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...Government ordered the railroads to cut services. Cities around the U.S. worried about heat & light. The steel industry had reason to fear a complete shutdown. With 370,000 miners out on strike, the nation was down to a meager two-week supply of soft coal. Much as he disliked it, Harry Truman finally had to invoke the Taft-Hartley...
...hard-won cash to buy a sturdy little 175-ft. patrol craft, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted her white sides a dark battleship grey, and set sail for the Pacific...
...eagerness to clutch everybody by the lapel and talk about the new 1950 models, the Ford Dealers of America last week bought up the" commercial time on 23 unsponsored shows on two radio networks, CBS and Mutual. In case any listener misses the point, Ford plans to follow its two-week radio barrage with a similar television drumfire. Besides its regular TV shows (the CBS Ford Theater and NBC Kay Kyser show), Ford commercials will pour from five sustaining shows on all four networks. Said Ford Vice President L. D. Crusoe of the unprecedented $500,000 radio & TV splurge...
...overly concerned by the pollsters findings, Millikin stoutly predicted that "any Republican candidate for the Senate in Colorado will win ... in 1950." But he was worried enough to take a tip from Ohio's Taft. Last week Gene Millikin was off on a two-week tour, renewing old friendships and cultivating new votes in his home state...
...formula used towards these aims is to place each American student in the home of a foreign family with a boy or girl his or her age. After one month of living with families, 10 American boys and girls invite their 10 hosts on a two-week walking, cycling, or camping trip. The final two weeks are spent doing something of particular interest, such as attending the Shakespeare Festival or the Salzburg concerts...