Refugees From Behind Iron Curtain Aid U S Army
The United States Army employs more than 1,000 veterans from the Russian Red Army and other satellite forces, most now refugees behind the Iron Curtain. They provide first hand data on Soviet tactics for training and instruction, with true names kept secret to protect families back home. They may qualify for citizenship after five years of service and help explain bayonet tactics, infiltration, camouflage, and mine laying to American GIs.
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Washington
United States Army
Red Army
United States
Funeral miscue and a resurrection morning joke
A preacher at a funeral misidentified a man named John Brown during his sermon about George Brown. The mix up caused shock, but the community forgave the error. A separate tale tells of a wife who enlisted an undertaker to stage a mock burial to cure her drunk husband, who wakes at dawn and jokes about resurrection.
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Texas
George Brown
George
John
John Grown
John Brown
Old John
New Course for Love Quietly Spreads in Soviet Satellites
A fragment from News from Behind the Tren Curtain notes a shift in Soviet satellite societies toward a more relaxed view of romance. The New Course supposedly permits affection as long as it does not threaten state productivity, a departure from older strictures that tied personal life to party goals.
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Free Europe Committee
Marx
Lenin
Stalin
Malenkov
Hell
Verse and Sea Deliver the Dead for Judgment
The passage notes that the sea gave up the dead and death and hell delivered up the dead, who were judged by their deeds. This aligns with a biblical scene of final judgment where every person is judged according to their works.
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Hell
Love and Romance Crossed the Line in Street Meetings
The report describes how attendees at street committee meetings observed furtive glances and whistle reactions between male and female comrades. It notes surreptitious footsie, a slowly shifting view on love and family, and a move from rigid doctrine toward accepting personal relationships as natural alongside socialist ideals.
Home Show Star Sue Godfrey Drives Dallas Exhibit Rise
Sue Godfrey, wife of Grover Godfrey, renowned home show producer, has built a notable career as special counselor across the Southwest. She has supervised the Dallas National Home Show for nine years and expanded the Dallas show to become one of the ten top home shows nationwide through enthusiasm and cooperative spirit.
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Sue Godfrey
Southwest
Grover Godfrey
They Gebets
Godfrey
Dallas
el Paso
Corpus Chiiali
Waca
Little Rock
Beaumont
New Orleans
Salt
Lake City
Shreveport
Capitol Worried About Treasury Balance in 100 Years Ago
Washington report recalls a treasury balance near 1 million and editorials on inflation. Navy buys scrubbing brushes and butter, while ads note lost wallet with promissory notes. Agriculture touts four new wheat varieties as Congress idle. Franklin Pierce found in pleasant confines. old notices copied from other papers. Light business ads show 500 annual rent near Treasury and billiard license refund for a closed business.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
National Treasury
Department of Navy
J. Thompson
Thompson
Fth
Congress
Department
Franklin Pierce
New England
California
Renr
Department of Treasury
F. St
B. F. Stewart
Stewart
1954 Norway private cars and U S center facts
The note lists that 702,389 privately owned automobiles existed in Norway at the end of 1954. It mentions the geographical center of the United States near Lebanon, Kansas, and Michigan's land and water areas as 48,216 square miles and 1,194 square miles respectively. It also states the prairie dog is not a dog but a rodent.
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Norway
The
United States
Lebanon, Kan
Michigan
Quick Knowledge Grab Bag Answers
A collage of trivia with questions and quick facts. Mountain region: Ozark range across Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma. Paucity means a smallness of quantity. The poem line refers to James Russell Lowell. The pictured person on a fifty dollar bill is Ulysses S. Grant. Additional items identify Thomas Mor Hor or similar, a list of historical dates and people, and a puzzle style set of names and roles.
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Harold Bell Wright
Montreyin
Moravia
Ozark Mountains
Misouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
James Russell Lowell
Mexander Hamilton
Monrovia
Liberia
Czechoslovakia
Paulp Clarke
Paul Weston
Reynolds and Ickes fought over aluminum plants deal
Washington’s Reynolds Metals faced pressure from Harold Ickes and government officials to enter the aluminum business. Reynolds finally yielded after arguments over government loans, power rates, and stock purchases. A later hearing questioned whether small manufacturers received a fair share of the 150 million pounds freed from stockpiles, with Reynolds defending the deal as financed by private credit and repaid in full.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Harold Ickes
Interior
Europe
Ickes
Richard Reynolds
Reynolds Metals
Reynolds
Aluminum Corporation of America
Booneville
Jess Larson
General Services Administration
Raynards
Alcoa
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser
Uncle Sam
Joss Larson
Reynolds Company
Prion
Robert Terson
Buyr Company
Gayment
House
Small Business Committee
Larson
America
Richard Reynolds, Jr
Sidney Yates
Ilinois
RFC
Yates
MR. Reynolds
Crogs
Try And Stop Me By Bennett Cerf
Irate customer complains about coffee that tastes like ice glue while a waiter jokes the drink is coffee. A termite observes a Venetian blind inspection and quips about mechanization and “liveadyliced” service in a dry college comic style.
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Kenneth Tynan
England
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Mel Heimer
Mary McCarthy
Tynith
Miss McCarthy
Sullivan Street
West Side
Dimensions
Alcoholics Anonymous
Allie
Carl Hayden
Arizona
Thomas C. Hennings
Missouri
Herbert H. Lehman
Warren G. Magnuson
Wayne Horse
Oregon
Ane
Louis N. Moore
National Capital Housing Authority
Moore
Sun News Desk
By Preston Pendergrass
Che Baytown
Lunt
Baytown Sun, Inc
Pearce and Ashbel
Baytown
Weed Hartman
Syd
Gould
Beulah Mae Jackson
Armed Services
Exes
Helional
Harry Boyd
Elmer Wheeler
Cowen
Capitol
Treasury
Feiaous
Oliver Koz Oln
PRISM
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John Smith
Jamestown
Benjamin Franklin
Kfle
Lidice
Reinhard Heydrich
der Henker
the Hangman
Polke of Fame
India
Joseph
Suspense
Mr. Keen
Tracer
Springfield
Mass
Dartmouth College
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Pat Harris
Tommy Dorsey
Tve
Bob Crosby
APA
Joan Davis
Harry Flond Byrd
Virginia
Frederick Jagel
Judy Garland
June Haver
By Bennett Cerf
Paxbell
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