Billion Asset Roll of Firms Still Growing
AP reports more companies exceeding one billion dollars in assets, rising non financial giants to 33, plus 17 banks and 15 insurance/finance firms in the billion-dollar group. Largest assets include AT&T, Standard Oil NJ, General Electric, with U S Steel and Pennsylvania Railroad in the three billion tier.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
U. S. Steel and
Pennsylvania Railroad
du Pont
New York Central
Socony-Vacuum
Indiana Standard Oil
Pacific Gas and Electric
Southern Pacific
Gulf Oil
Ford Motors
Stamps Highlight U S Army in Korean War Old Baldy Flags
Frost West Virginia and Frostproof Florida climate notes lead into Stamp in the News coverage. The piece describes a 10 centavos lavender regular mail stamp and a 20 cent green airmail stamp bearing the Colombian battalion coat of arms with Korean and Colombian flags. A new 3 cent stamp views Old Baldy in a broader Armed Forces Reserve theme to be issued on Armed Forces Day May 21 in Washington DC showing five enlisted men from each service branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Baldy
U. S
Armed Forces Reserve
Armed Forces Day
Washington, D. C
Marines
Coast Guard
Stamps and First Flight Covers Highlight Post Office News
The article outlines Armed Forces Reserve stamp imagery and first day cover procedures, notes about watermarks and perforations for stamp varieties, and announces Saar stamps plus Pan American World Airways first flight covers from New York to Tehran. It lists dates for Saar stamps, Red Cross tribute issues, and May 1 AM-86 air mail service with routes and post office dispatch details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saar
Saarbrucken
Red Cross
Pan American World Airways
New York
Teheran
Iran
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Dear Friend Poem From Edgar A Guest
A short verse fragment presents Edgar A. Guest addressing a stranger who writes “Dear friend.” The speaker questions the sincerity of the salutation and declines the offered favor, noting the introduction as flattery and choosing to proceed without obligation or risk. The tone is ironic and observational about social courtesies.
Monkey’s vanity leads to capture on Chicago roof
A fugitive monkey, proud of its reflection, was captured Tuesday after admiring itself in a mirror atop a downtown Chicago building. The animal had escaped from a stage on La Salle Street last Friday and used the roof as its headquarters before the capture.
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Chicago
la Salle Street
Mirror on Roof Sparks Hazardous Setup at Rochester Clinic
Marvin Johnson, an building engineer, and his assistant set a mirror on the Mayo Clinic roof with a nearby cage and waited for the inevitable to happen according to the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Marvin Johnson
Linn County Bond Sales Rise in First Quarter Report
U S bond sales in Linn County totalled 2 619 037 dollars with March purchases exceeding 20 million in E and H bonds and a 4 million rise over March. First quarter sales hit 59 813 686 dollars reaching 37 percent of the 1955 quota per Des Moines based U S Savings Bond Division report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Linn County
Towans
U. S. Savings Bond Division
Des Moines
Bonds Drive Iowa First Quarter Totals Amid Mixed Quotas
In the first quarter sales reached 2 619 037 in E and H bonds, 38 percent of the state quota. Mitchell Osage led with 57 percent while Linn ranked second behind Polk's four million dollar goal. National average stood at 28 percent. six Iowa counties fell below that mark. Eastern Iowa readings include Norene mee 49 percent, Benton 46, Buchanan 31, Cedar 33, Clayton 47, Delaware 35, Dubuque 4, Fayette 43, Iowa 51, Jackson 34, Johnson 38, Jones 37, Kiamiesama Washington Winneshiek 40.
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Mitchell
Osage
Linn
Polk
Iowa
Noremenee
Benton
Buchanan
Cedar
Clayton
Delaware
Dubuque
Fayette
Jackson
Johnson
Jones
Kiani
Ama
Ashington
Winneshiek
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ChurchiLl
MR. Churchill
Winston
Sam Dawson
Frost
W. Va
Frostproof
Fla
Armed Forces
Army
Navy
Air Force
Itay
Elgium
Charles Quint
Iking
Charles V
Ghent
Spain
Belgium
Netherlands
Brussels
Lufthansa
Western
Germany
Colombia
Detroit
South Bend
Ind
Ann Arbor
Kalamazoo
Battle Creek
Mich
Postal Transportation Service
Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Monkey
Armstrong Coats
Berkshire
Sun King
Mallinson
Galey & Lord
Armstrong
Sun King Rayon
Galey & Lord's
Claude E. Runner
Cliff" Egger
Howard Heathman
Armstrong's Fur Depts
Louise Robinson
Armstrong's Custom Fur Dept
Armstrong's
Armstrong Custom Furs
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