Truman presses Congress as unions seek pay boosts
President Truman appeals to the public to spur action on nine postwar proposals including a 30 day strike curb, housing for five million homes, and price controls. CIO demands raise pay, steel and meat industries face walkout threats, government fends off widespread labor unrest while reconversion and price issues loom.
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Anderson
Apl-Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Worlmen's Union
CIO
Hormel Company
Minnesota
South Dakota
Texas
Allied
United Steel Workers
OPA
CIQ
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Arab League Push for Broad Palestine Boycott
The Arab League with 33 million people plans a wide boycott of Zionist goods in Palestine. Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia have acted. Egypt, Iraq, Trans-Jordan are set. Palestine hesitates amid strong Arab Jewish trade ties. Also notes shifts in U S Navy uniforms and cap styles amid broader wartime dress changes.
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Arab League
Middle East
Syria
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Iraq
Trans-Jordan
U. S. Navy
Lord Nelson
Mitscher
Steel capacity expands nationwide across 27 states
The iron and steel industry shows a record 1949 ingot capacity of 95,505,260 tons, with four states Oregon Virginia Tennessee and Utah hosting facilities that did not exist in 1938. Open hearth capacity now exists in 25 states compared with 22 in 1938.
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Iron and Steel Industry
Oregon
Virginia
Tennessee
Utah
Eclipses in 1946 Seen Despite War Shadow Lifted
Prof Oliver J. Lee of Northwestern University's observatory predicts a near maximum six eclipses for 1946, though only one will be visible in the United States. The solar eclipse will cover 44 percent of the sun’s disk.
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Oliver J. Lee
Northwestern University
Observatory
United States
Germany Implements Soviet Style Reforms in East
Soviet occupation authorities in eastern Germany oversee sweeping agriculture and industrial changes. About 7,000 estates totaling 4,000,000 acres are redistributed to nearly 900,000 peasants with amortization terms, while coal mines and factories in Silesia see workers councils and state-directed production. Central storage prices fix outputs and a planned economy favors state control, with limited free markets remaining for some farm sales.
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Germany
Pruassian Junkers
Silesia
J. G. Farben Trust
Two-Headed Infant Captures Global Attention in Birmingham
An unusually premature two-headed baby girl born to a British wife of an American G I in Birmingham drew wide notice as about the 25th such case in medical records. The infant, alive for only hours, had two heads and necks with separate breathing patterns while parents believed she was a twin birth.
Digest of the Nazi War Crimes Trial and Allied Press Reactions
Washington correspondent surveys the Nuremberg trials, noting Jackson's case that leaders conspired to wage aggressive war, the defense’s limited plan, and the broader aim of outlawry of war. He observes German lawyers’ respect, media tensions, Streicher's marginal role, and postwar democratization efforts including youth baseball among German teenagers amid Allied occupation.
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Washington
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Muernberg
Germany
Court House
Renascimento
Hugo Grotius
Holland
Doenitz
Keitel
Raeder
Jodl
Nazi Party
International
Grotius
Jackson
Justice Jackson
Frankfurt
G.ls
Snow shoveling at Truman home prompts civic effort
Missouri snow blockage near the Summer White House spurs action as James Hopkins clears the north sidewalk with a homemade plow. Independence chamber directors and highway workers join the effort but Mrs. Truman halts driveway clearing. Indiana Rep. Charles La Follette denounces states rights framing, arguing citizen sovereignty. Capital Chaff notes on codebreaking pace and a New Orleans political tiff with Jimmy Comiskey concluding a secret caucus.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Independence
Secret Service
James T. Hopkins
Delaware Street
Truman Home
West van Horn
Highway Department
Mrs. Truman
General Marshall
Dewey
Maestri
New Orleans
Jimmy Comiskey
Farm population shifts after war and aging changes
Dr C C Taylor of the bureau of agricultural economics notes farm population fell by about 5 million from 1940 to 1945, a drop over 15 percent. Between 1940 and 1944 males aged 14 to 24 decreased by about 40 percent, and those aged 25 to 44 declined by more than 20 percent.
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C. C. Taylor
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Blush Beliefs Fade as Unemployment Prospects Brighten
The piece notes diverse European beliefs about blood under a rose tree for rosy cheeks, then contrasts with a Washington headline claiming brighter unemployment prospects, suggesting the cheer is misplaced given the job outlook.
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Germany
France
Italy
Washington
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