Coalition government may emerge in 1956 election
Analysts foresee a possible split government in November 1956 with Democrats controlling the House and Senate while President Eisenhower seeks re election. The piece notes Democratic margins in the House and Senate vulnerabilities for Republicans and suggests voters may effectively enforce a coalition style balance between the executive and legislative branches.
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White House
House of Representatives
Morse
Oregon
Senate
Solid South
House
Eisenhower
Cars of the Future from the 1900s vision
The article discusses Francis Bellamy and Jules Verne influence, then presents Raymond Loewy on future cars. It predicts more traffic and cars, semi automatic driving, higher living standards, and a strong safety emphasis. It notes rising fatalities and urges studying cars as human engineering with more thorough urban roads and parking by 2005.
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Francis Bellamy
Jules Verne
Raymond Loewy
Society of Automotive Engineers
Atlantic Monthly
Mother Nature in Jail Ad Calls for Productivity Reform
A machine tool firm markets an advertisement arguing against shorter hours for the same pay. It warns that restricting output raises costs and reduces jobs, promoting modern machinery and efficiency while criticizing government price and wage controls. It cites nature as the world’s largest employer and questions communism.
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Mother Nature
Nature
ANTICS OF TEENAGERS AT SCIENCE CONTEST SURFACE TALENT
The Des Moines Register notes top young minds in a national science contest. An 18-year-old Enhuyler Jr photographed radioactive samples to identify parent nuclei. An 18-year-old Princeton HS senior built and operates a radar set studying weather. A 17-year-old measures light variation from a star cluster. Another teen develops a solid fuel and engine for combustion.
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Enhuyler
Princeton, N. J
Earth
Dulles Burma visit shows cool start then cordial talks
Secretary Dulles met Premier U Nu in Rangoon amid silent cross exchanges before long discussions grew warm. A separate incident reveals a gas tank mishap during a simulated atomic alert. Khrushchev’s corn plan questioned. Teamsters bargaining row cited. Rayburn to Eisenhower exchange noted at White House photographers dinner shows no hard feelings.
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John Foster Dulles
Southeast Asia
Burma
Rangoon
U Nu
Dulles
White House
Sam Rayburn
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Statler
Rayburn
Eisenhower
Senator Kerr Scott Proposes World Food Bank Plan
Washington. Senator William Kerr Scott of North Carolina unveils a maiden resolution to create a world food bank to aid nations in hunger and repay when better times return. He argues the plan could combat communism and banish world hunger, a long held aim he has pursued for years. The 58 year old, famed as a rustic figure from North Carolina farming circles, says the idea drew him to the Senate and he remains deeply homespun and humorous in conversation.
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Kerr Scott
World Food Bank
Washington
Senate
William Kerr Scott
North Carolina
Scott
Capitol Hill
Rel
J. 8. Dorton
North Carolina State Fair
Notes on the News by Charles Pearson
Senator Scott’s antics and backers surface in a humorous look at political posturing and memory lapses. An old sawmill acquaintance riffs on Scott’s time in Washington and jokes about roll calls, background sketches, and the front door in the capital.
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Cable
Scott
George
Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
Orange County
N. C
Washington
McCary
Weather and public life mix in March reflections
The piece surveys warmer days after a brutal cold spell that damaged fruit crops across Illinois Georgia the Carolinas and North Carolina with losses exceeding thirty million dollars. It frames natural events as Acts of God and notes man learns to work with nature through soil conservation and weather awareness. It also honors Rev. R Murphy Williams 86 a Greensboro pastor emeritus and soldier of the Cross.
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Illinois
Georgia
Carolinas
North Carolina
Walter C. Comer
Walter
Piedmont
R. Murphy Williams
Cone Memorial Hospital
Greensboro
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant
Keeley Institute
E. L. Stamey
Tragedy and disasters stain the capital week
Lynn Nisbet surveys repeated natural calamities from drought and Hurricane Hazel to unprecedented subfreezing temperatures. He notes vast and rising losses, especially to fruit and vegetable growers, and warns of continuing local hail and wind damage this summer.
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Hazel
Finance Committee
Quote laden remarks mark partisan exchanges in senate
The fragment cites Sen A Watkins and Rep Timothy Sheehan, with others criticizing Matusow, hoover, and Republicans over policies for the average person. The text reveals partisan rhetoric and name mentions without full context.
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