General Assembly Opens as UN Delegates Converge at Town Hall
Washington notes opening of the United Nations General Assembly with reflections on world peace, translation quirks, and debates over governance. Highlights include discussions of the permanent peace committee, mistranslations influencing Korea, and the election contest between Aranha and Evatt affecting votes. Mrs. Pandit Nehru and Eleanor Roosevelt emerge as prominent figures at the sessions.
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Washington
United Nations General Assembly
Quebec
Assembly
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
United States
Rio
Evatt
Australia
Aranha
Russia
Latin- America
Pandit Nehru
Eleanor Roosevelt
Truman Urges Food Conservation for Europe Aid
President Truman proposes a nationwide food conservation program to curb price spirals as Europe faces critical food shortages. He names Charles Luckman of Lever Brothers to head a citizens food committee and signals possible rapid aid measures without a special Congress session. The U.N. General Assembly opens with debates on Palestine partition, Balkans peace, Korea independence, and reform of UN machinery.
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Truman
Europe
U. S
Citizens Food Committee
Charles Luckman
Cambridge
Mass
Lever Brothers
Congress
Headlines From Camden to Hollywood and Back
A Camden court hears Joseph Valentino on a misperceived marriage claim and gives 10 days. In Houston, Lt General Eaker transitions to civilian life as Hughes Tool Company VP. In Hamilton Ontario, Mrs. Marshall Lounsbury buys Palm Sunday Morn ing by Cal fano for a song at auction. Pittsburgh council acts to repair sidewalks after fashion changes raise spills. An old note from Eleanor Roosevelt and Hanns Eisler’s passport saga draw broad press interest, while Eisler earns visas, becomes a songwriter in Hollywood, and seeks U. S. naturalization. Roosevelt defends the note as routine.
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Camden
N. J
Joseph Valentino
McGhee
Miss McGhee
Houston
Tra C. Eaker
U. S. Air Forces
Hughes Tool Company
Hamilton
Sumner
Elsler
Sumner Welles
House Committee On un-American Activities
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hanns Hitler
Gerhart Hisler
Kremlin
U. S
Eisler
Mexico City
Hollywood
Hisler
Communist Party
Department of Labor
Hanns Eisler
Roosevelt
Welles
Blame and Belief in Inflation Rise and Farm Policy
The essay assigns responsibility for rising prices to greed and antitrust profit. It argues price controls were needlessly eliminated, defends farm price supports as largely costless, and notes export and stockpile dynamics. It cites Wheat Corn Hog prices and parity, contrasting U S price policy with Canada while highlighting postwar farm economics.
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Will Lang
OPA
Congress
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Taft
Wherry
GOP
Chicago
Six Billion Dollars in Farm Cooperatives Trade
Farm cooperatives moved six billion dollars in the 1845-46 marketing year, led by 2,256 grain coops with 1.48 billion in business. Minnesota topped states with 606,000 member farmers, while California led dollar volume at 52 million. Grains and related marketing coops totaled 1.49 billion in volume.
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America
Farm Credit Administration
Department of Agriculture
FCA
Ga House
Coop
Minnesota
IlLnoig
Wisconsin
California
Grand Cowled Dam spillway creates immense Columbia River flood
A spillway on the Grand Cowled dam along the Columbia River in Washington generates a waterfall five times Niagara’s average flow and three times its height, surpassing regional water output and shaping local hydrology.
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Grand Cowled Dam
Columbia River
Washington
Niagara Falls
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Poland
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Panbi
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Mrs. Roosevelt
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Trygve Lie
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Balkans
Andrei Vishinsky
Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito
Joseph B. Kennan
International War Crimes Tribunal
Eleanor
Mrs. Roosevelt Hanns Eisler
Helatien
Canada
Sprice
Windsor
Eet
Fleischmann
Menfolka
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Locke Stove Company
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