Industrial revolution and the automation tide
Bruce Brossay surveys how automation reshapes work as 12 million people out of 180 million produce a vast goods flow. He notes white collar computer systems, expanded services, and government during a period where more is produced by machines, yet demand and wages shift. He warns future labor shortages may require new social innovations to sustain consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerard Piel
Ford Foundation
Fund For the Republic
Piel
Do warnings help on holiday highway deaths
Governor Dempsey questions National Safety Council estimates of holiday highway fatalities. He warns that predictions may urge caution or cause anxiety among motorists. Rosenthal's figures show Memorial Day weekend deaths at 113 per day, while 1958’s yearly average was 106, suggesting holiday rates do not rise with traffic, per capita.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dempsey
Connecticut
National Safety Council
Albert J. Rosenthal
Audubon Opposes Hunting in National Parks Policy
The National Audubon Society rejects hunting in national parks as a policy. Its leader cites parks as sanctuaries for nature and urges preservation, while allowing legal hunting only on private lands or designated public uses. The stance counters proposals from some state game departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conrad L. Wirth
National Park Service
North American Wildlife Conference
Audubon Society
Carl W. Buchheister
Audubon Magazine
National Parks
National Audubon Society
Opposition to admitting Red China to the U.N.
Washington sees growing organized opposition to allowing Communist China into the United Nations. Reps and senators, business groups, and anti-communist advocates press U.S. to keep Red China out while Kennedy sticks with aid to Chiang Kai-shek and resists moves to place Red China on the General Assembly agenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
Washington
Enterprise
Assn. Washington
NEA
China
United Nations
East Germany
Berlin
Soviet Russia
United States
Europe
Red China
America
Russia
U.N
Minneapolis
U.S
American Security Council
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
Chester Bowles
Adlai Stevenson
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
White House
Kennedy
Formosa
General Assembly
State Department
Security Council
Dean Rusk
U S Steel taps Quebec ore as foreign supplies rise
American steelmakers broaden ore sourcing amid slow July demand as U S Steel ships a trial cargo from Quebec to Fairless Works, testing harbor loading for 6000 tons per hour. New Canadian and Labrador mines supplement diminishing U S iron ore, with Venezuela and Canada leading 1960 imports.
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New York
U.S. Steel
Quebec
Fairless Works
Philadelphia
Port Cartier
St. Lawrence
Labrador
Lake Superior
Midwest
West Coast
Venezuela
Birmingham
Ala
American Iron & Steel Institute
United States
Canada
Chile
Peru
Brazil
Liberia
Mexico
British West Africa
Sweden
From milk driver to $33,000 in 18 years investing
A milk driver outlines his thrifty path to financial self reliance. He started with $8,000 savings and $2,000 emergency fund, bought 50 shares each of Borden General Motors and Standard Oil in 1943, now worth over $33,000 after 18 years of splits and dividends. He relied on investing in core American enterprises and steady saving until retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Consolidated Edison of
New York
Borden
Corn Exchange Bank
Woolworth
R. H. Macy
Standard Oil of New Jersey
Esso
General Motors
Chevrolet
General Electric
Best and Company
Rbrorden
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Standard Oil of
America
You Are Getting Younger as You Grow Older
Ruth Millett presents a lighthearted test of aging attitudes, claiming people stay youthful by expanding social circles, pursuing new skills, embracing present opportunities, and maintaining optimism. The piece encourages proactive growth and helpful, hopeful living despite advancing age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Millett
The Paradox of Perfection in Public Life
Paul Harvey argues that people crave idealized leaders and icons as standards for conduct. He notes society shuns uncommon qualities yet idolizes those who embody perfection, citing royalty and officials, and warns that celebrating mediocrity lowers aspirations and harms national resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Emily Post
Biddeford Maine Newspaper Classified Notice Fragment
Biddeford Maine paper header shows publisher editor and contact lines with subscription rates listed. It includes address 11 Adams Street and notes Associated Press rights and 1961 copyright details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Paw Casavant
T J. Mahoney
Associated Press
Post Office
Solitude and Faith Enlighten the Soul
A meditation on the value of solitude as a shield from human opinion. The speaker vows to seek nature, air, birdsong, and inner strength to renew courage and faith. Only after this retreat can the soul act for the benefit of all mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Free Expression Letters and Washington Legislature Notes
A reader letter from Charles Parsons questions Senator McCarthy and proclaims lifelong devotion to truth. The item shifts to Olympia reporting that over six tons of paper were used to print the first six bills of Washington's 1961 legislative session, with about 35 tons anticipated for 1,500 bills in 60 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia
Wash
Washington
John C. Gregory
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across Clues and Answers
A compiled set of crossword clues with across entries including far range missile abbr city lat 9 musketeer. 14 Honshu city early capital of Japan 17 hoop skirt 19 town in England husband in the good old day 3 words 22 better s word 23 Josip Broz 24 baseball 3 bagger 27 capital of Hungary 31 describing some socks 32 wilderness where the Israelites wandered 38 years 33 river of Brazil 34 enemies of the Pueblos 35 dawns poet 36 come meet accident 87 modern abbi 38 sears 39 Halloween apparition 40 forestalls 42 cowboys 43 beige river in Switzerland 45 symbols of tri or treat time 50 excelsior for example 51 popular chess 2 words 53 hall 54 small room 55 arms 2 56 slides over 57 inspires with 3 58 bugle call 12 gems of swans 13 famous uncle 18 strangely 21 operatic roles 25 helicopter ELICO helicopter system of blades 26 France 2 27 farm buildings 28 signature of noted author 29 animal track 30 aquariums 32 popular name of was 36 boxing blow 38 summons by gan 39 famous French actress 41 mathematical quantity or line 42 badgerlike mammals 44 point of view 45 minor prophet 46 island off 47 over again 48 city in California 49 light leap 50 manuscript abbr 52 ensign abbr
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Honshu
Japan
England
Josip Broz
Hungary
Brazil
Abbi
Sears
Switzerland
France
Summons Bygan
California
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Bie
W.W.M
Ruth Mitott
Paul Harvey News
Paul Harvey
Britains
Queen Mary
Queen Mother Elizabeth
Press Club
Fleet Street
Red Army
General Features Corp
Little LY
Durance
People’s Forum
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
Fort Monmouth
CIO
Constitutional
Wisconsin
Charles Parsons
Sandburg
Ital
Colleq
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