Antique autos line up in Cedar Rapids barn cleanout
In Cedar Rapids at 1003 Eleventh Street NW a local goofing company owner Sam Kennedy and his sons display a collection of antique vehicles from a handsome English made cab to a late 19th century horse carriage and a 1937 front wheel drive auto. The Kennedy family plans to open the space for viewing with a crushed rack floor and apron to showcase the cars. A vintage mail carrier car and several other stored relics illustrate the evolution of wheels from the late 1800s onward.
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Eleventh Street
Cedar Rapids
Sam Kennedy
William J
Bill” Kennedy
Emery Kennedy
Second Avenue
Ceder Rapids
Iowa
Kennedy
Sam
Wheels
England
America
Chicago
Walker and Hanwright
McCoy
Benney
Carl Franks
Studebaker
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Ready To Lead Mexico
Mexico City AP reports Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 62, inherits vast powers as president elect of Mexico and head of the Institutional Revolutionary party after Miguel Alemán. A meticulous fiscal administrator with roots in the revolutionary era, he is seen as a moderating, reform minded leader poised to steer Mexico toward stronger democratic leadership in Latin America.
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Charles H. Guptill
Mexico City
Adolfo Ruiz Caortines
Miguel Alemango
Mexico
Ruiz Cortines
Don Adolfo
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Mild Ruiz Cortines
Victoriano Huerta
Vera Cruz
Department of Statistics
Aleman
Manuel Avila Camacho
Lessing
United States
Emperor Nero and the cost of glass cups in history
A century old Steelways piece highlights glass’s rise from rarity to mass production. It cites Nero paying a large sum for two ordinary cups, notes Colbert's estate mirror valued at three times a Raphael painting, and contrasts historic scarcity with modern output of millions of bottles daily by Metro Glass Bottle Co.
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Nero
New York
America
Steelways
American Iron and Steel Institute
Colbert
Raphael
Metro Glass Bottle Company
New Jersey
Artisans showcased in United Nations lift center
The UN opens its first world arts and crafts showcase in the new Assembly building. The center, run by the United Nations Cooperative, displays and sells items from member countries, ranging from Middle Eastern silver bracelets to Indian scarves and Israeli enamel ware. A 15-director board governs the cooperative in Washington DC.
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United Nations
N.Y
United Nations Grt Center
New Assembly Building
U. WN
New York
Middle East
Mexico
Peru
India
Isrrael
Africa
U.n’s New Gift Center
United Nations Cooperative
U.N
District of Columbia Co-operative Association Act
No Chance Likely for Eisenhower To Appoint Members to High Court
Washington AP reports the new president is unlikely to appoint Supreme Court justices soon. Only Justice Frankfurter, 76, is eligible for full retirement but shows no sign of stepping down this session. Court aides note his vigor and ongoing workload.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Supreme Court
Frankfurter
Classic horseless carriages draw crowds in early automotive era
The piece surveys vintage automobiles including the two cylinder Schacht with chain drive and lamps, the 1913 Studebaker described as best looking, the 1908 Hupmobile two seater cherished by Kennedy who owned it 22 years, once raced at an old fair where he earned third prize money.
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Studebaker
Iowa
Hupmobile
Kennedy
Cedar ‘Rapids
Just a Junior. Maine brothers share a long life
In Buxton Maine John Cobb at 93 is called the kid brother while his older sibling Samuel reaches 100 and remains nicknamed Big Brother. The two centenarian brothers draw attention for their age gap and shared family story.
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Buxton
Maine
John Cobb
Samuel
Fathers Spend 80 Million on Toyland Machinery This Year
Fortune magazine notes fathers will spend about 80 million of the 800 million total on industrial toys in 1950. Heavy machines captivate mall boys with bull- dozers cranes and shovels. Makers compete by detailing real machines and scaling them to miniature forms sometimes using original blueprints.
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Toyland Machinery
New York
Fortune Magazine
Fortune
Chiang Puts Damper On Statues of Self
President Chiang Kai-shek ordered funds redirected from statues of himself to welfare on Formosa. The directive came through his secretary-general after a statue honoring him was unveiled on his sixty-sixth birthday. Additional statues planned on Formosa and nearby islands were halted.
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Chiang
Taipeh
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Nerve studies boost precision in chordotomy pain surgery
The article reports on refinements in chordotomy to halt pain from cancer and other sources. Under local anesthesia, patients remain conscious and guide the surgeon by signaling when pinpricks are felt as nerve pain lines are severed. Studies by Schwartz and O Leary at Washington University map pain pathways from the thalamus to the brain.
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Altor L. Blakeslee
Associated Freas
ST. Louis
Henry G. Schwartz
Schwartz
O'Leary
Girprick
Ottawa Mayor Predicts a Woman President in U S
Ottawa mayor Miss Charlotte Whitton, a trailblazing leader and the only woman mayor of a capital in the British Commonwealth, predicts a woman will be U S president within ten years. She notes America may do it for publicity and cites her restless, outspoken style. She became mayor after Grenville Goodwin’s death in 1951.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Charlotte Whitton
British Commonwealth
Short
Stocky End
White House
Miss Whitton
Britain
Rusty
Grenville Goodwin
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Éth Ave
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March of Science
M. J
Utah Fish and Game Commission
Herbert Knutson
2Nd Associates
University of Rhode Island
Kingston
U.S
M. N. Bank
Cook
1814 Ave
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