High Insurance Coverage Across Urban Population
A 1955 survey by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, reported by the Institute of Life Insurance, shows nine of ten urban men, seven of ten urban women, and two thirds of urban children hold some form of life insurance. Rural figures are lower but substantial, with 77 percent of rural men and 58 percent of rural women insured.
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New York
America
The
Institute of Life Insurance
University of Michigan
Survey Reveals Teens Aim For College, Cars, Homes
Los Angeles high school seniors envision a college education a nice home and one or more cars. Boys expect further schooling and high earning careers while many girls plan to be homemakers or balance homemaking with work, focusing on a good home and car.
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Los Angeles
Ralph H Turner
University of California At
We Work Less for More These Days
Minneapolis report from Northwestern National Life Insurance outlines a century of rising living standards driven by farm efficiency and urban shifts. Measured in 1955 dollars, per capita disposable income rose from about 550 in 1290 to 313 in 1950 and then to over 2 630 by 1953, with a typical three person household spending around 42 dollars for a home in the era.
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Minneapolis
Family Economics Bureau of
Northwestern National Life Insurance
Bureau Ethalites
Automation Foreseen As Boon to Dairies
At Michigan State College the National Dairy Engineering Conference heard W J Scarlett of Minneapolis Honeyscoil Regulator Company argue dairies should automate further. He pictured milk dumped from farms being weighed and analyzed by computer for butter fat, with data feeding internal records and triggering a check to pay farmers.
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East Lansing
Judge fines himself for being late to Ware Superior Court
In Waycross Georgia Judge Cecil Roddenberry arrived late to Ware Superior Court thinking it opened at 10 am rather than 8 am He rejected the excuse and fined himself 49.7 dollars for each minute late highlighting court discipline and punctuality at the proceedings
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Waycross
Cecil Roddenberry
Ware Superior Court
Glass-Lined Planet Once Orbiting Between Mars and Jupiter
Washington reports on tektites or black-green diamonds found worldwide. Ralph Stair of the National Bureau of Standards argues the glassy fragments come from a once glass-skinned planet, smashed in a collision with a twin or Jupiter moon. The earth’s surface thus holds remnants of an ancient cosmic disaster.
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Washington
Mars
Jupiter
Ralph Stair
National Bureau of Standards
Stair
Smithsonian Institution
New Uses for Magnesium Salts in Humans and Livestock
A AMA report notes magnesium salts prevent grass staggers in cattle after spring grazing and may help delirium tremens in chronic alcoholism. Dr Edmund B Flink of Minneapolis explains human magnesium deficiency causes muscle twitching tremor and convulsions, while cattle exhibit nervousness restlessness and unsteady gait after grazing new grass.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
Edmund B Flink
Minneapolis
Clude
Flink
New Bird Fossils Added to Known List
Washington reports a rising count of fossil birds in North America and the West Indies. Dr Alexander Wetmore leads a compiled checklist at the Smithsonian Institution noting over 400 fossil species with fewer than half represented by living relatives.
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Washington
North America
West Indies
Alexander Wetmore
Smithsonian Institution
Reading Poorly Among the Supposedly Educated
In New York and across the nation adults may overestimate literacy while tests reveal low reading levels. Estimates place 10 percent of students as retarded readers and many city high school students reading below grade level. Poor reading links to emotional issues and social challenges.
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New York
New York City
Better Vision Institute
Los Angeles
Board of Education
African Rats Walk Upright Like Man
Rats added to the Smithsonian mammal collections after Dr Henry W Setzer collected them during an expedition to Litsa in search of hosts for insect parasites and disease. The species are desert-adapted, small in size with bushy tails, and walk on hind legs similar to kangaroos, making them among the best known northern desert fauna.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institute
Henry W Setzer
Litsa
Northern Desert
Kalamazoo Police add two women for parking meter help
Kalamazoo Michigan police deploy two uniformed women to offer change for motorists at meters. The program partially serves the public need while the officers are also empowered to ignore parking violators.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
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