International cooperation builds Trieste Fortuna Shoe Plant
Trieste launches Fortuna Shoe Co with American funds from the Allied Military Government. Thomas A. McCann of Minneapolis obtained a 90 million lire loan to import a Boston factory and hire Italian Yugoslav workers using raffia from Madagascar. The plant produces hand woven beach shoes, aiming for 6000 pairs daily, selling in the US, England, Germany and Scandinavia.
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Trieste
NEA
New Fortuna Shoe Co
Madagascar
Thomas A. McCann
Minneapolis
McCann
Boston
Fortuna
Florence
Italy
Lubbajana
Yugoslavia
U.S
England
Germany
Scandinavia
AMG
Wild youth shoots family then cornered by police in Palm Beach
A 16 year old Berry shot his mother in law and father and a patrolman before being captured near his Palm Beach home. Police listed him as a dangerous case. The manhunt involved more than 50 officers, bloodhounds and fire units. The grandmother suffered severe injuries and doctors described her as very serious. The youth carried a 410 gauge shotgun and claimed his grandmother would leave him six hundred thousand dollars after death. The incident triggered Palm Beach's largest manhunt.
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Palm Reach
Fle
Hugh
Berry
Jamaica Lane
Hugh McClung
Samaritan Caroual
Thomas H. Berry
Knoxville
Tenn
Army
Tyler Watts
Beach Caney Club
W. Bateman
Bateman
Forest Dana
Dagg
Island
Palm Beach
Annece Ote
Smuggling Brings Enormous Profit
Bangkok reports Thai police and customs tightening measures against smuggling of dollars block goods to Singapore and Hong Kong. L Thawin Sresthaphanichkarn from the Foreign Trade department says prices rise to three times those in neighboring countries. The commerce ministry will clamp down on re exports of these goods bought with foreign exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok
Singapore
Hongkong
Thailand
L. Thawin Sresthaphanichkarn
Ministry of Commerce
Words of the Wise and Metro Parks Vision
A comic remark on romance cites Oscar Wilde while noting the National Capitol Parks drive to make cheaper, adjacent areas part of the world’s largest metropolitan park system in the nation.
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Shenandoah National Park
Virginia
National Capitol
Symptoms of a Disorder That May Affect the Kneecap
Medical article describes knee patella disorders from cartilage changes to age related overgrowth. Symptoms include front knee pain and occasional locking. Treatments range from exercise and bandaging to surgery removing loose cartilage or the patella, with X-ray aiding diagnosis. Related Q&A notes petechiae causes including meningitis and leukemia.
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Julaus Hum
Thomas A. McCaon
Wesley Haraldson
Burkner's
Bartner Furniture Company
E. Green ST
TEL
Bureau of Mines
U. S
Pucoto Flash
Lee Gaye
Rita Beller
Donna Kims
Jeanne Cameron
Roberta Richardson
Chicago
Chicago Press Photographers Association
By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D
R.A. P
Television Sales & Service
High Point
N. Wrenn ST
DuMont
Television
du Mont
Felix Miller, Jr
George Gold
Sherbrooke Eet Med
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