Basra oil field to expand British Middle East reach
British plans to start Basra oil production in Southern Iraq threaten to reshape Middle East energy power. Base estimates claim 16 billion barrels in reserves, potentially exceeding prior leaders like Burghan, with initial output near 3 million tons annually and growth beyond. Competition with U S oil interests looms large as Abadan crisis subsides.
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Alex DE Montmorency
New York
CXANA
Abadan
Banquo
Middle East
Basra
Iraq
Foreign Trade
Ottawa
Basra Pool
Anglo-Iranian Out Company
Abadany
Mossadegh
Teheran
Great Burghan
Your Name Sold By Brokers Across the Year
The article explains how average individuals have their names bought and sold by brokers repeatedly, sometimes up to fifty times annually, with notable or wealthy individuals facing hundreds of transactions, highlighting the commerce in personal identifiers.
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Washington Cxana
Changing Times
Kiplinger Magazine
Presia
Saudi Arabia as U.S. ally seen by observers
Saudi Arabia could become a loyal American ally if diplomacy advances quickly. DHAHRAN AIR BASE is described as a key atomic bombing station for U.S. strategic air power, with routes toward Russia. Arabs aim to mobilize up to 2,000,000 desert fighters, reflecting feudal monarchy mobilization and historic Arab Legion strength.
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Saudi Arabia
Dhahran
Nanaj
Middle East
U.S
Dhahean
United States Strategic Air Command
Russia
United States
Arab Legion of
Jjordan
Arabia
Islam
Purges drive up arms in Eastern Europe satellites
Washington reports say a wave of purges sweeps through satellite armies while a surge of Russian equipment arrives to ensure political reliability. intelligence sources flag a two to one mobilization edge over Tito’s forces as Moscow-backed regimes push for stronger control and readiness across the bloc.
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Steffan Andrews
Washington
CNANA
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Higes
Poodie Club Becomes Local Obedience Sensation
New York readers celebrate Jene Poodle Obedience Training Club of Greater New York Inc where poodles impress with advanced tricks. A poodle trained there is described as combining athletic and intellectual traits, capable of hurdling, feigning death, doing errands, and even talking.
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New York
Rocky Marciano
Bertrand Russell
Atence
la Slipper
Red Spies Take Pay in Cameras Across Europe
Russian spies in the U S zone of Austria and Germany are subsidized with cameras due to currency devaluations. Zeiss cameras from Jena earn about 200 to 500 West marks and are not sold through normal channels. A Vienna based spy network led by an ex Nazi reader named Slavic paid 133,000 Austrian schillings monthly, later reduced by exchange rates. British counterespionage also notes significant intelligence activity.
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Munich
CXANA
U. S
Austria
Germany
Schrling
Red
Enazi
Slavic
Young Ontario girl licensed ham radio operator
Cheri Ann Mather of Ontario Oregon became one of the nation’s youngest radio hams at age 10 after passing Morse code, radio theory, and communications law tests. Her license arrived from the Federal Communications Commission and her first transmitting test was with a 16 year old from Cody Wyoming.
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Ontario
Ore
Gpi
Fust
Amatteur
Oregon
Wntpwy
Federal Communications
Iin Cody
Wyo
WNTVI
Cheri Ann
I Mather
Ray Westcott
Soviet Republic Rebels Against Moscow Rule
Reports describe rising Kazakh unrest in the Soviet Socialist Kazakh Republic with peasants refusing grain and livestock seizures. MVD squads have previously suppressed revolt in 1939, and current clashes span Alma Ata and northern Kazakh regions as authorities struggle to quell armed discontent.
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Moscow
Novoyark
Kazakh Republic
Russia
Razaxa
Soviet Union
Munist
MVD
Soviet Asia
al Asian
Toy Equipment Ready for Road Cincinnati
Santa Claus watches as the Charles William Doepke Manufacturing Company in Rossmayne builds toy fire engines and building equipment. More than 220,000 one sixth scale models are assembled using over 70 parts each, with rubber wires duplicating real truck components and steel chassis cut by 150-ton presses for detailed miniature rigs.
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Cincinnati GP
Santa Claus
Charles William Doepke
Rossmayne
Elmira
Alberta taps riches of Northland highway link
Edmonton dispatch reports federal officials promote the Mackenzie Highway as a key all weather route from Grimshaw to Hay River and Great Slave Lake. The road expands northern commerce delivering wheat and barley to market, fish to Hay River, furs by road, and freight for mining and defense.
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Edmonton
Alta
Mberia
Canada
Mackenzie
Polar
Alberta
Grimshaw
Great Slave
Camerele
Lake
Northwest Territory
Reader’s Digest
Joan
New York
Leo Kaye
Mackenzie High
San Francisco
Dawson Creek
B. C
Peace River
Hay River
Yellowknife
Mackenzie River
Arctic
Great Slave Lake
Ram Hay River
Jis
Slave and Athabasca
Australia Drawn Back to Britain After Election Victory
Sydney reports that the Conservative win strengthens Prime Minister Menzies and shifts Australian sentiment toward London. The withdrawal from India and Burma had left Australia feeling isolated. now a new spirit of closer ties to Britain emerges as Australia aligns with the United States on strategic matters.
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Sydney
Australia
Roger G. Menzies
Sterling Bloc
United States
India
Burma
Britain
Asiatic Hemisphere
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Ambrose Hyland
L. Gene
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Randoley L. Uggs
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Poland
Egypt
Toisaudi Arabia
Mand
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I West
London
Paris
Rome
Singapore
Manila
Hase
Tokyo
Honolulu
Ipamac
Annaceadan
Acm
Asraal
Jordan
Roosevelt
Pentagon
Higgs
Tio
Tito
Shaggy
Geoffrey Bocca
Radio Ham
Cheri Aan Westcott
Alma Atai
Alma-Ata
Central Committee of the
Repubs
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G-2
Kaye
California
J Alexander R. Bolling
TUE
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Alexandria Falls
Army
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