Year of the Insurance Explosion Faces 90th Congress
In 1967 the 90th Congress may launch wide scrutiny of auto, life, and health insurance abuses. Sen. Dodd reintroduces a Federal Motor Vehicle Insurance Guaranty Corporation bill to protect claimants when insurers fail. Co-sponsored by Hart Magnuson Clark, the plan mirrors FDIC funding with initial 50 million dollars and a later premium levy.
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Washington
Nea
China
Senate
Thomas Dodd
D-Conn
Federal Motor Vehicle Insurance Guaranty Corporation
Joseph Clark
D-Pa
Philip Hart
D-Mich
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Savings and Loan
Dodd
Hart
Antitrust and Monopoly
Federal Corporation
Treasury
Magnuson
Commerce Committee
Credit Life
Dean Sharp
Subcommittee
Side Celebrations in Swedish Yule
Sweden’s Christmas customs center on Lucia day December 13 with candle crowned Lucia queens and coffee and gingerbread. Other traditions include smorgasbord meals, Julklappar gift knocking, old Julbeck goat figures, long kept Christmas trees, postholiday tree removal parties, and Jultomte the farm Christmas gnome with porridge offerings.
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Stockholm
UPI
Sweden
Lucia
Syracuse
Yuletide
Ameri can Baptist receipts rise for nine months ending September
Valley Forge report shows Part I Basic Mission Program receipts totaling 8,077,578 for the nine months ended September 1966 up 139,325 from 1965. Undesignated receipts reach 6,539,389 up 208,812 while designated receipts fall 88,408 to 1,007,355. America for Christ totals 488,842 up 12,394 and World Fellowship 41,992 up 6,528.
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Valley Forge
UPI
American Baptist Convention
America For Christ
World Fellowship
Plumbing officials group renames to IAPMO in Honolulu
The Western Plumbing Officials Association voted at its fall meeting in Honolulu to change its name to the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials IAPMO.
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Honolulu
UPI
Western Plumbing Officials Association
International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials
IAPMO
Postal workers install box in pond during winter rains
In Snowden England postal workers set a public letter box in a clear spot but it sat in a flooded pond. The box remains submerged until a dry spell returns, leaving the site unusable for mail.
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Snowden
England
UPI
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Harriet Lenard
E Sunday Tribune
By Tom Nolan
FDIC
Hart’s
van Raalte
Cantrece
Hollywood Vassarette
Aris
Shorty
Herberger
Jultomte
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