Dress-Up Drive Sparks Fashion Industry Revival
Sylvia Porter surveys postwar fashion woes and a sweeping revival plan. The industry, hit by recessions and shrinking clothing share of the consumer dollar, mobilizes a nationwide campaign culminating in Fashion-O-Rama at New York Coliseum. Industry leaders tout the event as a turning point to reglamorize apparel and boost consumer demand. The expo will showcase 78 classifications across over 12 football-field spaces with tens of thousands of buyers and millions of viewers via TV.
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New York
America
Sylvia Porter
Coliseum
George Fass
Fashion-O-Rama
Michael Ressner
Cedar Rapids City Council Action Then and Now
The Cedar Rapids city council appointed William C. Bennett and Robert E. Salasek to the fire department effective July 16 from the civil service list on Fire Chief Jesse Hunter’s recommendation. The council authorized an Abell-Howe permit for an offstreet parking lot near May Drug Co. in Town and Country Shopping Center and approved several signage, parade, and permit measures involving downtown barricades, a Czech group event, a July 4 fireworks display, and various street and utility work including gas mains and a parking lot exit driveway on First Avenue East.
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Illiam C. Bennett
Robert E. Salasek
Cedar Rapids
Abell-Howe Company
May Drug Company
Town and Country
First Avenue
Channel 9 News 6 PM Edition Highlights
The daily program presents latest news and sports from CHANNEL 9 NEWS with a 6:00 o’clock edition. Reporters cover regional events and scoreboard updates alongside brief national highlights.
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Channel 9
Executrix Seeks Claims For Estate of Schwarzentruber
State of Iowa Linn County about the estate of Schwarzentruber late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Creditors must present claims duly authenticated at the office of the Clerk of Linn County District Court. Fay Schwarsentruber Executrix. Donnelly Lynch Lynch and Dallas Attorneys.
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Iowa
Linn County
Siened
End’ Sugutie Ae
Schwarzentruber
Linn
Auty Baying
Towa
Fay Schwarsentruber
Donnelly
Lynch, Lynch and
Dallas
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Nity
City Plan Commission
Hunter
Richard Wing
Fire Department
University of [Own
Iowa City
Cedar Hills Development Company
Webb-Becker
Elmcrest Golf and Country’ Club
Second Street
Fifth To
Eighth Avenue
Uditi
Twenty-ninth Street
Dale Aveniue
Sixth Street
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Elks Lodge No. 251
Emma Avenue
Elks Pavilion
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Zobac
Vine Avenue
Fortieth Street
I Avenue
Vernal Street
Seventh Avenue
H Street
Sixth Avenue
Third Street
Weing Road
Coldstream Avenue
Hillhaven Court
Twenty-eighth Street
Barry
Morehead Construction Company
Twenty-seventh Street
Twenty-seventh
RIX
Morris Plan
First Avenue SE
American Industrial Bankers Association
Craemer
Orion Chambray
J. P. Stevens
Annetta
O'Givinchy
Craemer's
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