Top 1965 Business Highlights Reviewed in New York
A review of 1965 shows rising personal income to 535.9 billion, record consumer spending and savings, strong auto output with 8.85 million cars, and steel strikes. Prices rose in many goods while tax cuts and depreciation relief boosted business. Viet Nam war orders and a Fed rate hike influenced credit costs.
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New York
United Steelworkers
Johnson
Congress
Maine
Texas
Theow Jones
Novemer
Viet Nam
Federal Reserve Board
Voters Urged to Enroll Before Fortune Primary
Officials remind Fortune voters that to change party affiliation before the June primary they must enroll now within the six month enrollment window. City officials say registered voters who have not enrolled or chosen a party may do so by primary day to vote in the primary.
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Sace
Safety nightcaps offered on New Jersey Turnpike and Parkway
On New Year s Eve motorists on New Jersey s Turnpike and Garden State Parkway could visit roadside restaurants for a free drink coffee. The roads sponsor annual safety nightcaps with the Parkway offering tea or milk and toast or a doughnut.
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Woodbridge
N.J
New Jersey
Turnpike
Garden State Parkway
Parkway
Brain growth and adult brain weight across ages
The text notes brain weight varies with age sex race and stature. Growth is rapid in the first three years and remains strong until age seven. Prime male brain weight occurs by about age twenty with females reached earlier. average adult male brain weighs just over three pounds.
Peter Arnett in Viet Nam Coverage of a Dirty War
AP reporter Peter Arnett arrived in Vietnam in 1962 to cover a growing conflict. By 1965 he and sixteen AP colleagues endured ambushes and battles from Song Be to Ia Drang, filing stories and images for American readers amid a dangerous war zone.
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Peter Arnett
Viet Nam
Associated Press
Bernard Rosenberg
Huynh Thanh My
Agriculture Advances On Many Fronts In 1965
In 1965 U S agriculture produced a record crop volume and the highest average farm income. Production rose about 7 percent despite no acreage increase, aided by technology and reduced labor needs. Government payments grew for cotton, wheat and feed grains under a Brannan style scheme amid bipartisan support and farm wage averages rose to 95 cents per hour.
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Washington
Congress
Brannan
Charles F. Brannan
Harry S. Truman
Agriculture Department
Federal Treasury
American Farm Bureau Federation
Mexico
U.S
Geneva
New England Vignettes From Boston AP
An assortment of brief items: a 125-ton locomotive sunk at the mouth of the Piscataqua River since 1939 will be recovered or moved, with a low bid of 31,174 dollars. a cat named Lopez at a town hall inspires a 50 dollar annual food fund. Harvard police chief Tonis presides over 10,000 officers and 55 security staff, noting ongoing thefts and protests. a Ben Hill joke ski offer in Shirley attracts inquiries. a Springfield teen advertises a pet piranha for 50 dollars, warning of its danger to cleaners and plans to sell it for oceanography studies.
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Howard H. Mason
Boston
New England
Portsmouth Harbor
New Hampshire
Berwick
Maine
Piscataqua
Braintree
Mass
Lope
Lopez
Town Hall
Gerard McMorris
Ben Hill
Shirley
Benjamin Hill
Todd Baldwin
Benjamin ‘Hill
Worcester
Charles A. Hill
Benjamin Bowker Hill
Springfield
James McDowell
Amazon River
Jimmy
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Fortune
Kenya
Princeton
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
Institute For Advanced Study
Schlesinger
Nairobi
Ke‘nya
Baltimore, Md
Roland Fleming
Fleming
Baltimore
Berkeley
Calif
John Papaconstantinou
University of Connecticut
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Alet
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Song Be
Duc Co
Zone D
An Khe
Bien Hoa
Chu Lai
Ia Drang Valley
The
Biddeford-Saco
Harvard
Robert Tonis
FBI
Harvard Yard
Yonis
Tonis
George Wallace
Alabama
Walama
Wallace
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