Portuguese visitors praise American speech and radio scene in Cedar Rapids
Almeida Grace and Augusto Serras of Lisbon travel 20 000 miles to inspect radio parts in Cedar Rapids. They fly from New York to the Midwest, attend a national radio parts show with consultant Garnet Ramsey, and remark that living in the United States is easier than in Portugal while noting high Lisbon gasoline prices and no automobile tax. Grace and Serras attend a Roosevelt hotel dinner with local guests.
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Almeida Grace
Augusto Serras
Lisbon
Portugal
Cedar Rapids
Atlantic Ocean
Azores
Bermuda
New York
Midwest
Garnet Ramsey
Chicago
Serras
Mr. Grace
United States
Grace
Mr. Serras
Suez Canal
Kenya
Africa
Miss Ramsey
Roosevelt Hotel
M. H. Collins
Beverly Hulbert
Vivien Buser
Naomi Doebel
Robert C. Moody
William G. Hottensen
Laurence S. Ramsey
Campbell Gazette
Romanian Premier Arrives in Munich to Meet Ribbentrop
The German news agency DNB reported Premier Ion Antonescu of Romania arrived in Munich and was greeted by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. He follows Balkan leaders King Boris of Bulgaria and Ante Pavelic in visiting Germany, with Hungarian Premier Ladislaus de Bardossy recently meeting Mussolini.
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Berlin
DNB
Ion Antonescue
Rumania
Munich
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Antonescu
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Boris
Bulgaria
Ante Pavelic
Ladislaus de Bardossy
Benito Mussolini
Aluminum Scrap Placed Under Full War Priority
Washington, UP. Priorities Director E. R. Stettinius Jr announced orders placing aluminum scrap and zinc under full priority control. Defense needs for these materials will be filled ahead of other requirements, with an emergency zinc pool to meet urgent needs and allocate remaining zinc to civilian demand. More than 80 percent of aluminum produced in June will be used for defense.
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Washington
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
Office of Production Management
Stettinius
OPM Pri
Celebrate 55th Wedding Anniversary At Lowden
LOWDEN The fifty fifth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Kruckenberg was observed at home and with a reception for relatives and friends. Mrs Kruckenberg is nearly 75 and her husband 80. They married June 10 1886 in London. Their life together centered in the area with farming near Hartley and later in Lowden.
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Lowden
Mrs. Ner
Mrs. Kruckenberg
Mr. Kruckenberg
Addison
Ill
Wilhelmina Kroemer
Germany
London
Herman Werndt
C. E. Kroemer
Hartley
Londen
Kruckenberg
Paul
Martha Scheepner
Fred Pieper
Luella Boehl
Emil Gehris
British Bomber Sinks Axis Ship With U S Bombsight
A Wednesday report from London cites a reliable U S source stating a British bomber using a U S developed bombsight sank an axis ship off the Dutch coast on June 7 with a direct hit from 8000 feet on the first drop. A U S civilian bombsight expert was aboard.
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London
United States
Britain
Living Costs Rise 0.6 Percent in May Survey
The New York AP report shows the cost of living for U S wage earners up 0.6 percent in May. Food prices led the rise as overall costs climbed 2.6 percent from May 1940 while remaining 11.7 percent below May 1929 levels.
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New York
United States
Swiime Toath
Boy Drowned at Camp Lake in Brainerd
Earl Swendsen, four, drowned in Camp lake Brainerd Minnesota after five hour search by 35 volunteers.
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Brainerd, Minn
Earl Swendsen
Camp Lake
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