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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 27, 1956

Page

6

Channel One TV Hopes To Offer Marilyn As Miss Sadie Thompson

New York report states Marilyn Monroe may portray Miss Sadie Thompson opposite Gregory Peck as the Reverend Davidson in an NBC special. Channel One booked Gary Cooper for a live TV appearance and considers Ingrid Bergman for a supporting role while boosting a cash bonus to attract viewers from competing shows.

Channel_One TV Marilyn Miss Sadie Thompson Tom O'Malley Bob Canolff New York Marilyn Monroe Sadie Thompson Gregory Peck Rev Mr. Davidson NBC Weuclums Gary Swede Cooper Sinclair Lewis Dodsworth Ingrid Bergman

Television Listings With Local Stations and Names

The page lists TV listings for stations S KCRS TY and others in Cader Rapids and Waterloo, with names like Fortuna Secrete and Tony Martin among the mentioned on air personalities. It includes times such as 6:15 and 13 Ton Martini, indicating schedule entries and host references across multiple stations.

Cites Boost In Violations Of Wage Law

Washington AP reports Newell Brown administrator of the wage division cites a rise in enforcement as the $1 minimum wage nears. Of 99,300 establishments checked to June 30, 21,549 violated key provisions and 14 percent violated minimum wage rules. Total back wages due reached 12 million dollars affecting about 130,000 workers.

Weg Newell Brown Labor Department Wage and Your Division Brown House Appropriations

Wage-law cases cited across multiple states

A government inspector cited high wage levels and cases of underpaid workers. Examples include a bank janitress in the mid-South paid 24 cents an hour for two hours daily six days weekly with $506 back wages, a Southern scrap metal firm night watchman earning about $30 for a 70 hour week, and a Lew Eng costume jewelry firm paying homeworkers 12 to 15 cents an hour. Brown noted cases in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, adding most settlements involve back pay and only 10 people have been jailed since 1938.

mid-South Lew Eng Brown Midwest mid-Atlantic

Crossing of U. S. Tops Sound Rate

Virginia poll shows Eisenhower strong in 1952 race with wide lead among Virginians if voting occurred this month. F-84 jets completed non stop flight from California to Langley AFB in about 3 hours 94 minutes setting a rapid time. Air force officials did not confirm new record. Eisenhower seen as favorite against Kefauver or Harriman in Virginia.

Richmond Eisenhower Virginia Times-Dispatch Langley Air Force Base Adlai Stevenson Air Force San Bernardino Senator Kefsover D-Tenn Averell Harriman New York

Record flights by Lt Col Scott and Lt Hill at high altitude

Lt Col Robert H. Scott age 35 and Lt Richard Hill age 25 piloted planes at 31 500 to 41 500 feet. Scott whose parents live in Des Moines set a transcontinental record 11 months earlier flying an F 4 F jet from Los Angeles to New York at an average speed of 652 mph over 2240 miles. He is a graduate of Iowa State College.

Robert H. Scott Richard Hill Belween Scott Des Moines Los Angeles New York Iowa State College

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