Peoples Court. The circulation chief and two typesetters were reassigned to editorial posts. The piece notes the longtime veteran Thomas, age over sixty, involved in the shop for decades.
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Hong Kong
Communist Party
Ta Kung T
Pag
Chungxing
China
Chungking
Reform School
Peoples Court
Dispatch
Ign
Last Occupation Soldier Found in Burma Remains of Japanese Army
A six year old Japanese soldier, among remnants of the occupation force, was found living with an elderly Burmese couple near Mandalay. Police took the man to a hospital after he was severely injured during a quarrel with villagers.
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Mandalay
Burma
de- Suride
iMe Iass Siagseer
Here
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Jonzer
Aes
Ius Joo
Harold T. Curley
Milhon Yacht
Statt
Barber
Spring City
Joseph Thomas
Saidé
Vyataer
Thomas
Hae
Benek
Belle
Fleischmans
Frieze
Chenille Hatelasse
Salina Street
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