U S Economy Strength Told During Chicago Talk
Harvard economist Alvin H. Hansen says the American economy has operated for nearly 20 years without a major depression due to government policy and expenditures. He describes a mixed public private economy with stabilizing fiscal and monetary actions and notes full employment and prosperity since 1941.
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Chicago
Harvard
Alvin H. Hansen
Hansen
University of Chicago
Charles R Walgreen Foundation
Life Insurance Growth Reaches New California Record
California families hold $30.184 billion in life insurance protection at year start, a new high, with 10 year growth of 235 percent. Of this, $17.161 billion sits in 5.25 million ordinary policies, $10.284 billion in group life under 3.372 million certificates, and $1.784 billion in 4.398 million industrial policies. Industry president Holgar J. Johnson notes postwar gains and planning role.
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California
Institute of Life Insurance
Holgar J. Johnson
Institute
Home Builders Name Secretary for Eastbay Chapter
William C. McFarland was appointed field secretary for the Associated Home Builders of the Greater Eastbay. The announcement came from John S. Hennessy, the association’s executive vice president. McFarland, a Vincennes Indiana native, attended Palo Alto schools and served as a Naval Air Cadet during World War II. He studied engineering at the University of Idaho and earned economics from Indiana University, plus a UC bachelor’s degree.
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Associated Home Builders
Greater
Eastbay
John S. Hennessy
Association
Vincennes
Ind
McFarland
Palo Alto
St. Mary’s Preight
University of Idaho
Indiana University
University of California
Paris night train murder mystifies police in Hitchcock style case
Paris police probe a first class railway murder after a 20 hour night express from Quimper arrived at Montparnasse. The 75 year old Paul Bonnamy, retired inspector of the National Airways and secretary general of a regional wholesale grocers group, was found dead with a blunt instrument wound. A missing wallet and a 12 000 franc card file were found. two men and a woman traveled with him from Quimper. Police identify two men who left the train later and seek motive.
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Paris
Ins
Paris-Montparnasse
Quimper
Brittany
Roger Guerist
Guenet
Paul Bonnamy
National Airways
Armange
Bannamy
Rosporden
Armanage
Bonnamy
Rise of juvenile drunkenness alarms Britain 1935 report says
An economic research council annual report notes an alarming 82 percent rise in convictions for drunkenness among under 21s from 1954 to 1955. It highlights more young girls drinking, and youth offenses surpassing older groups two and a half times. Figures from 22 county boroughs cover 1950 to 1955.
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London
Economic Research Council
Geng
England
Wales
Story Hour Series To Start Tomorrow At San Lorenzo Library
The San Lorenzo branch of the Alameda County Public Library opens a six week summer story hour series tomorrow at 10 30 am. Two groups will meet simultaneously for a half hour for kindergarten through second grade and third through fourth grade. Mothers and teachers listed include H C Angersen Tausheee Grantow Brink Harris Relph Runavaar Gett mar Plankinton and Dougherty with Ray Laughtin as co chair.
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San Lorenzo
Alameda County
Russell Tausheee
Ray Grantow
Donald Brink
John Harris
Relph Runavaar
Ben Gettmar
John Plankinton
Robert Dougherty
Ray Laughtin
Plankinton
Armed Girl, 14 Shot in Chase in Baltimore
A 14 year old girl Norma Ruth wielding a shotgun sparked a 15 minute running gun battle with about a dozen police in Baltimore streets. She fired at officers, was shot in the ankle by a pursuer, and was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins. Her father notes psychiatric treatment.
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Baltimore
INS
Norma Ruth
Norma
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Reserve Tankers Set for New Duty
The Navy tapped the maritime administration reserve fleet at Olympia to obtain seven T-2 tankers of 16,600 tons each. Private firms will operate the ships carrying petroleum on world routes for the military sea transportation service out of San Pedro and California.
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Wash
Navy
Maritime Administration
Rarrying Petroleum
Military Sea ‘Transportation Service
San
Pedro
Cali
Fitness drive urged Eisenhower appeal in youth program
A group of national leaders backed a plan for a nationwide youth fitness movement. They urged President Eisenhower to personally appeal for support and pressed schools to expand vigorous fitness programs with incentives, tax exemptions, and public campaigns. Private and government groups would fund and promote the effort across local, state, and national levels.
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Annapolis
Eisenhower
Conference of Fitness of
Kingsbury Smith
International News Service
Smith
Thomas G. Pullen Jr
Maryland
Pasic
Science ways to slow time in space travel
Pasadena reports scientists hint a method to slow time via relativity. At high speeds near light, space travelers would age less than Earth observers, but achieving such velocities demands vast energy and mass increases that challenge propulsion and power systems.
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Pasadena
Earth
United Press
Richard P.feynman
California Institute of Technology
Instem
Tims
Ex Convict admits killing Tulsa minister near Muskogee
Edward Leon Williams admitted slaying Rev. Tommie Robert Cooke after a ride from Tulsa to near Muskogee where the body was found along the Arkansas River. Williams, 26, had been captured on a bus at Poteau following a robbery arrest attempt. He wrecked Cooke’s car during a confrontation at a Tulsa gas station and said I had to kill him.
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Muskogee
Okla
Tulsa
Tommie Robert Cooke
Glenwood Baptist Church
Cooke
Edward Leon
Pete) Williams
Oklahoma
Texas
Indiana
Poteau, Onis
Williams
Arkansas’ River
Tape Recorder For Driver Test In California
California adopts a tape recorder for driver license tests to aid applicants with weak English. Examiner Stanley Bruns in San Francisco proposed slow voiced instructions with true false markings to streamline testing. the idea reduces time and manpower. Lansing briefly flirted with Frog ville as a capital name before settling elsewhere.
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Sacramento
California
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Stanley Bruns
San Francisco
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