25 Nov 1955
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1955
Page
1
Sylvia Porter warns inflation remains the top U. S. threat as the economy roars toward a peacetime high. Shortages of steel and skilled labor appear while the Federal Reserve tightens credit to curb borrowing and slow the boom, risking higher costs and slower growth.
Poem urges letting children romp and play while youth lasts. Narrator praises life among kids, contrasting with quiet elder years, expresses gratitude for being around children and the vitality they bring, and favors joyful, lively scenes over silence.
Oswald Jacoby discusses the Rule of Eleven at the Winter National tournament in Miami Beach. A reader illustrates how West could have used the rule after East returns the six of diamonds, revealing only five diamonds higher in the other three hands and enabling a line to unblock the jack to defeat the contract.
Barranquilla reports more than 15,000 residents forced from homes as the Magdalena River, Colombia's largest, overflows its banks after heavy rainfall. Local authorities scramble to provide shelter and aid to affected families amid rising water levels.
Bob Considine reports a brief Chicago interview with Harry S. Truman at the Blackstone suite, a short session after a friend introduced the biographer of Gen. MacArthur. The piece also notes playful barroom chatter about Kefauver, Spellman, and a card from Salvatore Lucania in southern Italy.
The Queen Mother Elizabeth was installed Thursday as chancellor of the University of London marking the first time a woman held the role.
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