Cedar Rapids 1940 View: Growth Amid Old Problems
In 1940 Cedar Rapids shows growth with a peak population of 62 037 and an expanding industrial base. The city adds a new federal building, waterworks and police facilities, while streetcars give way to buses and streamliners attract crowds at Union Station.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Raiders
Fourth
Merchants National Bank
Roosevelt Hotel
Coliseum
City Hall
Federal
Second Avenue
Second Street
Old King Building
First Street
Hawkeye Downs
Third Avenue
Sixteenth Avenue
Marion Boulevard
Cedar Rapids and
Marion Street Railway
Iowa City Railway
Eighth Avenue
Union Station
Iowa City
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Northern
A Avenue
Tenth Street
Washington
Grant
Reed Park
LaPlant-Choale Company
Penick and Ford
Quaker
Coe
Greene Square
Fourth Street
Bible distribution rises in Europe says American Bible Society
The American Bible Society reported a remarkable rise in Europe Bible distribution. It noted 1,225,000 Bibles distributed in Germany last year and a 50 percent sales increase in France Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
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New York
INS
Europe
American Bible Society
Society
Germany
France
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Norwegian trawler Bergholm returns after Atlantic voyage
A weathered 68 foot Norwegian trawler Bergholm and eight crewmen arrived in New York harbor after a perilous westward voyage. Captain Bernt Hauge recounted crossing the Atlantic in a converted mine sweeper to avoid Nazi-occupied Norway, surviving aerial bombardment and a perilous night crossing to reach the United States.
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New York
America
Bergholm
Bernt Hauge
Viking Land
Atlantic
Norway
Haugesan
Bergen
Germany
Mariners Escape Atlantic Voyage After German Surrender
June 7 details a Norwegian crew fleeing the Atlantic after learning Germany’s resistance had ended. They battled fog and storms for 16 days with scant provisions and fuel, landing in Yarmouth Nova Scotia before heading to New York. Crew includes Dr Haakon Lathur and Arthur Vervik.
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Norway
Bergholm
Shetland Islands
Boueckie
Faroe Islands
America
Atlantic
Yarmouth
Nova Scotia
New York
Canada
Hauge
Dr Haakon Lathur
Arthur Vervik
Jealous Slayer Confesses After Polygraph Test
Ernest Fischer 25 confessed to police he shot and killed John Tebo 31 a truck driver on Wednesday. Fischer said the killing stemmed from jealousy over Tebo's attentions to Mrs. Lee Dille 26 widow after his alibi was undermined by a lie detector test.
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Minneapolis
Ernest Fischer
John Tebo
Tebo
Lee Dille
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Gazette Photo
Florida
Pillsbury
S-Ib
Mer
Ipie
U. S
Hiltbrunner
Chickering Pianos
Wurlitzer Pianos
Stock Pianos
Straube Pianos
Winter Pianos
MNET
Hiltbrunner Music
Tromsoe
Oslo
Newman
Newman's
Casion
Rayon
Sports Shop
Neuman
Peavous
Mary Miles
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