United States Auto Industry Faces Postwar Growth and Exports
The automotive sector moved from a minor supplier to a dominant economic force with 1949 payrolls around 2.24 billion and about nine million related workers when including sellers and service. California led passenger car totals at 3.35 million. 1949 average car age was 8.4 years, trucks older by two years. Exports declined due to dollar shortages, with only about 280,000 vehicles shipped abroad, less than five percent of production. Major automakers posted record interim profits in 1949.
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United States
California
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Twliners
Automobile Manacturers Association
Cary
General Motors
Chrysler
Studebaker
Twenty Years Ago from Journal Files January 18 1930
Recap of events from twenty years earlier notes a January conference at the Municipal Building attended by mayors and burgesses to unite towns against costly state bureau demands. Reports also mention improvements at the Senior High heating system, removal of street-front restaurant screens with interior lighting visible from the street, a severe injury to Floyd Arnink when a tree toppled during tree biting, birth of a son to Merle and wife on Spartansbury Road, and Arctic mosquito studies by Canadian and American scientists near Hudson Bay.
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C. L. Alexander
Harrisburg
Funeral services held for Frank J. Lathrop at Bracken-Keating Home
Funeral service in memory of Frank J. Lathrop was held Thursday at 2 PM at Bracken-Keating Funeral Home with Rev. Harry Bowman officiating. Bearers were Raymond Mfg. Co. workers James Maloney George Stanford Sr. Ross Mead Fred Mixer Harold Carr and William Haenel. Interment in Pine Grove Cemetery. Attending from away were Marie Landers Erie Freq Lathrop Dewittville Leslie Smith Ripley John Smith Kearsarge Grant Smith Thomas Cooney.
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Frank J. Lathrop
Frank Lathrop
Bracken-Keating Funeral
Harry &. Bowman
Raymond Mfg. Company
James Maloney
George Stanford
Ross Mead
Fred Mixer
Harold Carr
William Haenel
Pine Grove Cemetery
Marie Landers
Erie
Freq Lathrop
Dewittville
Leslie Smith
Ripley
John Smith
Kearsarge
Grant Smith
Thomas Cooney
Clymer
Dunkirk Pilot Loses Wrestling Match With Light Airplane
Fredonia N Y pilot suffered cuts and bruises after an improvised wrestling bout with his Piper Cub at Dunkirk Airport went awry. Harry Rosselot clung to a runaway plane as it careened across the field smashing into a wind direction sign and tearing a wing before crash damage.
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Dunkirk
Duneire
Jun
Fredonia
N.Y
Harry Rasselot
Rooselot
Rosselot
New Vehicle Market Seen In 1950 Growth Spurts
A report notes a surge in auto shows across cities with price cuts signaling buyer power shift from seller. The U S Commerce Department foresees 1950 sales 10 to 20 percent below 1949, despite 1949 production hitting a record 6.2 million vehicles and an earlier 17 percent rise over 1948 aiding the economy.
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U. S. Department of Commerce
Seven Area Drivers Have Licenses Suspended
The Bureau of Highway Safety suspended seven drivers in the region marking one of the largest suspensions in months. The affected individuals include Harold Armitage of 21 East Main Street Laverne Ayers of 2314 West Park Place William Carroll Orry A D 3 Thomas Post of Wattsburg Ronald Shields of Waterford Rodney McGrea of Union City and Harry Anderson of Waterford 4
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Bureau of Highway Safety Today
Harold Armitage
East Main Street
Laverne Ayers
West Park Place
William Carroll
Orry
A.D
Thomas Post
Wattsburg
Ronald Shields
Waterford
Rodney McGrea
Union City
Harry Anderson
How's Your I Q Answers From Classified Page
A vintage quiz lists ten questions grading IQ levels from Genius to Poor. It asks about Friday superstition, number 12, zero, sound in a vacuum, proverb completion, rubber tree geography, 1907 U S president, daycees, Virginia creeper habitat, and Jan Smuts’ association with South Africa.
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Rees
United States
Jan Christian Smuts
Netherlands
Germany
Union of South Africa
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Grand River
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Powell
Centar St
Womens Shoes
Childrens
Boleros
Joan
Bete Gay Beal
Myre
North Center ST
pLerabia Day
Rine
Yardley
Richard Hudnut
Odin
Bella
Ansel Wan
Jewelers
Zoi
Fay
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Kle
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