Rails Seek Higher Freight Rates Amid Rising Costs
Eastern railroads urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to authorize higher rates for less than carload shipments and set a $2.25 minimum on all freight. They also proposed a 25 pound minimum for small shipments and a $1 minimum for pickup and delivery service. Western carriers asked to cooperate on rate fixing without anti trust penalties under the Reed Bulwinkle act.
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Eastern Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Truman
Eastern Roads
ICC
Navy Plans 409 Atlantic and 285 Pacific Fleet Ships
Washington reports the Navy will maintain a 409-ship Atlantic fleet and a 285-vessel Pacific armada under the 1950 budget. The headcount for heavy combat vessels remains unchanged in both fleets, reflecting a postwar strategic shift.
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Washington
Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
Bulgarian Communist leader Kos tov among 300 arrests in purge
Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov, once Bulgaria’s No 2 Communist, was arrested in a Moscow ordered purge of dissidents. He faced espionage charges for imperialist powers and was expelled from the Communist party and Politburo.
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Traicho Kostov
Moscow
Kostov
Red
Bulgaria
Communist Party
Politburo
Eastern seaboard to receive light combat vessels and destroyers
From the Pacific to the Atlantic naval forces will add light combat ships and destroyers along the eastern seaboard. The carrier Oriskany will be stationed in the Atlantic. A 1950 budget reduction places three Pacific carriers on the inactive list.
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Pacific
Atlantic
Oriskany
Amnesty For Nazis Expanded In Western Berlin
The western Berlin command granted sweeping amnesty auto denazifying an estimated 60 to 70 percent of former Nazis. It covered those under 30 or over 65 on Jan 1, 1949 and all over 50 percent disabled, plus nominal party members who joined after May 1 1937. Those implicated in Nazi activities were excluded.
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Berlin
Women Drivers Lesson Ends In Hospital And Citations
Lee Elmo Cannon 21 gave his girlfriend Mary Kingsborough 22 her first driving lesson in Oakland. She struck a traffic light then hit a heavy cement street grader. They were both hospitalized and the car scrapped. Kingsborough cited for driving without a license. Cannon cited for letting her drive.
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Oakland
Calif
Lee Elmo Cannon
Mary Kingsborough
Miss Kingsborough
Cannon
Sailor drowned after two overboard incidents near Gloucester
Mario Renzi, 52, of Boston, was swept from the deck of a fishing vessel near Gloucester. Rescued onto another ship he was swept overboard again and drowned. He and fellow Boston resident Mario Constanzo were swept from the trawler San Antonio while rigging an emergency rudder on a sister ship, the Nova Antonio.
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Gloucester
Mass
Mario Renzi
Boston
Mario Constanzo
San Antonio
Rescue at Sea During Vessel Incident
Crowns nearby picked up two men as Nova crew gave first aid. A large wave swept Renzi, Constanzo, and two others overboard. only Renzi was saved. Historical note mentions Pilatre de Rozier's first space ascent in 1783 in Paris.
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Renzi
Constanzo
Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier
Bois de Boulogne
Paris
Mark Twain 1873 Self-Pasting Scrapbook Sells 25000
Mark Twain released a 1873 scrapbook with no text that nonetheless sold 25 000 copies. The notes reference a long march by the Mormon Battalion finishing at the Pacific coast in 1847 from Council Bluffs Iowa.
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Mark Twain
Pacific Coast
Council Bluffs
Iowa
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