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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1949
Page
3
The piece notes a 50 percent drop in sales of hand lotions shaving creams and other cosmetics as wartime spending fades. Tax fears and subsistence living curb purchases while luxury items still sell if priced right. Local business coverage includes plow makers and new Amarillo ventures alongside regional retail shifts.
M. D. Diden of United States Rubber Company Dallas plant will speak at the Texas Panhandle Chapter Purchasing Agents Association meeting tonight at 7 in the Blackstone Hotel. He will discuss current work at his testing station and present the film The Building of a Tire.
Fifteen University of Massachusetts student veterans received blank Treasury checks and sent them back after learning that filling them in would be a federal offense. Roger Bacon authored a book on alchemy.
Hungarian historian Pivadar Acs claims Columbus was a pirate fleeing a death sentence when discovering America. He cites 160 documents from Hungarian Academy of Sciences archives alleging privateering and a Venetian plot to kill Columbus and his crew, with Bertholomeo paid to assassinate them.
Directors of Producers Grain Corporation announce a two million bushel storage increase at Amarillo. J Frank Triplett says current facility will be doubled once plans are drawn and bids let, though no final plans or bids exist yet. Work may start before year end. total expansion could take two years to complete.
The Amarillo YMCA sponsors a second advanced square dance class at 7:30 PM in Episcopal Hall 815 Fillmore. Registration is open at the door. Instructor is Noble Fowlkes.
Rail way Express reports that the first nine months of 1948 saw 2,969,411 shipments flown by air express in the United States, up 10.4 percent from the same period last year.
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