Hot Summer Sparks Big Room Cooler Rush in 1951
Record heat drives a surge in room cooler demand with GE forecasting 14 percent next year and industry leaders like Universal Major Appliances and Fedders-Quigan planning sizable output boosts. GE predicts one million units annually by 1961, while current 1951 sales reach about 350000. Other firms anticipate doubled or 75 percent increases.
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New York
Harold B. Donley
General Electric
Morton L. Clark
Universal
Elec. Appliances, Inc
Lima
Fedders-Quigan Corp
Odorex Room Deodorizer Promises Odor Elimination
Odorex deodorizer claims to neutralize offensive odors with a single bomb capable of deodorizing up to 80 rooms. It requires no wick or spray gun and releases a perfumed vapor after use.
Monster Of Mounting Bureaucracy Is Grave Threat
Denver Post editor Palmer Hoyt told about 200 legislators and officials from 12 states at the Midwestern Regional Conference of the Council of State Governments that mounting bureaucracy threatens the nation. He urged local governments to resist burdensome federal aid terms and cautioned state autonomy must be preserved against federal encroachment.
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Milwaukee
Palmer Hoyt
Denver Post
Hoyt
Council of State Governments
Denver
Council
Italy ships lemons worth for beauty aid makers
Tribune notes a want ad item stating Italy ships four lemons valued at 16,800 dollars to Russia for beauty aid production. The brief outlines a cross border shipment related to cosmetic goods and a high stated value.
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Italy
Russia
Wisconsin State Fair hosts talking muskie and conservation display
Outdoors In Wisconsin notes the 1952 Wisconsin State Fair Conservation Department show features a talking muskie as the star gimmick, plus wildlife displays a porcupine dancing rhumba, badger, otter, beavers, fox, musk rats, bear cubs and deer. The park includes aquaria, identification panels, slides, and an outdoor nursery on forestry topics to educate visitors.
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Conservation Department
Fairgrounds
Zip
Progress Reported In Negotiations On Lake Shipping Strike
Detroit reports progress in talks to end the 38 day Great Lakes Licensed Officers strike on auto-railroad ferries in Lake Michigan and the Detroit River. Herman N Booth Jr says Monday night conference was fruitful and more talks planned. Cronk of Chesapeake & Ohio notes a friendlier mood. Twenty two ferries operated by four railroads idle since July 3. The union seeks wage increases and benefits matching Great Lakes freighter officers. Marco Polo is cited as the first European reference to Java in Britannica.
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Detroit
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Detroit River
Herman N. Booth Jr
International Marine
The
Independent Union
Booth
M. M. Cronk
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Union
Ann Arbor
Wabash
Grand Trunk Western
Reynolds Tobacco Heir Tours Island Home With Bride
Reynolds, tobacco heir, shows his Golden Isles island plantation to his third bride Mrs Murial Greenough. The 46-year-old businessman outlines a 72-family community on Sapelo Island while detailing cattle, timber, road projects and a world cruise planned aboard their yacht. The couple wed last week and Reynolds ended active duties at R J Reynolds Tobacco Co.
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Sapelo Island
R. J. Reynolds
Golden Isles
Reynolds
Associated Press
Murial Greenough
Gordon C. King
Darien
Georgia
Thomas Spalding
Angus and Brahmans
England
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Zemo Relieves Itchy Soreness of Cracked Toes
A doctor recommends Zemo as a medicated antiseptic that promptly relieves itchy soreness from cracked peeling toes and aids healing and clearing of the condition. ZEMO.
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Zemo
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Ieldls
Harry T. Hummel
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Doerflinger
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Wisconsin
Urban van Susteren
Appleton
Wis
Hayward
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Adv
Java
Marco Polo
Britannica
F. T. Macfeely
Omar
Pwesame
Phillips 66
Ben’s Super Service
Phillips
Lee Tires
Ray’s 66
16Th and
South Ave
AAA
Green Bay Sts
Sporting Goods
Bill
Schroeder Motor Co
Cashion, Wis
Oldsmobile
Chevrolet
Phillips 66 Products
Rose St
Johnson Chev. Co
Houston, Minn
National Oil CO
Phillips 66 Fine Products
West Aves
Jack’s Auto Repair
French Island
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