Steel shortages ripple through military production
Defense plans shift orders to non-struck plants as unions at Pittsburgh pass material through picket lines. Air Materiel Command warns gaps may open in the supply pipeline if strikes continue, affecting aircraft production and ammunition. Navy reports shipyard steel and specialized grades scarce while Atomic Energy Commission projects draw heavy steel use for Savannah River and Paducah facilities. Large West Coast beam used in California highway structure highlights industrial scale.
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Calif
West Coast
California Diviswor of Highways
Taft campaign clash over delegate totals and policy
Taft leader Ward Bond reported 588 delegates on first ballot, but polls show Taft 466 and Eisenhower 393. Taft accuses Eisenhower of shifting views on spending cuts and tax relief while promising to balance the budget in year one. Taft blasts New Deal Republicans and urges end to price controls, while defending the Taft Hartley Act and criticizing MacArthur as keynote speaker. Taft plans to fly back to Washington after the program.
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Belles
Bob
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Tait
Europe
Truman
Soviet Russia
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Gen. MacArthur
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Macarthur
Astona
Texas
Sweden and Russia trade notes over Catalina air incident
Stockholm reports Soviet and Swedish officials exchanged sharp notes after a Swedish Catalina rescue plane with seven aboard was shot down by Soviet fighters in the Baltic Sea. Sweden protests claiming the aircraft stayed outside Soviet waters while Moscow says the plane overflew and began the confrontation.
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Andrei
Vishinsky
Rolf Soman
Moscow
Baltic Sea
Gorilla distraction causes Cleveland car crash
A man claimed a theatrical gorilla prop distracted him, causing a collision with a police car in downtown Cleveland. The gorilla prop had been used to advertise a movie. Robert Mackey Jr. was injured after falling 30 feet from a tree in nearby Graft, while employed by a tree service.
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Wiliam Wright
Bernard Schiveter
Wright
Robert Mackey, Jr
Plattsburg
Quads Birth Amid Quake Wrecks Formosa News
A strong Formosa earthquake rattled towns including Taigeh and Vunlin, felt across eastern and northern regions. In Massachusetts Troy residents faced a visitor ban as Troy Record and Times Record report. In Troy hospital nurse staff increased after Mrs. Manning and her quadruplets, three boys, were described as active and fine though labor and delivery costs rise.
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INS
Troy
Hualiga
Troy Record
Marioni
Manning
Frank L. York
Times-Record
John
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