Food and Labor Dominate Postwar Policy Debates
Hoover toured a famine survey urging voluntary food conservation and world aid. He cited 14 million tons needed to next harvest and urged Russia and South American countries to share grain. The piece notes U.S. cereal shipments of 4.22 million tons and ongoing drought impacts on Great Plains wheat. It also covers Indian independence talks, domestic labor strife, and passage of a veterans housing bill with subsidies and expanded mortgage lending.
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World
Herbert Hoover
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Haly
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Siam
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Senate
Dollar diplomacy shifts to stabilizing postwar world
The United States uses its wealth to promote free exchange abroad, first applying dollar diplomacy to Poland and China. Washington suspended a 90 million dollar loan to the Warsaw government over censorship and loan terms. Poland denied censorship claims and said loan terms arrived too late. General George C. Marshall was given control of a proposed half billion dollar loan to China to unite Nationalists and Communists into a central government.
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Poland
China
Russia
U. S
Warsaw
Washington
George C. Marshall
UNRRA Delivers One Million Vaccine Doses to Shanghai
UNRRA flew one million doses of a new cattle vaccine to Shanghai to protect surviving cattle and water buffalo in China. Director LaGuardia called the gift vital, noting that saving each animal means more food for the needy and supports plowing capacity.
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UNRRA
China
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Shanghai
U. S
Canada
LaGuardia
Taft Emerges as 1948 GOP Hope in Washington Digest
WNU Service outlines Taft as a rising GOP favorite over Bricker and Stassen for 1948. It notes Taft’s liberal streak on housing, his strong control of Pennsylvania and Cincinnati-Philadelphia networks, and potential competition from Stassen and Vandenberg while suggesting some Democrats fear his path to the nomination.
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Washington Digest
Taft
Bricker
Senate
House
Bob Taft
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Pew
Pennsylvania
Messrs. Stassen
Vandenberg
National Dairy Week Acknowledges Milestones In June
Historical overview recounts Dairy Month’s origins from a 1937 national milk week to its 1989 shift to a full month celebration. It notes June as peak milk production, milestones like early milk transport, pasteurization era, and the 1884 milk bottle invention. Mentions army diet inclusion and WWII usage.
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America
Jamestown Colony
Plymouth Colony
Orange County
New York City
Hervey D. Thatcher
Potsdam
Trade Idaho Spuds For Rica Bananas
BOISE Idaho The fast motor ships on the Caribbean run bringing bananas to the United States also return Idaho potatoes to Costa Rica. C G Rice Idaho advertising commission who visited Central America says Costa Rican bananas arrive and Idaho potatoes are eagerly awaited. Rice checked shipments and found Idaho potatoes arrive in Costa Rica in first class condition and are bought up immediately.
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Idaho
Caribbean
United States
Costa Rica
C. G. Rice
Idaho Advertising Commission
Central America
Rice
College Students Taller Than Gil
BERKELEY CALIF In the western United States the average young woman stands 5 feet 8 1/2 inches tall and weighs 127 pounds while the average male is 5 feet 6 1/2 inches and weighs 153 pounds A UC anthropologist led measurements for the National Research Council to aid prosthetic limb design The study included 1000 women and 1800 men across college WAVES soldiers and general population findings show college students taller and heavier than military personnel by about one inch and two and a quarter pounds
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Berkeley
Calif
United States
Theodore D. McCown
University of California
Committee On Prosthetic Devices
National Research Council
Sailor Buys Candy For Many Girls In Uniform Dismissed
In Chicago a bluejacket bought 14 boxes of gaudy candy from a Loop shop with orders to send them to 14 different girls nationwide. When questioned about the saying a sailor has a girl in every part he gave a wry grin and offered no confirmation.
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Chicago
Loop
U. S
Municipal airpark approved and Lamesa to host airport
Plainwell Michigan approves a municipal airpark and licenses it while Lamesa Texas gains temporary municipal airport status. Civil Aeronautics Authority towers protect 131.9 megacycle for private flyers, with plans to reach 100 by June 1. July 1 marks annual aircraft inspections. uninspected craft face penalties. Howard W. Sinclair named aviation training assistant administrator. Col Fred M. Glass named PCA southern region vice president. Midlothian school meteorology students take a plane ride taught by Lester Palmer.
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Plainwell
Mich
Lamesa Field
Lamesa
Texas
CAA
Howard W. Sinclair
Fred M. Glass
Pacific
ATC
PCA
Pilotless plane flies three hours over Nebraska lands damaged
A pilotless plane, its engine left running, took off at Fremont Nebraska and flew for nearly three hours before landing 42 miles from the start. It returned with a damaged wing and tail and a broken propeller and drained fuel. Meanwhile aviation news highlights Paul Mantz, a major private airpower figure with 609 planes, plans to reduce his fleet to about 110. A former Army pilot, Bob Clark, has been given management of Gettysburg Maryland’s municipal landing field. A guide book for aviation education is released, and the University of Arkansas offers a flight training course with both ground work and flight training.
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Fremont
Nept
Nebraska
Gettysburg
M. D
Bob Clark
Child Will Be Happy Over a Lawn Chair
A small pint size lawn chair for children that doubles as outdoor furniture and even serves as a book and magazine resting spot. The pattern 253 yields a compact chair with easy cutting diagrams, matching the adult chair pattern 209, with a ten inch seat height and thirteen inch seat depth. Patterns priced 25 cents each or both, with name and address to request.
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Taian Carne
Chaly
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