Labor's Role in Politics Analyzed After Election
In the aftermath of the election the author argues labor is an American citizen first, not a political unit. He notes CIO-PAC influence drew voters who opposed its aims, shows many union members voted against its push, and credits frontier American customs with the election’s conservative swing. The 80th Congress faces a tougher job, not to smash labor but to avoid it smashing itself.
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Forgiveness Amid War Plans Rehabilitate German Prisoners
In postwar Frankfurt 1945 a dispatch describes a plan to admit German war prisoners to French citizenship to repopulate France. The story, once deemed incredible, was later confirmed by the French minister of population. The author reflects on how war hates are artificial and do not govern personal relationships.
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Germany
David Wills
Washington
France
Marianne
America
Parties Split On Hot Issues Across Parties In Election
The piece notes ongoing party realignment with Democrats and Republicans in disagreement on key issues and hopes for clearer labels after the next election. It references British Conservatives debating a name change and public mockery by Sir Hartley Shawcross who called them neo-Nazis, a stark contrast to his wartime charges against Nuremberg criminals.
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Hartley Bhancress
Decontrol Drives Up Prices and Antarctic High Jump Planned
Price hikes sweep sectors from farm implements to radios and cars as decontrol loosens ceilings. International Harvesters raises farm equipment costs nine percent while Zenith Radio adds up to twenty percent. GM and Crosley boosted car prices by a hundred dollars. Landlords seek a fifteen percent rent rise amid 18 million units under control. Byrd leads a 4000-man Antarctic High Jump contingent for scientific surveys starting in December with 12 ships and multiple aircraft.
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Richard E. Byrd
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Panama Canal Faces Modernization Under Special Grant
Meteorologists hydrodynamic engineers and ex cavation specialists study altering the canal or building a new waterway to handle heavier ships and reduce atomic warfare risk. Proposals include larger Gatun lake storage, longer locks up to 1500 feet, wider channels, or a new canal with fewer curves, requiring jungle clearing and land rights negotiations with Panama.
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Production Struggle With Peak Demand Urges Longer Hours
Washington reports to meet booming industrial needs the nation must work harder or extend hours. Despite near capacity in basic materials and a 177 percent 1935 base production by September, shortages persist. August income climbs to a record 169.5 billion, with average manufacturing hours at 40.3 per week and pay around 44 dollars.
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Agriculture Department
Peaceful Vermont Village On World Stage
Pownal Center Vermont, a tiny 150 resident farming community, gains fame as a symbol of world peace. The UN Bulletin backs its serene, juke box free streets, church founded 1789, and orderly town meeting with three selectmen. World worries about barb attacks, not their valley’s calm.
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Bomb anniversary noted by scientists in Chicago's 1942 event
The U S Army declares December 2 as the Atomic Age anniversary marking the first nuclear reactor operation at the University of Chicago under the Manhattan Project. Maj. Gen. Groves calls the event a milestone, with a December 2 Chicago meeting by Argonne laboratory and 25 universities planned.
Police Join Collection Craze in Hub Cap Case
Baltimore police seek a hub cap collector after arresting or detaining a person who amassed eight hub caps in one block. The new craze has drawn officers into the hunt, turning crime scene collection into a citywide pursuit.
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Christmas Club Fund Reaches Peak Figure
New York report shows mutual savings banks will pay a record 124,557,404 to 1,761,877 depositors this year. The total is about 13 million more than 1945, with an average distribution of 70.72 dollars per account.
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Mutual Savings Banks
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Aviation Notes Highlight Airport Growth and Events
Former combat fliers form a Philadelphia area pilots club to stay informed and fly together. Glenwood Iowa armory bears a sign with distances to Council Bluffs and Omaha while Montrose Colorado builds a new hangar from salvaged barracks. Sundance Wyoming installs a large air marker, Nevada Missouri opens a municipal hangar with an air circus. Nevada, Missouri and other sites showcase growing aviation culture and education under the GI Bill amid plans for rural airport recreation centers.
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Clarinda
Ray Schenck
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Wyoming
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A General Quiz From The Newspaper Card Set
A set of trivia questions includes dates for sun farm distance from Earth, who said There is always room at the top, the value of the widow's mite in modern money, the common name for Sagittarius, the area of Japan proper, the location of Dutch Harbor, how many US rivers exceed 1,000 miles, and the meaning of emeritus after a name.
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Dutch Harbor
United States
Answers to a set of historical trivia prompts
The statements identify key facts: the sun's aphelion around July 4, Daniel Webster as a statesman, one-fifth of a cent as a coin value, the archer as a zodiac sign, Alaska covering 148,758 square miles, ten rivers in the U S exceeding 1,009 miles, and retirement from active duty with no rank change.
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