Radio Free Europe Reports Satellite Broadcast Success
Radio Free Europe says its broadcasts riddling the Iron Curtain with shafts of truth reach six satellites and prompt violent Communist reactions. The effort, led by the National Committee for a Free Europe, raises funds and expands programming from Frankfurt and Munich to six nations.
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Radio Free Europe
New York
Paul Tigrid
National Committee For A Free Europe
Radio’Free Europe
Tigrid
Munich
United States
U. S. State Department
RFE
Iron Curtain
Dwight Eisenhower
Lucius D. Clay
Continental Can Company
Joseph Grew
Japan
National Committee
Henry Luce
Frankfurt
Germany
America
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Crusade For Freedom
Eisenhower
Clay
Henry Ford II
Europe
National Committee For A Free
Asia
Pacific
State keeps legal fight over rindless Swiss cheese patent
Wisconsin presses ahead with claims that Honer invented the rindless Swiss cheese process, challenging Kraft Foods patent rights after a patent office ruling. The dispute involves two patents on wrapping wax and on moulding and pressing vats with several Wisconsin factories backing the state's challenge.
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Madison
U. S. Patent Office
Wisconsin
Clarence Honer
Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture
James B. Stine
Kraft Foods Company
Kraft
Honer
University of Illinois
Stine
Joseph G. Werner
Gen. Thomson
Patent Office
Hotels Burn as Big Fire Wipes Out 16 Businesses
In Rockland Maine a major Friday night blaze destroyed two hotels and 16 other establishments totaling about a million dollars. Ten wooden buildings burned, four more were damaged, leaving a dozen families homeless. City Manager Fred D Farnsworth estimated the loss and noted reports of looting. Six firefighters were injured battling the wind driven flames, aided by crews from 13 communities including Bangor 50 miles away.
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Rockland
Seaport
Fred D. Farnsworth
Bangor
Here
Three Barns Burned In Green Lake Fire
Green Lake authorities report three barns burned at the Maplewood Hotel property with an estimated loss of 20 000 to 30 000 dollars. Proprietor W S Kutchin said he awoke around 2 am and alerted the Green Lake fire department which saved the hotel. The blaze destroyed corn grain hay and farm machinery and killed six sows and 40 pigs while 75 purebred Holstein cattle remained in a fourth barn unscathed.
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Green Lake
Maplewood
W. S. Kutchin
Kutchin
Notable Rise in US Space Heater Demand 1940 to 1950
Space heater usage in the United States doubled from 1940 to 1950, reflecting growing need to heat extra rooms and attics. Explore various heater types and styles available to meet this demand.
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United States
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