Auto safety tests push toward leak free fuel systems
Ford engineers at the Dearborn proving ground test a 30 mph barrier crash device called the Spit to detect fuel leaks. The effort targets a new 1976 model fuel leakage standard to prevent gasoline fires after crashes. Testers watch for a red solvent indicating leaks as the car completes a 360 degree turn over seven minutes.
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Edward S. Lechtzin
UPI
Detroit
Texas
Ford Motor Co
Dearborn
U.S
Ford
Jutomakers
Eckhold
Businessmen resist change but accept government safety programs
A Harris survey of 1,143 executives finds businessmen slow to improve working conditions and products on their own. They resist consumer and employee demands until government action prompts acceptance, with many acknowledging favorable results after implementation.
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Jack Eckhold
Automotive Safety Office
Ford
Eckhold
New York
UPI
Harris
Louis Harris and Associates
Wharton School of Business
Sentry Insurance Co
Let’s Talk About Newspaper Advertising
A compact guide to local newspaper advertising benefits and impact. The article traces roots from early notices to modern display ads and argues for maintaining local newspaper presence to maximize regional and local buyer reach. It highlights accumulative effects of multiple ads and previews next week’s topic: display versus classified.
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Forreign
Domestick
Colonies
Woolworth reports record sales and strong 1975 outlook
F W Woolworth Co in New York cites consolidated sales for five weeks ending May 27 at 432.69 million, up 11.6 percent from a year ago, and 18 weeks at 1.3708 billion, up 9.5 percent. Chairman Lester A Burcham expects more than 10 percent 1975 sales growth. Land O Lakes made an 11.3 million cash payment to 825 member cooperatives and 12 142 former members in six Midwest states, based on 1974 business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Woolworth Co
New York
Lester A. Burcham
Land O'Lakes, Inc
Midwest
Ramaekers Charolais Farm steer promotion links Holiday Inn bids
Ramaekers Charolais Farm of Monroe partnered with Holiday Inn of Columbus to promote Nebraska beef through a sale contract for a 1 540 pound Charolais Angus cross steer. Directors of Holiday Inn backed the effort with cattle industry ties. Frank Ramaekers Jr Inn keeper John Laux and others posed with the steer bred from Ramaekers Foundation Seed stock weighing 1 540 pounds with .38 inch backfat and 15.1 square inch loin eye.
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Ramaekers Charolais Farm
Monroe
Holiday Inn of
Columbus
Farmer- Stockman of the
Midwest
The
Drovers Journal
Holiday Inn
Nebraska
Ramaekers
Frank Ramaekers Jr
John Laux
Food Service
Sam Sacco
Connie Baldwin
Ramaekers Foundation
West Germany Brazil sign $4.25 billion nuclear cooperation pact
West Germany and Brazil signed a $4.25 billion treaty for nuclear equipment and uranium ore supply. Brazilian Foreign Minister Azeredo da Silveira pledged no bomb-making intent and opposition to weapons proliferation. Genscher warned reactor fuel could not be diverted to bombs. India built a bomb with a Canadian reactor 43 months earlier.
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Bonn
West Germany
UPI
Brazil
Germany
Antonio F. Azeredo da Silveira
Azeredo da Silveira
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
India
Cengas Delivers Franchise Tax Payment to Shelby Clerk
Cengas paid 2330.85 dollars to Shelby Village Clerk Willis Wills for the 12 month period ending April 30 as part of its natural gas franchise tax. Local manager Chris Dahmke notes the company paid over one million in Nebraska taxes last year across 57 communities, with Shelby receiving a 627,777 dollar share for the period.
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SHELBY — _ Cengas
Shelby Village
Willis Wills
Chris Dahmke
Cengas
Nebraska
Shelby
Dahmke
Postal Service rolls out electric mail delivery fleet Evansville first
Evansville Indiana becomes the first of the 13 state Central Region to test electric delivery trucks. AM General Corp builds the 50 cubic foot, 4 300 pound jeeps for the USPS under a $2 million GSA contract, with 350 vehicles this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
U.S
The
Postal Service
General Services Administration
Temple dean projects changing U S workforce by 1980
Dr. Seymour L. Wolfbein of Temple University predicts half the U S labor force will be female and about one seventh will be black by 1980. He says demand for manual skilled workers will remain strong through the rest of the 1970s.
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Philadelphia
UPD
U.S
Seymour L. Wolfbein
Temple University
Wolfbein
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