Amazing Airlift Ends Berlin Blockade Triumph
The Berlin airlift concludes as Western forces surpass 10 000 tons daily with a record 12 940 tons delivered in one day. From June 1948 to autumn the operation fed and supplied 2 250 000 Berliners, despite rising costs and casualties, proving U S and British resolve in the face of Soviet pressure.
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Russia
Berlin
Clay
USAF
RAF
America
United States
Britain
Germany
World Trade Week Urges Global Exchange For Prosperity
President proclaims World Trade Week starting May 22 and chambers of commerce push education on how foreign trade shapes daily life. Advocates say postwar growth depends on selling surplus abroad and buying from others, fostering full employment, fair exchange, and international peace.
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Chambers of Com
Johnny Appleseed Memorial Planned for Fort Wayne Grave
Fort Wayne plans a memorial park around Johnny Appleseed’s grave after a teacher, Robert C. Harris, urged restoration. Harris criticizes the site as a forgotten graveyard and calls for a park atop the cemetery hill above the St. Joseph River before Appleseed Day on May 20. The iconic pioneer traveled from Massachusetts to plant apple trees and aid settlers, earning a legacy of benevolence and practicality.
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John Chapman
Johnny Appleseed
Pioneer Midwest
Fort Wayne
Ind
Robert C. Harris
Archer Cemetery
Mr. Harris
St. Joseph River
Massachusetts
Fort Duquesne
Pittsburgh
Ohio River
Mansfield
Mt. Vernon
West
Ohio Valley
Virginia Senators Vote No On Housing Bill
The Richmond Times Dispatch notes two Virginia senators Robertson and Byrd opposed the housing bill amid criticism of socialist schemes. It cites five reasons against it including taxpayer burden, insufficient aid to the lowest income, no clear slum clearance condition, a large subsidy framework, and a projected vast subsidy cost if extended.
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Virginia
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Senate
House
Senator Robertson
Byrd
Mrs Hugh Peters Returns Home After Visit
Mrs. Hugh Peters returns to her home at 229 West Boscawen Street after visiting her mother in Ridley Park Pennsylvania. Percey Miller of Miller and Anderson donates six thousand dollars to Memorial hospital. City jail bids opening yields a one hundred forty seven thousand dollar bid.
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Hugh Peters
W. Boscawen St
Ridley Park
Percey Miller
Miller and Anderson
Memorial Hospital
U S Naval Airmen Attack Kuriles and PTA Election News
In 1944 five years ago, U S naval airmen attacked Faramashire in the Kuriles while Allies pounded anti invasion defenses on the French coast. Stonewall PTA elected L F Dorsey president and Betty Jo Halterman won a record collection contest sponsored by the American Legion.
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U. S
Faramashire
Kuriles
French
Stonewall Pta
L. F. Dorsey Presi
Betty Jo Halterman
American Legion
Poland Rejects German Demands over Danzig Corridor
Ten years earlier in 1939 Poland stood firm against German pressure for Danzig and a corridor to the sea. Rudy Crisman, former Handley athlete, threw the shot 45 feet 6 inches for the University of Tennessee. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth dined on Virginia ham in Washington.
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Poland
Danzig
Rudy Crisman
Handley
University of Tennessere
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Virginia
Washington
Fox shooting legality questioned in 1924 note
In a 1924 reply, Game Warden F. L. Pingley tells a complainant woman that he has never stated fox shooting illegal. The item also notes Henry 8S. Boyd's death while plowing and mentions plans for an autumn apple fete and palace exhibit.
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F. L. Pingley
Henry
Boyd
Widow Mary Crocetti Runs Major Tile Firm in New York
Mrs. Mary Crocetti, 50, heads a $1 million a year tile contracting company and oversees an $80 million Brooklyn Manhattan tunnel project with 9117 feet of clay tile ceilings. She became owner after her husband’s 1943 death and manages estimating and scheduling with two trusted aides while praising her Italian workforce and balancing family ties with the business.
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New York
Mary Crocetti
Brooklyn
Manhattan
United States
Bronx
G. M. Crocetti
Arthur Cavazzi
Reno
Strength For The Day By Earl L. Douglas
A piece extols religious conversion as a boost to intellect. It cites Dwight L. Moody’s improved mind after conversion and tells of a British soldier who rose from obscurity, walked eight miles daily for study, faced exams, and became a leader, guided by the verse Behold, I have set before thee an open door.
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Dwight L. Moody
Madras University
How's Your I Q How to Score Based on 100 Questions
A test scoring guide lists daily results from 9 to 10 correct equals 2 Mem ory Genius, 7 or 8 Very Superior, 6 Excellent, 4 Good with ten sample questions covering diplomacy, language signals, the 1940s era, wartime terms, historical figures, a Churchill speech, breed names, Hoffman, metal alloy printing, and the biblical giant slayer.
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United States
India
U. S
Montana
DNB
George Biet
Institution of Learning
Cambridge
Mass
Winston Churchill
Paul G. Hoffman
Goliath
Fifty Cent Word in Medicine
The article explains diverticula and diverticulum in the esophagus stomach and duodenum with symptoms such as food sticking throat pressure and gurgling sounds. It notes diagnosis by X ray and treatment including diet and possible operation, and mentions age ranges and rare stomach diverticula.
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King
Prayer Letter From Reader Promises Healing
A reader letters page from M. B. Weil of Los Angeles requests prayers for readers who write with self addressed stamped envelopes. Weil states many readers report healing and thanks God, offering to publish more letters at no charge.
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the Star
M. B. Weil
South
Kenmore Ave
Los Angles
California
Factory Talk Irks Russian Paper
Berlin May 4 The Maerkische Volksstimme a Potsdam based Communist newspaper says workers in the Russian occupied eastern Germany talk too much during working hours and damage national property. It claims 12 minutes daily lost per worker totaling 300 million marks per year. It notes a 1848 U.S. women's rights movement grew from the anti slavery struggle.
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Berlin
Germany
Maerkische Volksstimme
Potsdam
Repair of Cable Near Guam completes 8 month job
Commercial Pacific Cable Co reports completing an eight month repair of its cable line 450 miles east of Guam at a depth of 3.4 miles. The break occurred last September on the rim of an extinct undersea volcano, not known at the time the line was laid in 1903. Restorer and John W Mackay located the break and diverted the cable around the crater at 1.7 miles deep.
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Manila
Commercial Pacific Cable Co
Guam
Midway
Restorer
John W. Mackay
Libby and Jane clash over life plans and marriage
Libby confronts Jane about independence and truth as Beatrice watches a fractured family unravel. Jane declares she will live for herself while Libby contemplates forgiveness and a moral rearmament of society. Beatrice prepares for Porter and contemplates her own place and risks.
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Libby
Jane
Helen
Daddy
Beatrice
Ives
Margaret Gormas
Marianne
Porter
Frances
Bonnie Watson
Macrae-Smits Company
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