merger of American and Pan American airline lines debated
The proposed AOA PAA merger prompts questions of monopoly and competition. Three American lines control 75 percent of North Atlantic traffic and are profitable, but four foreign carriers also compete. Tariffs, subsidies, labor costs, and equipment costs drive rivalry, with government subsidies limited to air mail support. A merger could improve efficiency, cut subsidy expenses, and preserve supremacy in transatlantic travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Overseas Airlines
trans-Atlantic
Pan American Airways
Trans World Airline
North Atlantic
Aoa-Paa
American Air
Atlantic
Britain
Boeing
Peace In Capital WASHINGTON President Truman Christmas Trip
A festive, reflective note from Washington describes a quiet holiday period as aides return home for Christmas. Washington City News Service editor Arch Eddy shares two items: a bipartisan group of congressmen planning carol singing in the congressional library and a plan to remotely light the White House Christmas tree via a 1,500 mile electrical impulse.
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Washington
Truman
Washington City
Arch Eddy
Eddy
Congressional Library
President Truman
Independence
Mon
White House
Mr. Truman
Truman watches may foretell a white Christmas
In a rambling holiday column, the narrator jokes about weather forecasting and a presidential Christmas tree. He recalls a prior quip about weather bureau reports, notes a real Christmas tree to be chopped in the back pasture, and invites congressmen to visit without harmony.
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Independence
White House
Mr. Truman
Weather Bureau
Advice From The Doctor Warns Against Health Obsession
A doctor warns that excessive worry about health and disease is common in modern times due to media. While noting early symptoms matters, constant anxiety can create real symptoms and distress. Reasonable knowledge of the body is urged, with caution to ignore fleeting pains, but to seek care for persistent or alarming signs.
Modern treatment of alcoholism as a medical issue gains support
A New Sidt committee of lawyers and doctors proposes recognizing alcoholism as a disease rather than a crime. They seek hospitals clinics and farms to certify chronic drinkers. The piece argues alcoholics deserve medical and psychiatric care, not jail, noting Alcoholics Anonymous and psychiatrists show better results than incarceration. It urges governments to abandon archaic criminal approaches.
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Olilla
Sidt
Alcoholics Anonymous
Psychiatrists
Sirloin Prices Prompt Meat Shortage Question
In a reader letter Paul Gallico laments high prices and shrinking availability of premium beef cuts. He notes steady costs for NY steak, questions where unsold steaks go, and suggests economic pressures limit meat purchases across the country. He asks where the supply has vanished and why primes remain unaffordable. The letter blends humor with concern over rising costs and access.
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New York
Weather Man Under Fire In Frosty Verse Plea
The Rhyming Reporter vent advocates mercy from the Weatherman as a harsh cold spell looms. A playful protest calls for milder winter weather and warns of angry responses while recalling prior forecasts and the danger of severe storms. The poem blends humor with a sharp critique of gloomy forecasts.
Murderer Mundt and Laurence Duggan in the crossfire
A Washington column rails at Congressman Mundt over Duggan’s death and the smear tactics used against him. The piece defends Laurence Duggan’s character, recalls his public service and stance on Latin American issues, and warns against headline driven attacks on reputations. It also notes diplomatic updates on Franco Spain loans, Dulles’s possible UN post, and other State Department matters.
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Washington
Congressman Mundt
Un-American Activities Committee
Larry Duggan
New York
Duggan
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Prague
Jan Masaryk
Himmlers
Germany
Laurence Duggan
Latin America
Alexandria
Northwest
United States Senate
Mundt
Cordell Hull
Sumner Welles
Spain
Bob Lovett
Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Lovett
Marsall
Dulles
U. S
United Nations
Paul Hoffman
Venezuela
Hoffman
Chennault
Flying Tigers
China
J. Leighton Stuart
USA
Chiang
United States
International Monetary Fund
Harry Vaughan
Truman
Peron
Walter Winchell
CAA
San Antonio
Brewster
Maine
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAB
Civil Aeronautics Board
Ives
Europe
Congress
Navy
Maritime Commission
Washington Wants Unified Europe Policy From White House
Diplomats in Washington hope for a clear top driven policy for Europe and Germany in the coming year and decade to end conflicting approaches from Pentagon, General Clay, and State Department. France pushes for an international Ruhr supervision with tacit US support, overriding the Clay Pentagon line and signaling a shift amid domestic revulsion against past authority.
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Washington
Europe
Germany
United States
Truman
Pentagon
Ruhr
State Department
Conflicting Views on German Postwar Policy and Cartel Trends
Marquis Childs notes growing support for international oversight in the Ruhr while Cartels resist restoration under German leadership. A USA policy clash is seen as fragmenting German industry and defense planning, with arms production shifts for Western Europe and Spain's Franco influence prompting strategic anxieties about another prolonged European occupation.
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Ruhr
International Co-Operative Alliance
COC
Ae le Petreman
Germany
Kenneth C. Royall
New York Times
European Co-Operation Administration
United States
Western Europe
Western Alliance
Pentagon
Franco Spain
France
Pyrenees
Europe
U. S
Pocatello Postings Gate City Goings On
Local Pocatello column highlights involve TV poll pioneer George Gallup and a remark on polling accuracy. Sheriff Alma Marley holds two rings found on courthouse lawn Christmas Eve and invites owner contact. Harold Lloyd's cousin Al Lloyd, PFE shift engineer, will visit Hollywood for holidays then return. Weather notes flag cold spells across Snake River flats with subzero readings in American Falls and Aberdeen.
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Alma Marley
Pocatello
Hollywood
Harold Lloyd
al Lloyd
The
PFE
Lloyd
Mildred Davis
Harold
Shrine
America
Pocatello Lloyds
Snake River
American Falls
Aberdeen
Maria Montez Rebuffs Hollywood In Paris Film Plan
Maria Montez laughs at Hollywood discomfort at lunch at the Colony. She says she will produce her own film in Paris with low expenses to prove her acting ability. Montez rejects Hollywood expectations and insists she is a capable actress who can take action beyond studio sentiment.
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Maria Montez
Hollywood
Maria
Colony
Paris
Noah
Miss Montez
France
Jean Pierre-Aumont
Hayes Office
Hahnee
Errol Flynn
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Paul Gallico
Lady Bountiful
Weatherman
Coalmen
UEC
Fairbanks
Pearson
Marquis Childs
Gate City
George Gallup
George
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