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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1955
Page
4
Coffee Cartel Hopes To Restore Prices Across Americas
The article notes Latin American producers and the Belgian Congo unite to lift coffee above $1.40 per pound, citing U.S. consumption drops and a plan to stockpile beans when supply is rich while releasing reserves when scarce. It compares costs with tea and suggests brewing tips to win back drinkers. It ends by inviting cartel discussion over coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgian Congo
United States
Wall Street Journal
Charles F. Hutchinson
Federal Board of Tea Experts
Coffee Cartel
Power Without Muscles and the Vanishing Horse
An nostalgic essay traces the shift from horse power to engines and machines. It notes 60 million automobiles surpassing horse numbers, railroads and planes replacing live horsepower, and compares past and present shares of work done by muscles versus machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eohippus
United States
Noontime Juror Grab By U S Marshal Sparks Reactions
In New York the U S marshal and deputies halted people near the U S Court House asking age citizenship and employment to recruit veniremen for a narcotics case. Judge Dimock authorized the action as 15 potential jurors were sought. Reactions varied with women refusing to serve and men assuming it was a gag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Court House
U. S
Nuclear power outlook and global energy comparisons
The article cites Philip Sporn predicting limited nuclear share in 1970s U.S. power while total capacity grows to 200 million kilowatts by the 1960s and 275 million by 1970, with England and Europe adopting coal and oil dynamics. it notes rising Far East vaccine trade expanding to East Pakistan shipping vaccines at 400000 annually for 3 to 4.5 dollars per unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dustry
Atomic Energy
Philip Sporn
American Gas City Company
Madison
OVEC
Portsmouth
Ohio
Sporn
Hames
Hiroshima
Britain
England
United States
Far East
Philippines
India
East Pakistan
Hollywood gossip and film future plans revealed
Ann Miller denies engagement rumors while choosing a European MGM goodwill tour over The Tender Trap role. Jack Entratter pursues a globe-trotting search for showgirls for Ziegfeld Follies. Dana Wynter jokes about medical school as she eyes scripts and TV work amid industry moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Ann Miller
Debbie Reynolds
Annie
Europe
MGM
Jack Entratter
Las Vegas Sands
Globe
Onassy
Jospeh Cotton
RKO
Dana Wynter
Fnr
Palisades
Los Angeles
Debbie
Magnificent Devils
Jack Webb
Dragnet
Ben Alexander
Jack
Pete Kelly
Wilson
Mel Ferrer
Lake
Italy
The Art and Pride of Waiting on Tables
Robert Ruark extols the waiter’s craft as dignified and lucrative, criticizes American service, and celebrates the bond between waiters and customers. He recalls New York and Texas encounters with named waiters, emphasizing mutual respect and personal connection in dining rooms.
Table service is dying in America says table service is dying
The article extols waiters from Nairobi to Nas sau who deliver courtesy and craft, noting tips boost earnings but dignity remains. It highlights how tipping shapes work, sharing stories of bus boys rising to prominence and praising hospitality as a fine yet overlooked profession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Nairobi
Nassau
Omi
Ludwig Bemelmans
Toots Shor
Washington
Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Adlai
Borden
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Ike
Averell Harriman
New York
Mennen Williams
Michigan
Illinois
Frank Knox
State Department
Arthur Schlessinger
Harvard
Bill Benton
Connecticut
Kefauver
Tennessee
Grocers Weigh Coupon Changes and Cash Reforms
Elmer Roessner reports grocers favor coupon simplification to cut handling work and push for uniform paper size values and family resemblance across coupons. Surveys note mixed retailer reactions and Safeway’s contradictory coupon headache as other tech shifts emerge. Sugar production outlook from the Foreign Agricultural Service reaches 40.3 million short tons for 1954-55.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul S. Willis
Grocery Manufacturers of America
Associat
New York
Chicago
Western Electric
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Foreign Agricultural Service
Independent Technical Board urged for reliable reclamation figures
The report on the first Hoover Commission six years ago urged creating an Independent Technical Board to provide Congress and the public with reliable figures on reclamation projects. It argued the Interior Department and its Bureau of Reclamation have a vested interest and political motives may bias data. The piece notes rumors that arid-state lawmakers may push to remove Echo dam, shaping the final conference agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover Commission
Congress
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclaamtion
Tehir
Senate
Echo Park
Bureau of Reclamation
Wemeimner
Adhel
Desheimer
Defend River Project With Spurious Figures
An editorial critiques using flawed tax data to apportion the Upper Colorado project costs by state. It cites Ohio California Illinois and others, arguing the method misleads readers and suggests the Hoover Commission will push wasteful public spending without reliable figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tax Foundation
Colorado
Ohio
California
Returned Students and Chinese Education in the United States
The article recounts the impact of Chinese Returned Students who studied in American colleges and universities in the 19th and early 20th centuries and their roles in China’s government and development. It laments deportation talk amid U S policy debate and cites figures, institutions, and figures such as C. T. Wang and Tsing Hua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
China
Foreign Service of China
C. T. Wang
Foreign Office
wWohn's University
Shanghai
Episcopalian School
Rockefeller Foundation
Asia
Tsing Hua
Yale
Krishna Menon
Nehru
United States
Mao Tze-tung
de Anetnion
State Department
Immigration Service
Chou En-lai
White House polio crisis and Stevenson bid in 1956
The piece outlines a backstage policy battle over Ike’s TV presence amid the polio vaccine scandal and cites Keefer and Cutter Laboratories. It tracks Adlai Stevenson preparing for a 1956 run, with Kefauver as a possible challenger, and reveals a probe surrounding Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Wilson over a tungsten contract blackmail plot involving Promoters in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Ike
Chester Scott Keefer
Cutter Laboratories
Commerce Department
Thomas B. Wilson
Atlantica
Wilson
U. S
Europe
William Graham
Lewis Gordon
Spain
Graham
Gordon
Madrid
Montestoria
Montestorial
THIRTY YEARS AGO CITY BOARD NOMINATIONS AND MEETING
Thirty years ago ten candidates were to be nominated for the city board of directors. All was in readiness for the convention of the West Virginia State Medical Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Va. State Medical Association
Senator Soaper’s odd hobby and bill collectors noted
A garbled passage mentions Senator Soaper and Tilly with an odd hobby linked to bill collectors. The unnamed photographer laments rain spoiling stark realism from dust-bowl photos while a parent frets over pay as you see television.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilly
Uae
Steer
Russians Open To International Atomic Weapons Policing
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes a potential shift by Russian leaders toward accepting an international arrangement to police atomic weapons production which could ease inspections and reduce constraints on Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
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Ray Tucker
U. 5
Sheilah Graham
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Marlene Dietrich
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Texas
Roberto
Elmer Roessner
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France
Credit Exchange, Inc
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Interior
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