Trivia Grab Bag Highlights From History
A compact quiz reveals inventors of the telegraph, Boise’s capital city, and a monarch known for wood chopping. defines petrified forests and common charges. recalls 1743 Faneuil Hall meeting after Peter Faneuil’s death. notes 1868 Gorky’s birth and 1925 first transatlantic radio broadcast. Also asks for the name of a famed humanitarian leader and a Naval officer born in Annapolis.
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Boise
Faneuil Hall
Boston
Peter Faneuil
Maxim Gorky
Navy official rises to NATO supreme commander
The Defense Department announced that the officer will head NATO with headquarters at Norfolk Virginia, attaining parity with General Dwight D Eisenhower as supreme Allied commander in Europe. The officer, once vice chief of naval operations in 1950, was named early in 1952 to the top NATO post.
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United States Naval Operations
Washington
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States Naval Base
Norfolk
Defense Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Renovate verb definition and origin notes
Renovate defined as a transitive verb meaning to restore life vigor activity and to renew or repair. Its origin traces to Latin renovatus the participle of renovare from novus new.
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Renovatus
Renovare
Birthday Congratulations to Noted Figures
Today we honor Albert Einstein renowned mathematician and physicist Reginald Marsh celebrated painter and etcher and Mrs Osa Johnson famed big game hunter explorer and author with birthday wishes from the community.
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Albert Einstein
Reginald Marsh
Osa Johnson
Fragmentary 1950s snippets mix science oddities and opinion
A collage of mid-century notes covers tomatoes grown with reflectors in Alaska, old maxims on conscience, a 1718 Christmas pudding, and price changes since 1939. It also notes California apparel growth, overseas troops, silverware trends, and humorous quips on questions and aging.
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Alaska
George Washington
Red Lion Inn
Southmark
England
Florida
Ohio
NAM Attacks Price Wage Controls in Senate Hearing
The National Association of Manufacturers urged the Senate Banking Committee to let price wage controls expire on schedule. William J. Grede argued for removing the controls law and for separate legislation to extend the Federal Reserve Board's power over installment buying and consumer credit. He warned continued controls would mismanage the economy, cause shortages and lower living standards. The piece also notes Baron compound usage with steel as an alloy with borax.
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Washington
National Association of Manufacturers
William J. Grede
NAM
Senate
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Grede
Woman Sent Rat Through Mail in Jealous Dispute
Edith Pfuell of Leominster charged with sending a rat to a rival wife. Her lawyer argued the rat was in good condition and not noxious, calling it a gay young frisker. The court found her innocent after she claimed to tutor the rival in behavior.
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Leominster
England
Edith Pfuell
Haled
Robert Browning
Pachinko Craze Grows in Japan with 200000 Machines
In Tokyo a government finance committee reports about 200000 pachinko machines, roughly one per 415 residents of Japan’s 83 million. Sociologists call it a sign of a defeated, occupied people and a civic escape. A Tokyo doctor even provides a Pachinko game for waiting patients.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kan man wins inaugural International Orange Juice Contest
J D Hall of Manhattan Kansas won by drinking 32 six ounce glasses of orange juice in Orlando Florida. Walter Marsland of Spokane Washington finished second, one glass behind Hall.
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Orlando, Fla
J.D. Hall
Manhattan
Kan
Hall
Walter Marsland
Spokane
Wash
Stock List New York 1 p m prices and totals
New York stocks at 1 p m show Adams Express 32 percent Admiral, Air Reduction, Allied Chemical 72 percent, American Tel & Tel 144, Bethlehem Steel 49, Boeing Aircraft 48, Chrysler 724s, Continental Can 4, Dow Chemical 105, Eastman Kodak 44, General Foods, Montgomery Ward 61, Motorola 70, National Cash Register 64, Union Carbide 59, United Airlines 7, United States Steel 60, Western Union 39, Zenith 19, with total sales to 1 p m of 720,000.
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New York
Adams Express
Admiral
Chrysler Corporation
Cela
Columbia Gas & Elea
Curtis Wright Ener
Curtis Wright A
Davison Chemical
Delaware Lack & West
Douglas Aircraft
Dow Chemical
Dupont de Nemour
Eastern Airlines
Eastman Kodak
Electric Auto Lite
Emerson R&p
General Foods Gillette Razor
Glidden
Goodrich Rubber
Goodyear Rubber
International Harvest
Int
Nickel Can
Kennecott Copper Tenner
Kroger Company
Libby Owen Ford
Montgomery Ward
North American Avia
Northern Pacific
Ohio Oil Company
Oits Elevator
Pacific Gas & Elec
Paramount Pictures
Penney J. C. Co
Pennsylvania RR
Pile ‘Corp
Philips Petroleum
Pitsburgh Ser & Sak
Necrossssinerses Reale
Keith Orpheum
Remington Rand
Ceee
Bccesscee
Southern Pacific
Eee
Standard Oil
Stevens, É. P. Co
Stewart Warner
Texas Company
Tex Gulf
Texas Gulf
Textron Corporation
Timken
Trans & Western Air
Trans Amectica
Union Carbide
West Maryland
Western Union
No Weeds On Barbados Isle Report
Washington dispatch notes Barbados, a sugar island, has eliminated weeds through 300 years of intensive cultivation. Charles Allman cites National Geographic Magazine observations on pervasive weed control, soil conservation, and fertilizer use amid a tropical climate with seasonal rainfall.
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Washington
Barbados
Caribbean
Charles Allman
National Geographic Magazine
Greensboro Man Killed In Gaffney Oil Truck Crash
Greensboro resident Jack Lashley, 25, was killed Wednesday when he was thrown from a panel truck into the wheels of an oil tank. The truck driver, E Morris Jr., 34, of Gaffney, swerved to avoid stopped vehicles and was struck on its side by the panel truck.
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Gaffney
S. C
Jack E. Millwood
Greensboro
N. C
Muilliwood
Jack Lashley
E. Morris, Jr
Millwood
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