Subways and Hidden Tunnels Shaped New York's Underground World
An exploration of the city underworld reveals forgotten dungeons and bootlegger tunnels, while the subway’s early builders faced unknown conditions. The piece notes vast utility networks, the city’s dense underground with 10 million miles of cables, and a transit era legend inspiring the Broadway show Subways Are For Sleeping. It ends with a safety reminder to motorists to treat Stop signs as directives, not warnings.
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Charles West
New York
New York City
Hudson River
Dutch Schultz
William Barclay Parsons
United States
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Bronx
Queens
Tilelet
Fat reducing ODRINEX advertised with guarantee
An ad for ODRINEX promises weight loss in seven days without exercise or drastic changes. It claims appetite suppression and allows standard meals while cutting portions, with a money back guarantee and return policy through Cook & Caslow Drug Store Atlantic Mall.
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Cook & Caslow Drug
Atlantic — Mall
Maj Charles Beck Jr to Speak at Scout Sustaining Day
Maj Charles Beck Jr native of Council Bluffs and future astronaut will speak at the Southwest Iowa Boy Scout council Sustaining Membership Day at Camp Wakonda near Griswold Thursday. The event honors sustaining members who gave at least 10 in 1963. Beck, a Purdue aerodynamics graduate and Edwards AFB pilot, will share air force experiences and how scouting inspired him.
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Charles Beck, Jr
Council Bluffs
Southwest Iowa
Boy Scout Council
Camp Wakonda
Griswold
Southwest Iowa Council
Maj
Bock
Navy
Air Force
Aerospace Research Pilot School
Purdue University
Mas
Geraldine F. Chandler
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Fight Test Center
Camp Wakanda
Iowa governor aircraft budget stalls over pilot control
Governor Hughes faces a funding purchase for a governor plane while a dispute grows over who will pilot it. Adjutant General Miller backs Col Milford Juhl as primary operator, while Hughes favors Weiland who has flown the governor for a year. The bill assigns operation to the military department, but an interim committee can block the purchase without clear ground rules.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Marold Hughes
Junior Miller
Milford Juhl
Jack Weiland
State Personnel Office
Hughes
Weiland
Gen. Miller
Executive Council
Military Department
Miller
Army Aviation
National Guard and
State Guard
Legislative Budget and Financial Control
Local Social News From Englewood to Des Moines
Extra briefs list visits and moves of area families including EXIRA residents Mr. and Mrs. Gary Ean and their son in Englewood, Forrest Daugherty of Waukee visiting Mrs. Eva Hockenbury, and Leon Larsen hosts in Hopkins Missouri with Vernon Petersen and family. Also noted are moves to Des Moines, Kanalja Minn. trips, and property purchases with Mrs Verley Andersen and Mr. Bud Lensch. Motorists urged to obey stop signs.
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Exira
Garyean
Englewood
George Hackwell
Tio Leist
Forrest Daugherty
Waukee
Eva Hockenbury
Leon Larsen
Hopkins
Vernon Petersen
Jim
Harvey Williamson
Franklyn Map
Ray Atherton
Walnut
Ill
Thomas, Godwin
Cynthia
Roy Lile
Verley Andersen
Sam Stehle
Earl of
Denver
Herbert Wahlert
Herb Wahlert, Jr
Laura Bro
Many Americans Lose Money Not Extra Weight
HAL BOYLE surveys quick facts from American life. He notes 300 million dollars spent yearly on weight loss, 74 million silver dollars unused by the U.S. Mint, and diverse bits on history, culture, and economics. He mixed odds and ends from currencies to famous quotes and social tidbits.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Uncle Sam
U.S
Christ
Rue du Faubourg-St. Honore
Paris
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Oliver Herford
Kentucky
John Bunyan
Adolf Hitler
Germany
France
Keebaugh Named Sales Rep for Federated Mutual
Welford L. Keebaugh of 410 Ridgeroad has been named sales representative for Federated Mutual Implement and Hardware Insurance. He completed required sales training and is qualified to represent the company on business and personal lines. Also noted, Italy recorded one highway fatality every 45 minutes last year.
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Welford L. Keebaugh
Ridgeroad
Federated Mutual Implement and Hardware Insurance Company
B. Lull
Said Keebaugh
Italy
Duane Reynolds Wins GE Sales Contest Trip to Louisville
Duane Reynolds, the recent top performer in a GE sales competition, earned a trip to Louisville, Kentucky as the prize. The announcement highlights his achievement and the incentive package awarded to the winner.
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Duane Reynolds
Louisville
Kentucky
Radiation belt increased in 1962 by Soviet blasts
American space scientist Wilmot N. Hess told the Space Science Symposium that the Van Allen radiation belt was temporarily intensified in 1962 by three Soviet high altitude nuclear tests in addition to a U.S. blast. He noted the dosed detections in October and November and said the events expanded knowledge of particle lifetimes and space travel prep.
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Warsaw
Poland
Wilmot N. Hess
Earth
U.S
Hess
Space Science
Caspar
International Committee On Science Research
United States
Pacific
van Allen Belt
Mother Attends One Graduation But Misses Second
Mrs Margaret Shepard of Burrillville Rhode Island attended the Coast Guard Academy graduation in New London Connecticut while a second son was to graduate at West Point New York. Fog in Groton delayed an Army plane used by Lt General Garrison H Davidson delaying takeoff causing her to miss the West Point ceremony.
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Burrillville, RI
Rhode Island
Coast Guard Academy
New London
Garrison H. Davidson
First Army
Margaret Shepard
Burrillville
Groton
Conn
West Point
New Army
John T. Shepard
Sheaffer Pen Co reports record sales and lower earnings
The W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. logged about 31.2 million dollars in sales for the fiscal year ending February 28, with net income of 1.201 million. President Walter A. Sheaffer II attributed the lower earnings to higher spending on research, marketing and merchandising.
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Fort Madison
W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co
Walter A. Sheaffer II
Cadet John T. Shepard Commissioned at West Point
West Point salutes new Army second lieutenant John T. Shepard. The ceremony honored his commission as he joins active duty.
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Bost Canal
Canal Street
Wilken
Chestnut - Atlantic Fine
Wakonda
Charles Beck
Harrison
Weber
Iowa Daily Press
Evan Hultman
Gener
al Hultman
Iowa
Utilities Division
Iowa Commerce Commission
The
Commerce Commission
Appropriations Committee
Commission
Legislative Interim Committee
Arnold H. Glason
Benjamin Franklin
Outer Space
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Md
Stangl Motors
Hursday
Children’s Canvas
Oxfords
Paday Shoe Fit Company
Atlantic News-Telegraph
News-Telegraph
Rious
Electrics Light Power Company
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