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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
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Harry S Truman responded; ‘I don’t know and I don’t care. Wasn’t it a pretty blast?’
The Truman created US Office of Price Administration, authorized to act after a 25 day lapse in its activities, by a federal judge appointed by Truman, issued orders restoring price controls, but at a higher rate, effectively raising prices on thousands of items sold in the United States, under the ‘OPA Revival Act’ that had been signed by President Truman the day before. Food prices would not be ‘controlled’ again until December 20th.
At the Anping district of China's Hebei Province, near the village of Hohsiwu, a 300 man force of the Communist People's Liberation Army ambushed a supply convoy of 41 United States Marines. In the battle that followed, four Americans and at least fifteen Chinese died. Truman said; ‘I’m sure that we all regret the temporary ‘misunderstanding.’’
Working under the codename of the Venona project, American cryptanalyst Meredith Gardner was able to make the first breakthrough in a team project to crack the secret codes used by the Soviet Union in its espionage activities in the United States during WWII. After his successful decryption of one encoded phrase within intercepted telegrams, the team was able