Job-Making Treadmill and the Sixties Employment Challenge
The piece outlines 4.7 million unemployed, 1.5 million older workers displaced annually, and 1.25 million youths entering the labor pool. It argues automation creates a persistent unemployment core while Kennedy calls full employment the era’s major domestic challenge.
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Kennedy
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Hwan Clague
Organized Labor
United States Chamber of Commerce
Coexistence Denounced by Soviet Leader At Conference
Mikhail Suslov told Soviet educators that there can be no coexistence with Western ideology. He characterized United States ideology as imperialist bourgeoisie and warned against any compromise with it. A condensed Pravda version carried the remarks to readers in Moscow.
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Mikhail A. Suslov
Soviet Union
Suslov
Frol R. Kozlov
Khrushchev
United States
Pravda
Communist Party
Moscow
Unconventional St Louis housing chief loses post
Burt Steingruby 43 of St Louis, a housing project manager, accepted part rent from tenants and covered the shortfall himself. He supported a family of five on $600 a month and lent tenants about $1000 they could not repay. The Housing Authority suffered no loss but called him unconventional.
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Burt Steingruby
St. Louis
Steingruby
Housing Authority
Land warrants awarded for Revolutionary War service through 1855
Congress issued land warrants to reward military service, including Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, allowing purchase of 120 acres at 1.25 dollars per acre. Warrants totaled 65 million acres, 61 million taken. The first bonus closes with only 1000 acres claimed in seven years as warrants become historical documents.
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Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
David Taylor Model Basin Tales of Toy Ships
Jim Bishop chronicles the David W. Taylor Model Basin in Carderock Maryland where admirals test scale models of warships. He details the 1940s era work, torpedo and carrier tests, and a famous launching that ended on a mudbank despite experts predicting success.
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Carderock
David W. Taylor
U. S. Naval Academy
British Royal Naval College
U. S
Young Taylor
Taylor Basin
U. S. Navy
Washington
David Taylor
Enbinet
The Soviet Universal State Struggles and Leaders Face Off
A reader letter debate analyzes whether Soviet leaders including Khrushchev Mao and Tito manage internal divisions and strategy. It traces historical shifts from Lenin to Stalin and Trotzkyism to explain the clash between ideology and national interests within the Soviet Universal State and its impact on capitalism.
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Stalin
Khrushchev
Tito
Earl Browder
United States
Mao Tze-tung
Marx
Lenin
John Glenn
Mao
Merchants Reply Highlights Athens Parking Efforts
The Athens Retail Merchants Association responds to a letter in The Messenger describing Athens parking issues and notes it was the first to approach officials about public off street parking. It cites past actions including bond support for the Warren building site and efforts to acquire the Union Printing site and more off street lots. The group defends meter changes on Court Street as aimed at quicker turnover and affordable all day city parking at 75 cents.
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the Messenger
Athens Retail Merchants Association
Athens
Millfield
Ohio
Warren
Union Printing Company
Court Street
Per
Athens Retail Merchants, Inc
W. Parker Walker
Athens Messenger
Sunday Messenger
D.&s
W. V
Aily & Gunter
E Messenger Publish! Co
Union St
Banana Sales Gimmick Promoted By Dr Crane
The article promotes using price slips on bananas to rate banana splits as a business gimmick and cites Mrs Crane's Danville visit. It discusses applied psychology in churches and schools and urges readers to request Dr Crane's booklet Modern Sales and Advertising Strategy via a stamped return envelope.
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Jesus
Crane
Danville
Goliath
Jonah-Abraham-David-Peter
Dear Abby readers share quirks and heartache in letters
A stack of Dear Abby inquiries features a cleanliness-obsessed husband, Eskimo nose rubbing curiosity, a bus ride romance tested by courtest, and a breakup over respect for an elderly woman. Abby advises moderation and confirms the breakup as a relief.
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International Workers’ Movement
Theodore Roosevelt
Bacon
Jim Bishop
Hampton Roads
Pacific
Taylor Model Basin
Norfolk
George E. Sokolsky
Robert Groenke, Jr
Cincinnati
Russia
Soviet Russia
Groenke
Soviet Universal
Mr. K
London
Trotzky
N. Straitsville
New Straitsville
Gordon James
David Thomas
Gahanna
Tracy Heft
Rockbridge
Andrew Love
Grace Donoghue
Murray City
James Beattie
Margaret Rushin
Columbus
Margaret Lloyd
Jean
Grace Shaffer
Gerald Baird
Amelia Fickle
Logan
John Spicer
Marion Levingston
James Pierce
Isabell Galbreath
Chillicothe
Galbreath
Walter Thomas
David
Earl Graham
Chilren
Fred Hamilton
Marion
Charles Kemper Jr
David Lloyd
Psychology
Business
George W. Crane
Walgreen
Tuppers Plains
Evelyn Brickles
EUB
Gerald Violet
Grace Smith
EUB Church
Eula Mae Landon
Violet
N. C
Carpenter
Elizabeth Lyons
Lyndell
Eulah Swan
Charles Googlein
Parkersburg St. Joseph Hospital
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Abby
MR. Clean
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