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Haslett linked to Aviation Distributors and North Amer Airport Corp office and parking lot maintained in city-owned tunnel under Grand Central ramp; Westchester Airport-North Amer Airport Corp connection noted
foremen strike, Rouge plant; 7 demands listed; production crippled; shutdown seen; UAWA members to continue work but refuse foremen jobs; co comments; Edgewater, NJ, plant to close
Truman prepares to sign bill
O'Dwyer sees hotel use as possible judgment error; stresses city responsibility to homeless indigent; 5 families moved from hotels to Munic Lodging House and condemned houses in Bronx
N AFRICA: US Gen Clark articles on secret mission preparatory to '42 Allied invasion of area; dealings with French Adm Darlan described; illus
1947Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.