Government maps storage plan to aid farmers after harvest
Senate agriculture hearings focus on grain storage as crop prospects rise to record levels. Officials say a government loan program will back new facilities and the plan targets the corn belt while preparing for Pacific Northwest and Southwest hot spots.
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Washington
Rnment
Govent
Congress
Agriculture Department
Senate Agriculture Mittee
Ted Press
Pacific Northwest
Housing surplus visible in Minneapolis realty survey
The Minneapolis Board of Realtors reports new homes in over supply and a shift of used dwellings from shortage to normal, part of a national survey by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. National president Herbert C. Brady predicts a housing surplus by 1949 as demand meets supply.
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Minneapolis
United States
Minneapolis Board of Realtors
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Herbert C. Brady
Wichita
Kans
Farmer Gets Smaller Share of Consumer's Food Dollar
The Agriculture Department says farmers receive a shrinking portion of the retail food dollar since price controls ended. Marketing margins account for 54 percent of the rise in food prices from 1946 to 1948, with the family market basket costing $663 in December 1948 compared to $480 in June 1946. farmers earned $85 of the increase while marketing agencies took $98.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Department
Government Pays Jobless Over Nation Forty Millions Per Week
Washington reports unemployment compensation costs about 40 million dollars weekly, supplying roughly two fifths of the average earnings. Average weekly benefits rose to 20 dollars with state boosts, as Truman seeks higher federal standards. The unemployment fund totals 7.6 billion, with 2 million recipients and last year’s expenditures near 790 million. The House sent a 10 million deficiency measure to the Senate for state grants and office operation.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Employment Security
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Woman Found Dead In Furnace In Chicago
The burned body of Mrs. Rose Kaplan was found in her furnace in Chicago. Police say evidence points to suicide after her husband Sam Kaplan reported she had been ill and threatened to take her own life. In other notes, the piece mentions 11,394 Indians in Washington state.
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Chicago
Rose Kaplan
Sam Kaplan
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