Retired Cedar Rapids Clerk Plans Leisure Travel
Joseph Dvorak, 68, retires after 48 years as railway postal clerk on the North Western Chicago to Omaha route. He earned a lifetime in transit, counted 47 travel pictures, and plans West Coast trips with wife Rose and daughter in Denver, cherishing decades on the rails and a wish to tour the nation by car.
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Joseph Dvorak
Cedar Rapids
North Western
Joe
Omaha
Chicago
Maine
Czechoslovakia
United States
T. M. Sinclair Packing Company
Cedar Rapids Business College
Sam
Fairfax
Twenty-seventh Street
Stanley X. Kriz
Denver
Transportation by Car Is Increasing
A Chamber of Commerce survey shows private automobiles carrying about 85 percent of combined local and long distance traffic. For the first six months of the year US travel rose 6 percent from 1951, while rail, bus and air traffic also rose nearly 6 percent. Local transit and commuter services declined about 6 percent, linked to higher fares and strikes.
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Washington
Transportation Department
The
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Whale tail shapes differ by species for propulsion
The tails of whales are horizontal, enabling efficient propulsion through bending their flukes. In contrast fish tails are vertical, steering and thrusting with up and down movements.
Electric Power from Atoms Drawing Nearer
Philadelphia report notes Westinghouse engineer Dr. N L Modhel says mobile power units for military use pave way to economically build atomic energy plants for electric power. Studies by atomic engineers address reactor materials coolants pumps and control equipment.
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Philadelphia
N. L. Modhel
Westinghouse
New Plastic Used In United States Ship Materials
The SS United States surfaces are covered with a tough new fireproof decorative plastic developed by Westinghouse. The material forms a sandwich with 1/16 inch aluminum between melamine layers bonded by phenolic resin, providing fire repellence for the ship.
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Trafford
United States
Westinghouse
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Kenwood
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Kenwood Transfer
Colgate
Nature
Wens
Colgate - Palmolive- Peet Company
106Udson Street
Jersey City 2
N. J
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Newman
Dial
Mary Miles
Iowa
Plisse
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Frostpoint
Newman's
Lady Chesterfield
Coats
Comespun
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