Economists Predict Boom as Postwar Demand Surges
Economists and officials expect a strong postwar upturn in the second half of 1946 with industrial backlogs shrinking, consumer demand rising, and plentiful money. Estimates place national income near 165 to 175 billion dollars annually for six months, double the prewar level, while price pressures and possible strikes loom as inflation persists.
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New York
Washington
Office of War Mobilization
GOP Plank Platform Highlights State and National Policy
GOP groups adopt a 12 point platform touching gambling reform tax base education veterans roads and public ownership along with foreign policy and Americanism briefs. The platform urges constitutional amendments to reduce political control at the penitentiary calls for state advertising to attract tourism and business and supports the UN while promoting Jeffersonian state rights.
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Veterans
Idaho
Blackfoot
Nampa
Orofino
State Penitentiary
Republican Party
United States
United Nations Organization
America
Experts Plan Bomb Defenses
The War Department's Manhattan Project and a strategic bombing survey released parallel studies. They reject the idea that radioactivity caused extensive civilian deaths, noting differences if blasts occurred at ground level. Army estimates put first bomb’s yield around 20,000 tons of TNT, while the bombing survey remained cautious about overall damage.
Atomic bombs and shelter limits in wartime reports
Civil and military documents describe how atom bombs were deployed and the ensuing destruction. They cite a 1942 fall date for the first blast, note some shells surviving near centers, and that shelters saved about 400 Nagasaki residents.
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Japan
Nagasaki
Russell Named Director After Inspection Tour
Russell, who led an inspection tour of Idaho Southern University as head of the higher education section of the Idaho educational survey, has been appointed director.
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John Dale Russell
Idaho Southern University
Idaho Educational Survey
Executive Dean Nichols Reports on Plant Specimens
Executive Dean John R. Nichols of the higher education division of the United States Office of Education spoke Saturday about collected plant specimens. He noted that listing names would be unhelpful but said scientists gathered nearly everything available. The job begins October first as Harold Brandt arrives from Denver to manage during Mrs. Stedtfeld's absence.
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Higher Education Division
United States Office of Education
John R. Nichols
Davis Writing Book on Idaho Flora from Owyhee Trip
Dr. Ray J. Davis ISU botany professor returned Saturday from Owyhee county with his sons where he gathered plants for his book Flora in Idaho. He says they collected four or five hundred specimens for the volume.
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Ray J. Davis
ISU
Owyhee County
Idaho
Hughes Store Manager Takes Three Month Leave of Absence
Mrs. Dorothy Steicfeld manager of the Hughes store begins a three month leave of absence starting Monday and plans to return later, with no further details announced.
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Dorothy Steicfeld
Hughes
Fox Resigns as Pac Coast Conference Basketball Official
Rich Fox of Nez Perce Idaho resigns as basketball commissioner. His resignation is accepted by basketball and baseball coaches and graduate managers of the northern division Pac Coast conference.
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Spokane
Rich Fox
Nez Perce
Idaho
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