World We Live In and Year year 1955 gift picks
A LIFE magazine Lincoln Barnett collaboration titled The World We Live In offers five billion years of natural history in 30 large pages with stunning drawings and photos, priced at 13.50. Simon and Schuster 87.95 presents YEAR 1955 a pictorial annual with 1,309 photos and 75,000 words covering the year’s major events and a Churchill feature.
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Pion
Life Magazine
Lincoln Barnett
Johnny
Simon and Schuster
New York
Pictorial News
Britain
Winston Churchill
Formosa
Pearl Harbor
First Class Mail By Air Is Upheld
The U S court of appeals upheld the air delivery experiment for ordinary first class mail. It found no reason to prohibit the program though it said statutory provisions are broad enough to cover it.
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Washington
Post Office Department
U.S. Court of Appeals
Cedar Rapids Teens Host Christmas Offering Dance
Cedar Rapids teens host a Friday 8 to 11 p.m. Christmas offering dance at the Eagles lodge room sponsored by the lodge. Attendees ages 13 to 19 bring a can of food for Salvation Army baskets. Leonard Reyman’s orchestra plays. door prizes at 9 p.m. Open to all youths, with curfew rules and parental notes.
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Cedar Rapids
Eagles Lodge
Salvation Army
Tweedy
Leonard Reyman
Orchestra I
Eastern Epidemic Is Under Control in Lancaster
A nine day para typhoid fever outbreak was declared under control on Monday with three new cases raising the total to 153. Dr Berwyn F Mattison state secretary of health said a dairy appears to have been the outbreak source. A separate item notes a motorist picked up two hitchhikers near Indianola Nebraska U S Rep Phil Weaver and U S Senator Carl Curtis both Neb on a stranded car.
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Lancaster
Ins
Berwyn F. Mattison
Congressional Hitch
Indianola
Neb
U.S
Phil Weaver
Carl Curtis
Navy plans for three stage satellite launch to 1967
Navy estimates a 250 ton multistage rocket to boost a 50 pound satellite into orbit at 18 000 mph as part of Project Vanguard with a 20 million dollar price tag and a first stage Viking and second stage Aerobee.
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Darrel] Garwood
Washington
INS
Navy
Martin Aircraft
Defense
W. McNeil
Pentagon
Martin
Aerodet General Corporation
Aerobee
McNeil
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Santa -Eris
Redstone
America
Defense Department
Norrmal
Jils
International Geophe White House
Tional Academy of Sciences
Ins Lit
General Electric
Noman
Mate
Kingsville
Texas
Sunny Worden
Jvmouth Hock
Toa
U Colisle & Reichle
First Avenue
Dial
The
Ivy League
California
Cheose
Arthur Allen
McGregor
Botany 500
Ratner
Foots Footsav
Footsaver
Bostonian Footsavers
Shoe Department
Syndicats OF
Mantin
Gotham
Martins
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