Car Industry To Stress Safety In 1956 Models
Detroit reports the auto industry will push safety features in 1956 models as sales points. Expect seat belts, safety beam headlamps, power brakes and steering, larger glass areas, and better visibility. Chevrolet notes tests linking horsepower to safety, arguing quicker response can avoid collisions as industry shifts focus from speed to safety.
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Rey W. Brune
Detroit
Aug
Chrysler Corporation
Ford Motor Co
General Motors
Buick
Dearborn
T. H. Keating
Chevrolet
Floods Swamp 10000 Acres of Colorado Farm Land
Beavers Creek flood crest moved northward toward Brush Colorado inundating hundreds of farms. More than 10000 acres under water at midnight and 150 farm families evacuated from land south of Brush. At least one person was presumed dead as cloud bursts south of Brush unleashed heavy damage to crops hay and roads. A wedding party or other named individuals appear in the text. Firemen rescued a man from a car on a bridge while his wife was carried away and drowned. The flood also closed U S 31 and damaged bridges and roads near Last Chance Morrison and Red Rocks.
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Colo
Beaver Creek
Plains
Godworth
Last ‘Chance
U.S. 31
Gary
Nathan Eb, Escott
Marion
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Last Chance
Woodworth
Cheyenne Canyon
Colorado Springs
Rocky Mountains
Seven Falls
de Caferane Springs
Bear Creek
Turkey Creek
Denver
Morrison
Mt. Vernon Creek
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Aly Khan Seeks Visit With Daughter in Court
In Reno Nevada an attorney for Prince Aly Khan asked a court to allow 11 weeks with daughter Princess Yasmin for a court ordered visit. The move contends Yasmin should be with Aly Khan under the 1954 divorce terms while Aly is in France.
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Reno, Nev
Prince Aly Khan
Rita Hayworth
Aly
Princess Yasmin
Kenneth Dillon
Yasmin
Miss Hayworth
France
Aspirin and other drugs top child poisoning risks
The 1955 Accident Facts yearbook from the National Safety Council highlights aspirin and sulliculates as the leading drug killers for young children, with sedatives and other household medicines in reach posing major dangers. Accidental poisoning remains a leading cause of death for children under five, with drugs, petroleum products, and external-use products accounting for most fatalities.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
New ultra thin metal aids U S miniaturization drive
Monroe Sherman of Flushing New York leads a growing enterprise making metal strips five ten-thousandths of an inch thick for radar and other modern electronics. His ultra thin material, produced by American Silver, enables reduced size and weight in radios missiles and defense components. He rose from laborer to president and built a defense oriented business after wartime metal restrictions.
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Central Press Association
New York
Eiver
Monroe Sherman
Flushing
N.Y
Sherman
American Silver Company
Horatio Alger
Pearl Harbor
Ten New Linwood Homes Nearing Completion in Brownwood
Linwood Park, one of Brownwood's newest subdivisions, shows fifteen houses under construction and six completed. The 37-lot development near Scott Bay will feature brick homes priced 15 000 to 16 000 dollars, with two baths, three bedrooms, central heating, a two car garage, and options for air conditioning.
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U. S
Forrestal
Newport News
International
Linwood Park
Brownwood
Charles R. Best
Bay~town Developers Inc
Scott Bay
J. F. Milner
U.S. Farm Population Falls by Three Million
Washington report estimates the farm population at 22.15 million, about three million fewer than 1950, comprising roughly 13.5 percent of the total population.
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U.S
Washington
New Device Squeezes More Gasoline From Crude Oil
Shell Co. has started operation at its Houston refinery of a new electronic device derived from the mass spectrometer. The instrument identifies two to three times as many chemical compounds in petroleum, enabling potential improvements in quality and increases in gasoline tube oils and waxes produced. Designed and built by Consolidated Engineering Corp of Pasadena after a year of testing with Shell researchers at Houston.
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Shels Co
Houston
William A. Bailey Jr
Esearch
Shell
Electronica
Conaolidated Engineering Corporation
Pasadena
Calif
Shell of Company
Industry To Award College Students New York Trips
Industry to award two southwestern college sophomores all expense paid trips to New York for the December Congress of American Industry at the Waldorf Astoria. If two go, one may win a two year $1,000 scholarship. Four industrial apprentices from Oklahoma Texas Louisiana and Mississippi will receive certificates and prizes for their efforts. Scholarship nominees are limited to business administration science engineering or mathematics students.
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Houston
Southwestern College
New York
Congress of American Industry
Waldrot Astoria Hotel
William F. Brain
Southwestern
National Association, of Manufacturers
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Brain
NAM
South
Southeast
Southwest
Leaves Sunday On Denver Trip
Washington The White House said President Eisenhower will depart by plane Sunday afternoon for a work and play vacation in Denver Colorado. After arriving he will visit the Fraser ranch of Askel Mielsen for about a week of trout fishing then return east by August 24 to address the American Bar Association in Philadelphia. He plans to fly from Gettysburg to Washington on Thursday and stay through Friday with cabinet meetings before heading back to Gettysburg and then returning here for the Denver trip.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Denver
Colo
White House
Fraser, Colo
Askel Mielsen
Gettysburg
American Bar Association
Philaelphia
Higher Wages Higher Prices in Meat Industry
The American Meat Institute warned that wage increases in the packing industry could raise cut prices. It said wage hikes by several packers might set a pattern for the industry and push total annual costs to about 50 million dollars.
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Chicago
American Meat Institute
The
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