Civil Defense Plans Prepared For Quick Rollout
Washington NSRB aims to ready a civil defense program by summer using a 28 point checklist and input from Seattle Chicago and Washington authorities. Officials say the plan will guide states and cities with manpower resources and after action steps for atomic emergencies while remaining nonmandating.
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Washington
National Securities Resources Board
NSRB
Seattle
Chicago
NLRB
Eric Biddle
SRB
Ilinois
NSEB
Sweden Denmark draft protest over Baltic Sea seizure
Informed sources said Sweden and Denmark are drafting a joint protest to Russia over the seizure of their fishing vessels in the South Baltic Sea. Russia contends its territorial waters extend two miles from shore, not the customary baseline.
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Sluumholm
Sweden
Denmark
Russia
Baltic Sea
Baltic
Fragmentary note on energy use and creative control
A brief line describes bending energies toward constructive art, tempered by moments of losing control that lead to tearing things apart. The initials TB RD suggest two individuals or sources behind the reflection on discipline and disruption.
GE Faces Bulb Curb in Government Antitrust Action
In Trenton on June 5 6 the U S government seeks a court order forcing General Electric to halve its lamp making facilities for large and miniature bulbs including Christmas tree lamps. Judge Phillip Forman will hear further argument June 12. GE contends the move aims to destroy its lamp business while only lamps are affected.
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Trenton
U. S
General Electric Company
Phillip Forman
de Eree
General Electric
Forman
Whitney N. Seymour
G.E
Bremen's Mayor Visits Albany
The Lord Mayor of Bremen Wilhelm Kaisen observed his 63d birthday in Albany and planned to visit Mayor Erastus Corning before departing for Chicago for the Council of State Governors. He toured Washington Park and marked his birthday by studying ways to combat Bremen's unemployment problem.
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Albany
Bremen
Germany
Chicago
New York
Wilhelm Kaisen
Erastus Corning
Washington Park
Kaisen
Austria Bows to Red Block in Treaty Talks
Vienna officials said Russia's latest deadlock in London shows Austria faces longer occupation than the seven years the Nazis endured. Moscow blocked progress by demanding Western powers answer charges of violating the Trieste peace treaty, a link Western officials dismissed as ridiculous. Vice-Chancellor Schaerf blamed Cold War tensions for the stalemate as Western Allies move to ease occupation controls amid unanswered Russian notes.
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Vienna
Austria
Russia
London
Trieste
Adolf Schaerf
U. S
United States
Britain
Dynamiter's House Hit by Boulder in Quarry Blast
Roy Fishel helped prepare a routine dynamite blast at a stone quarry. A 1,000 pound boulder crashed through his house roof as thousands of rocks showered the countryside. No injuries, but power lines were toppled and 6,000 homes lost electric service. A quarry chunk shattered the roof, damaged a bedroom, and struck a nearby gas station.
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Mulumbla
Roy’ Fishel
Fisher
Engineers Lose Their Signatures
Baltimore and Ohio adopts musical whistles on one train and single chime whistles on eight yard engines to reduce noise for nearby residents. Diesel locomotives now use tuned chimes, each engine producing one fixed tune, replacing the old steam whistle identity once linked to Casey Jones.
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Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio
Casey Jones
Casey
Tennessee
New York
Merger Proposal Urges Union of U S and Canada
Look Magazine finance editor George E Shea Jr urges uniting the United States and Canada to form one nation for economic and military reasons. He argues the U S Canada border is a menace and a removal would boost prosperity and industrial power to offset Soviet Russia threats.
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New York
United States
Canada
Look Magazine
George E. Shea
Wall Street Journal
U.s.-Canadean
Soviet Russia
Canada Mass Production Ties Urgency in Military Unity
The statement emphasizes accelerating back development of mass production facilities in Canada for military reasons. Shea argues that continued separation of nations hinders absolute military unity, and thus the overall effectiveness of forces in a common war will suffer.
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Canada
Shea
Engineering Job Prospects Improve Across Colleges
A Northwestern National Life Insurance survey of 47 colleges and tech schools found 31 schools expect 75 to 100 percent of graduates to land jobs by fall, with the remaining schools reporting prospects down from 1949. The outlook is brighter for engineering graduates in Minneapolis and beyond.
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Minneapolis
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