Quiz prompts on history and science trivia
A list of ten trivia questions covers topics from the first atomic bomb and World War I to library classification and Newtonian gravity. It asks for years since events, authors, institutions, occupational terms, creation dates, population origins, Bambi the deer, wartime presidents, and Newton’s century.
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New Mexico
England
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
United States
Isaac Newton
Twenty Years Ago Highlights from Journal Files
Nostalgic review covers a 1933 benefit at the Senior High School auditorium for Red Cross footwear, and a 1953 Corry Independents season opener with North East at Athletic Field. Also details embezzlement sentences for Kaufmann's Stores staff, UN and U.S. security hearings, and personnel policy debates surrounding Dag Hammarskjold era.
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NRA
Red Cross
King
Corry Independents
North East
Athletic Field
Settlement in train wreck fatality secures $14000
Erie man receives 14000 award approved by Judge Samuel J. Roberts in the death of Eth el Quinn, wife of Reumon Quinn, one of 21 killed in a NYC train wreck near West Springfield last March. The court settlement covers funeral expenses and death compensation with allocations to the couple’s sons and legal fees. Harman sworn in Philadelphia as regional director of the Small Business Administration for PA DE and southern NJ.
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Erie
Conneaut
Erte
Nyc
West Springfield
Erie County
Samuel J. Roberts
Reumon Quinn
Ethel
N ¥C
Atty
Joseph V. Agresti
Quinn
Robert
Oscar
Harman
Philadelphia
William 4. Harman
Merion
Small Business Administration
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New Jersey
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Republican Finance Committee of
Hotel workers reject pay cut in Pittsburgh strike vote
In Pittsburgh six hotels including William Penn and Sheridan vote 1647 to 28 against a 15 percent pay cut proposal with a Septem ber 30 walkout set by Local 237 AFL Hotel and Restaurant Workers Alliance. John J. Kenny leads the union of about 2200 workers.
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Pittsburgh
John J. Kenny
AFL Hotel and Restaurant Workers Alliance
Ile William Penn
Pittsburgher
Roosevelt
Sheraton
Schenley
Webster
Release Ex-Roommate From Slaying Probe In Philadelphia
Detectives released John C. Beardsmore a 26 former roommate of Elmer Schroeder a 55 year old attorney and soccer official after questioning they say he had no involvement in the murder Beardsmore said Schroeder asked him to move in due to illness and he lived there several weeks before returning to his own quarters with minimal further contact
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Sportsman's
Philadelphia
Elmer Schroeder
John C. Beardsmore
Schroeder
Beardsmore
Ousted Korean Official Park Hun Yung Fled to Japan
South Korea says ex foreign minister Park Hun Yung has been spirited to safety in Japan. A U S Army spokesman in Tokyo denies knowledge of his whereabouts while ROK intelligence accuses American officers of engineering his escape. Park, once the No 1 Red in South Korea, fled before the war and later faced purges for alleged spying.
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Seoul
Park Hun Yung
Red North Korea
Japan
U. S. Army
Tokyo
Park
ROK Nationalee
Pyongyang
Gen Nam Ii
South Korea
U. S
North Korea
America
United States
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Federal Credit Union
John J. Cain
Nana V. Nicoll
Joseph B. Campbell
Campbell
Nicoll
Cain
FBI
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U.N
Senate
Internal Security
New York
U.N. Secretariat
U. N
Lie
Internal Security Subcommittee
State Department
Administrative Tribunal
Dag Hammaarskjold
Hammarskjold
L. King
Phoenix
East Main Street
Columbus, O
Comy Bleacher Company
Arthur Shields
J. A. Lanston Company
St. James Building
South Center Street
Ted Treat
Union City
Curly” Williams
Kiwanis Club
Marshall
Acheson
Hiis
General Assembly
Communist Party
France
Canada
Netherlands
Pete Tanta Tee
Umton
REX Theater
Bob Desmond
West Church St
Al's
Martha Manning
Albthar
Harpers Bazaar
Katherine
North Center Street
B.F. Goodrich
Chevrolet
Pontiac
Olosmobile
B.f.goodrich
BFG
Plymouth
Taos LifeSaver
Ayer
B. F. Goodrich
Powell Motor CO
Center Street
Seaforth
DMANN
W. F. Rickers
Allen St
Py de Parey Apia
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