Central Valley irrigation plan grants vast Western land water
The article outlines a two-part look at California’s Central Valley irrigation project intended to equalize water resources across the surplus north and southern two-thirds. It describes storing northern valley waters behind Shasta and Folsom dams and releasing them downstream to irrigate over one million acres.
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iThia
California
Central Valley
Shasta
Sacramento River
Folsom
American River
Tracy
Mendota Pool
San Joaquin River
San Joaquin
Friant Dam
San Joaquin Valley
Bakersfield
Madera County
West
United States
Red Sheen and Tales of Hoffman Screenings by Pressburger
Filmmakers Meric Pressburger Michael Powell and Hein Heckroth push beyond Red Sheen with Tales of Hoffman filmed on elaborate sets. Beecham directs the score with groundbreaking dubbing as Columbia Pictures signs on to a major deal. The water project details outline vast reclamation gains, costs, and long term benefits across the western United States.
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Meric Pressburger
Michael Powell
Hein Heckroth
Talen of Hoffman
Mr. Heckroth
Opera
The
Sadlers
Wells Ballet
Thomas Beecham
Pressburger
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Across clues list answers with numbers and odd spellings from a crossword style tally. The fragment shows varied entries such as a list of terms for birds, fruits, body parts, and adjectives, interwoven with numeral marks and language hints. The readable portion hints at a word puzzle theme from a newspaper page.
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Perth
Persia
Futlands
Jamia
Romance in the Elevator at Brent Building
In a Brent Building six story, Professor Ted Davis, longtime elevator starter, works with Valerie as she attends college and a romance unfolds amid castanets and crowding riders. Ted faces a choice between steady but low paid elevator work and finishing college for marriage, while Valerie urges him to pursue education despite his feelings. The professor reflects on a life spent in routine and no clear path for advancement.
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Brent Building
Ted Davis
Tod
Valerie
Ted
Mr. Davis
Grassroots farmers reap prosperity under government support
Wright A Patterson notes that farm prosperity has risen since the 1920s and 1930s. By 1950 there were 6.372 million farms with average size 105 acres, mortgage foreclosures nearly over, and an average farm value around 14 200. Production per man hour rose over the past decade, with farming contributing over 80 billion dollars in output and more than six million producing units sharing in the gains.
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Ufe Insurance Company
Tax program urged by TH Committee for Economic Development
The TH Committee for Economic Development proposes a 1951 52 federal budget cut of 8 billion and a 10 billion pay as you go tax increase. It calls for a 6 percent tax on taxable income, a corporate profits tax raising top rates to 60 percent, higher excises on autos and durable goods, new taxes on alcohol tobacco gasoline and other items, and added taxes on dividends and cooperative businesses. It warns of a shift from surplus to a 13 billion deficit by 1963 and notes farm incomes fell sharply from 1949 to 1950 despite overall national income growth.
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Congress
Departments of Labor and Agriculture
Sen
Allen Ellender
Committee On Agriculture
Igsts
Labor
Bitter fight seen over farm price support repeal
The congress faces a sharp clash over repealing farm price supports with four major farm groups opposing, New York Farm Bureau backing abolition in a Wall Street Journal ad funded by a controversial committee. The debate centers on price levels, inflation, and parity, while tax policy proposals draw mixed reactions from labor and political factions.
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Congress
Washington
New York Farm Bureau Federation
Wall Street Journal
Committee For Constitutional Government
Senate
Classified Department Miscellany and Help Wanted Ads
A dense classified page fragment lists highway driver recruitment at Brady Motor Freight Fort Dodge Iowa with benefits and housing. It also shows miscellaneous ads for real estate, business sales, merchandise, seeds and plants, and flower deliveries with specific local names across Iowa and nearby states.
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Fort Dodge
Jows
Maso
Alstrace
Farntime Maverk
Cantae Brady Motor Freight
Jaws
Goa
Ray Hogan
Chevrolet
Worthington
Iawa
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Barry Cohn
Columbia Pictures
Stanley Kramer
Kramer
Board of Directors
Motion Picture Association
WeEx
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Peporter
Paris
Madera Teraam
W. Towles
FO Bank
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Towa
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Donald Heave
Caryden
Jenkinson
Marathon
L. G. Ellaghonn
Eddyville
Lowe
Jacobson and Brigtol
Waukon
Iowa
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Ash
Delly Plstne
Flower CO
Knoxville
Svever
McA Wahlert & Guntzler
Fred J. Lauterbach
Martell
Nebeta
U.S. Defense
Beach
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