Farm Bureau Opens 3 Day Dallas Meet
The 32nd annual American Farm Bureau federation opens in Dallas with talks on war inflation and labor shortages shaping agenda. Henry Ford II and Senator Allen Ellender among speakers as commodity conferences begin, including field crops at 2 45 p m CST.
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American Farm Bureau Federation
Henry Ford, II
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
United States
O. W. Wells
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Associated Women
AFB
Federation
Heart-Lung Device Built For Sixty Dollars In Lab
A Fels institute team at Antioch college announces an artificial heart-lung or oxygenator ready for human use costing about 60 dollars. The device has no moving parts, uses EM gas valves, is all glass, weighs under four pounds and auto adjusts pumping rate, offering advantages over a Philadelphia device with a mechanical pump.
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Yellow Springs
Ohio
Fels Institute For Study of Human Development
Antioch College
Hahnemann Hospital
Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Cleveland
Leland C. Clark Jr
Fels
Lester W. Sontag
Institute
Red CrossAllocates Training Funds for Civil Defense Nurses
The American Red Cross announced an initial allotment of 35000 to train one million people in home nursing as part of the civil defense program. The first funds will aid rural areas by training nursing instructors, drawn from Jane A. Delano’s bequest to the organization.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Jane A. Delano
Red Cross Nursing Services
Portland Oregonian Sold for $5 Million to NY Publisher
New York publisher Samuel I Newhouse buys the Portland Oregonian for cash in a deal valued at over 5 million dollars. The sale includes the newspaper its plant and goodwill while KGW radio remains outside the transaction. The Oregonian will join Newhouse holdings alongside several major papers including Newark Star Ledger and Syracuse Post Standard.
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Portland Oregonian
New York
Samuel I. Newhouse
Newhouse
The
Oregonian
Presi
Newark
N. J
Staten Island Advance
Jersey Journal of
Jersey City
Nine Men Given Nobel Prizes in Stockholm and Oslo
Nobel ceremonies honored nine laureates including American author William Faulkner for literature and Dr. Ralph J. Bunche for peace. Other winners were Dr. Philip Hench and Dr. Edward Kendall for medicine, Bertrand Russell for literature, Cecil Powell for physics, Otto Diels and Kurt Adler for chemistry, and Tadeusz Reichstein for medicine. The awards total nearly $200,000.
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Stockholm
Oslo
Norway
Alfred Nobel
William Faulkner
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
Philip S. Hench
Bertrand Russell
Cecil F. Powell
Britain
Bristol University
Otto Diels
Kurt Adler
Tadeusz Reichstein
University of Basel
Switzerland
Hench
Kendall
Bunche
Sweden
Gustav VI
Faulkner
UN Shoulder Insignia Worn By Korean War Correspondents
War correspondents covering the Korean conflict wear the UN shoulder insignia for the first time in history signaling official alignment with United Nations forces. The move marks a notable shift in press coverage and battlefield identification during the crisis.
Prince Loses Out on Estate Distribution
In Vancouver a Persian prince and his sister lose their claim to part of a 359000 dollar estate of their grandfather the deposed Shah of Persia. A New York surrogate court ruling directs the trust fund to the shahs four living half siblings.
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Vancouver
B. C
Shah of Persia
New York
Sultan Ahmed Kadjar
Hussein Kadjar
Gully Kadjar
Shah
France
Malekeh-Djahan
Portia Law School Pioneered Women’s Legal Education
The Portia Law School in Boston Massachusetts became the first law school globally dedicated to educating women in the field of law.
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Portia Law School
Boston
Mass
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