Cold War Propaganda and Anglo American Economic Ties
A wartime dossier reveals Nazi Soviet negotiations in 1940 including plans to exclude Britain and the U S from Asia and Africa. Stalin proposed a joint axis with Germany for Middle East access, while Hitler reportedly rebuffed. The piece notes anti Russian propaganda risks and debate in Congress, plus Britain’s dollar-focused tourism policy under Harold Wilson and labor unease over exploitation.
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Adolf Hitler
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Britain
U.S
Renee
Asia
Africa
Stalin
Gersnnieiaiianr Apenas
Axis
Hitler
Dardanelles
Middle East
Omsores
State Department
England
Great Britain
Harold Wilson
British Board of Trade
Wilson
the. London Daily
Hoover Opposes Four Year European Recovery Plan
Former President Herbert Hoover urged Congress to reject a four year Marshall plan commitment and cut the proposed 6.8 billion dollar aid outlay. He argued the United States should focus resources at home, fearfully warning lavish aid could worsen inflation and erode U.S. economy while supporting a bipartisan shift to gifts for some aid.
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Herbert Hoover
U. S
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
State Department
Eisenhower Prediction Shifts as Roberts Sees Withdrawal
Roy A. Roberts president of the Kansas City Star and pro Eisenhower advocate says Eisenhower will remove himself from presidential consideration. Roberts predicts he will announce by June and lay aside his military uniform around February 15 signaling withdrawal from the political picture.
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U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Roy A. Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
Roberts
H E
Eisenhower
Southern Democrats Split Over 1948 Campaign Deadlock
A. F Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen backs Truman’s 1948 bid, reversing 1946 rail strike opposition. In Mississippi, Fielding Wright hints at party secession from Democrats over perceived anti-southern federal measures and proposals in Congress.
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A. F Whitney
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
President Truman
White House
Whitney
Truman
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Wright
Congress
Wallace Could Swing November Vote If 6 Percent Defects
Democrats fear Henry Wallace could steal enough votes to hand the presidency to Republicans. A 6 percent shift from Democratic to Wallace would yield 281 electoral votes for the GOP, with Democrats at 182 votes and 17 states. The party would need Wallace inroads under 6 percent to win.
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Henry Wallace
Wallace
GOP
New Mexico
Woods Pushes March 1 1958 Rent Control Extension
Housing expeditor oe Woods urged a congressional committee to extend rent controls to March 1, 1958 with no overall rent increases and stronger enforcement. He testified after Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman’s call for controls to curb landlords profiteering. A Johns Hopkins professor claims to have found readable samples of the oldest known precursor to European and Semitic alphabets in a turquoise mine near Mt Sinai, Egypt, from ancient miners around 1500 B C, with the mine said to be at least 300 years older.
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Oe Woods
Woods
Commerce
Averell Harriman
W. F. Albright
Johns Hopkins University
Egypt
Biblical
Mount Sinai
Lieved
Quiz of quirky questions from a playful quickfire
A playful set of questions covering odd topics. It asks about postage stamps pummie notes a tunes goldfish teeth tennis serves the meaning of Hamlet color of amaranthine and which US state has the most mineral springs and whether birds lay eggs in sub zero temperatures.
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United States
Fragmented Q&A on weather, birds, and etymology
A sequence of scattered statements covers numeric guesses about quantities and speeds, a riddle about two notes, a claim about throats, etymology of Hamlets origin from Jutish Amilode, a cryptic phrase see red, an incomplete term Ar, and a note about Canadian jays laying eggs at 20 degrees below zero.
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Canada
You Build It Poultry House or Workshop
Practical pattern method makes building a poultry house or workshop simple for anyone who can drive a nail and saw a board. The easy technique removes mystery and offers a low-cost pattern set, though the exact contents are unclear from the fragment.
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Meor
Rene Mayer
France
Galahad
St. Louis
Jay
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