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...heaviest floods in over 100 years burst over Missouri River banks last June, destroying lives, crops, property, and running up a tremendous bill of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The floods also brought swift and angry demands from Missouri Valley citizens for relief action by the penny-wise U. S. Congress which had cut river control funds early in 1947. So once again, Congress found itself faced with the perplexing problem of what to do with the Missouri River. The piecemeal sandbag method evidently wasn't working. But although President Truman called for an ambitious program...
...Truman schedule was at its heaviest on Army Day. Shortly after noon, the President put on his morning clothes, went to the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church to attend the funeral of Maurice C. Latta, executive clerk at the White House since the McKinley Administration. The President was fond of Maurice Latta, a dour but efficient man. As the brief service ended, Harry Truman brushed a tear from...
Customers, shelling out on the prospect that programs would improve before the novelty wore off, were going heaviest for table sets with 10-in. screens (most popular models: a $339.50 Philco, a $375 RCA). But the smaller 7-in. screen models, such as the $179.95 Motorola, the cheapest set, were right behind...
Observers wondered whether the Army was any better set to fight a cold war than it had been before. Movement was slow. Clothing, equipment, chutes and arms made 300-lb. sloths of average-sized men. The heaviest artillery dropped was 75-mm. cannon, and it was set up too slowly by numbed fingers. Firepower would have to be heavier, said the experts, and it would have to be parachuted down in one piece...
Four University economists yesterday branded President Truman's new tax-reduction proposal as an inflationary measure that will weigh heaviest on low income groups...