Legion marks 41st birthday with dinner in Cedar Rapids
Hanford post 5 will host a March 15 birthday dinner at 6:30 p.m. with a social hour at 5:30 before a Legion town club gathering. The event aligns with nationwide celebrations by about 17 000 posts as Commander Ernest Ressa notes the Legion’s goals to boost 1960 membership. The American Legion honors World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans.
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Historic Milestone GNP Surpasses Half Trillion Dollars
Sylvia Porter notes the U.S. Gross National Product has topped $500 billion, with consumer spending at $322 billion and overall growth continuing despite stock swings. Forecasters like Fortune and A W Zelomek predict continued strength and rising GNP into 1960, even as some sectors cool.
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Average Weekly Earnings Dip in Iowa Manufacturing
Iowa manufacturing workers saw January average weekly earnings decline slightly from December to 94.49 dollars. Hours worked also fell to 39.9 from 41 in December and 40.1 a year earlier. Non agricultural employment stood at 660,500, down 18,200 from December but up 19,800 from January 1959, with most declines in non manufacturing areas.
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Library Lists More New Book Releases
The public library adds new titles in Applied Science led by Poppy Cannon's New Can-opener Cookbook. Other titles include Shetland Pony Handbook Bedell Men at the Top Elliott 101 Toys Children Can Make Kunz Virus Hunters Williams Atlas the Story of a Missile Chapman Hi-fi Stereo for Your.
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Fragmentary readers list of names and works
A partial OCR fragment lists names and titles including Home Whitman Inside Cage Birds in Color Man the US Patent Office Ku’dahl Barth rah Primer of Lamps and Lighting Allphin.
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