Anniversary of Air Express Service Marks 20th Year
New York notes the twentieth anniversary of the first scheduled air express flight. The inaugural one engine byplane flew from Hadley Field New Brunswick New Jersey. The service now includes 25 certified airlines on 70 000 miles of domestic routes reaching 1 000 air port cities in the U S and Canada and 60 foreign countries.
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New York
INS
United States
Hadley Field
New Brunswick
N. J
National Service Today
Canada
Prohibitionists Triumph In Struggle To Dry Up One-Third of The Nation
A nationwide dry movement reports broad gains since repeal with 12 000 wins in 20 000 local option elections and over 25 million Americans restricted from liquor. Kentucky stands as a key battlefield with 82 percent dry and 92 counties dry, while Alabama revenue concerns derail statewide bans. Leaders Capper Bryson push for prohibition as momentum grows.
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NEA
United States
Frederick G. Brownell
American Magazine
Kansas
Mississipi
Oklahoma
Chicago
Kentucky
Brownell
Alabama
Department of Commerce cites average candy intake in America
The Department of Commerce reports that the average American consumes more than 18 pounds of candy annually, highlighting rising Sweets consumption trends across the United States.
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Department of Commerce
Bell from USS Anderson rests in South Carolina VFW hall
The bell from the destroyer escort USS Anderson, sunk during Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll, has been placed in a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Anderson, South Carolina. The VFW filed to acquire it after war correspondent James R. Young helped secure the artifact. a nameplate is expected soon. The piece will be showcased at a proper home later.
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Anderson
8. C
INS
U. S. S. Anderson
Pacific
Bikini Atoll
Veterans of Foreign Wars
South Carolina
James R. Young
Bikini
Young
Navy Department
Congress
VFW Post
VFW
Nuernberg Eggs Spark Early Watch History
Early watches included globular forms known as Nuernberg eggs from the German city of manufacture. New Zealand settlers were a mix of Scotch English Irish Danish Norwegian Swedish and some French German and American. A patent was issued for a device measuring returning sensitivity to skin areas with severed nerve supply from injuries or war wounds.
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Nuernberg
New Zealand
Dr Rowe to Teach Here Next Week at Wesley Memorial
The annual church school workers training school for High Point Methodists starts next Sunday at 7 30 PM in Wesley Memorial church. Dr Gilbert T Rowe of Duke University opens with a session on Christian Beliefs and conducts a course. Carl H King directs with six courses led by Methodist leaders.
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High Point Methodist
Wesley Memorial Church
Gilbert T. Rowe
Duke University
Western North Carolina Conference Board of Education
Methodist Church
Department of the Church School
King
Adelf Blankembaker
Roanoke
C .A. Rauschenburg
Atlanta
J. A. Gray
Marietta
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Nell Webb
Salisbury
Reid Wall
Thomasville
Stork Special Ambulance Boosts Chicago Premature Baby Survival
The Chicago Board of Health cites a 75 percent survival rate for premature babies, far above the national 25 percent. The Stork Special ambulance, with a portable incubator and oxygen tent, carries infants from home to hospital under nurse supervision, saving more than 800 lives last year.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Board of Health
Herman N. Bundeson
STORK
Scientists Probe Pre Historic Mogollon Site
Chicago based teams from the Chicago Natural History Museum will dig 7 000 feet up in Western New Mexico to study Mogollon Indian relics from about 500 A D They found undecorated pottery and stone tools with depressions suggesting an ancient Mogollon pit house village near a reserve two expedition members Dr John Rinaldo and FE B Sayle led the discovery Cats are color blind and see gray tones.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Natural History Museum
New Mexico
John Rinaldo
FE. B. Sayle
University of Ari- Prona
Dixie Newsprint Project Could End Canadian Monopoly
Atlanta reports that Southern newsprint ventures since 1932 have invested about 100000 dollars in research to challenge the Canadian monopoly. Southland mills near Lufkin Texas and a new Alabama plant at Childersburg are expanding to 400000 tons annually by 1948 1949, promising a southern supply to ease the paper shortage and boost regional industry.
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Atlanta
Lufkin
Tex
South
Southland Mills
Texas
Alabama
Southland
Alabama Enterprise
Alabama Ordnance Works
Childersburg
Birmingham
Charles H. Herty
Savannah
Waycross
U. S
Herty
Georgia
New York
Southern
Georgia Daily
State of Georgia
Certain - Teed Corporation
Beaver Wood Fibre Company
Canada
Alabama Firm
The
Coosa River Newsprint Company
Alabama Company
Skin Cancers Being Treated With Beef Extracts
In St Louis a progress report from Dr Joseph Amershach and Dr Leo Nutini notes 33 of 48 patients with skin cancer showed complete disappearance after treatment with beef spleen and lamb liver extracts. Recurrence occurred in five of the 33. most remaining improved, with followups from two to four years.
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ST. Louis
Joseph C. Amershach
New York City
Leo G. Nutini
Cincinnati
Horns blamed for many ailments in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh official Orbert E. Cole of the Pittsburgh Motor Club says car horns cause various ailments from tense musses to fast pulse though he opposes abolishing the horn. He notes drivers blasting before lights change and mentions divining rods still used by superstitious water seekers.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Orbert E. Cole
Pittsburgh Motor Club
Symptons
Britain Seeks Oil Boost as Midlands Potential Emerges
Britain turns to oil exploration with Anglo Iranian Oil Company leading a 1946 crude output of 55 587 tons a drop of over 16 000 tons from the prior year. Experts see large reserves to develop in the Midlands and other regions.
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London
INS
Britain
Anglo- Iranian Oil Company
United Kingdom
Midlands
Russia Biggest Buyer of War Surplus Material Says WAA
Levy Anderson regional director of war assets administration reports in an annual form that Russia purchased nearly half of all war surplus materials sold. Brazil ranks second and Argentina third in purchases.
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Philadelphia
INS
Levy Anderson
War Assets Administration
Russia
Ande
Brazil
Argentina
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