Show O p. p January r 15 Ford IS-Ford Ford Motor company reduces reduces re reo re- re duces prices on passenger passenger passenger ger cars 15 to 50 in effort effort ef fort to to halt Insane spiral of mounting costs and rising prices 23 Potato 23 Potato growers authorized to dump 20 million bushels of low-grade low potatoes stored under government support price-support plan February 4 Largest 4 narcotic seizure In nine years made in New York when federal agents find worth of heroin in possession posses sion of U. U S S. S seaman returning from France 7 Coldest 7 Coldest temperature ever recorded on North American continent 81 degrees below zero registered at Snag nag airport In Canadian Yukon 12 Navy 12 Navy discloses new rapid fire cannons installed on heavy cruiser Newport News are arc fully Cully automatic inch eight rifles rilles with three times Umes firepower of previous previous pre pre- I armament 16 Survey 16 Survey shows average teachers teacher's salary in U. U S. S Is 37 weekly and teachers teach teach- ers have left schools since 1940 March l 16 Margaret 16 Truman the thc Presidents President's I daughter sings on radio in debut with Detroit symphony I April 6 Tuberculosis G death rate In U U. U S. S hits lowest level in history at per 12 12 vo Two die of smallpox in New York City Mayor ODwyer asks all New Yorkers to be vaccinated I 15 Reynolds IS-Reynolds Reynolds Bombshell converted army bomber sets unofficial around the world flight record by covering I miles in 78 hours 55 minutes May l 7 Oklahoma 7 State Sen Thomas Thom s Anglin AnFlIn shot in hip by State Rep James Scott in senate chamber Scott is adjudged In In in- sane 17 Stock 17 Stock market mark t prices slump to lowest point since January 1945 on reports of buyer resistance and slowing business activity June 11 New ll-New New secret weapon called as effective effective tive as atom bomb but cheaper to make malte announced by Prof T. T D. D J. J Leech of New Zealand It reputedly Is some kind of electrical death rn ray 24 Freak Frcak Freak snowstorm In Wyoming Montana border region piles plies up foot 15 drifts Three workmen smothered In Ln snow- snow burled buried truck 28 General 28 General Eisenhower declares U. U S. S army Is now a poor second to Rus Rus- sias July JulyS July'S 5 S- S Flying 5 discs reported by airlines crew over Emmett Ida leads to frenzy of similar stories of oC discs over other states 11 Employment ll-Employment in U. U S S. S passes 60 CO million figure set as Ideal by Henry Wallace 27 27 Gallup Gallup poll reports 51 per cent of voters would vote for Truman for President 49 per cent for Dewey August Augustl l 19 More 19 More than a third 35 per cent of veterans veterans veter veter- ans who entered college under GI 01 bill of rights have dropped out of of school V VA A reports 23 New 23 New minor planet discovered by University Uni of California It Is 10 miles mUes in tn diameter million miles from tom sun 30 30 Radio Radio tube almost as small as ns a grain of rice developed September Cyclotron Y 9 at University of California produces non explosive fission of tantalum tanta lum um thallium platinum lead and his bis muth Scientists also discover diamonds are sensitive radio-sensitive and nd make excellent counters of radioactivity radio 18 Department 18 of agriculture reports that 70 cents of every consumer dollar spent on meat now goes to farmer compared with with 51 cents in 1939 27 27 27 rapid digital automatic computation computation com may b be basis basis of defense for rocket weapons reports Presidential Scientific entitle Research board l October 5 Beulah S-Beulah Beulah and Bud Gollum Gol Gol- lum Ium acquitted on charge charee of murdering Beulah's Beulahs s parents In yacht explosion 30 Plot 30 Plot to obtain atomic bomb secrets revealed revealed re re- In n senate Inquiry into Hollywood communism November 3 Dealers 3 Dealers blame rumors of nylon stockIng stock stock- Ing shortage on radio commentators and newspaper columnists 11 Russia 11 Russia reported to have exploded atomic bomb In tests U. U S S. S scientists scientists doubt I possibility 19 Decommissioned 19 19 battleship New Mexico reaches Junkyard In Newark N N. J. J J. J for sera scrapping In after alter after week of ludicrous batI battling bat I I thing with fireboats and writs |