Washington Notes on Health, Aid, Credit and Housing in 1955
The Surgeon General cites progress against paralytic polio and other diseases with Salk vaccines cutting polio cases by over 60 percent this year. Foreign aid totals, with Western Europe receiving about 33.4 billion, Asian and Pacific regions 9.5 billion in grants and loans. The Fed tightens credit by raising six banks' discount rate to 2.5 percent. FTC economists warn of record merger activity in 1955, likely surpassing 1954. October housing starts fall five percent, total 107000, with ten month housing under construction reaching 1.161 million.
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United States
Commerce Department
Asia and
the Pacific
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Reserve
Eisenhower seeks 20 percent cut and emergency reserve
The Eisenhower administration will withhold up to twenty percent of Congress sanctioned economic and technical aid abroad, potentially about 100 million dollars, creating an emergency reserve fund. The Pentagon plans to publish a list of all Air Force flights by members of Congress since January 1, 1953, upon request by the Senate Preparedness Investigating subcommittee. The Army offers faster promotions to medical officers to attract physicians, allowing promotion to major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel one year sooner than other officers amid a doctor shortage.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Pentagon
Senate
United States
Army
Farm Calendar Shows December Events Across Lancaster County
A dense list of farm related events runs through December from Dec 5 to Dec 29. It includes short courses at Pennsylvania University and Penn State, a 10th annual Seed Conference, Christmas parties hosted by Farm Women Societies, a Gian Carlo Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors at Lancaster Opera Workshop, 4-H activities and sale fundraisers, and Cantatas at Chestnut Level Presbyterian and Quarryville Memorial Methodist Choirs. It notes a tragic drowning rescue in Fort Lauderdale where a mother saved her children after a car overturned in a canal. The calendar also cites meetings for poultry associations and stockholders, Ch r istmas dinners, and a county vegetable growers meeting.
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Pennsylvania
Farm Women’s Society
Penny Fire Hall
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Lancaster Opera Workshop
Reynolds Junior High School
Lititz Fairehouse
Farm Women’s Organizations of Community
Chestnut Level
P. W. Bowers
Bareville
Pennsylvania Farm Show
Lanchester Chorus
Christiana Fire Hall
Chestnut Level Presbyterian
Quarryville Memorial
Fort Lauderdale
Filia
Hazel_ Wolin
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US Public Health Service
Federal Trade Commission
Labor Department
Emergency Reserve Fund
AIR Travel
National Safety
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Chicago Factory i Chain
Snavely’s Farm Service
New Holland
Colerain Grange
IOOF
Kirkwood
Chester-Delaware County Poultry Assn
Coatesville
YMCA
Lancaster Production Credit Assn
National Farm LoanaAssn
Old Mount Joy
Lancaster County Farm Equipment Dealers
Hostetter’s
Mount Joy
Martieville
Fulton Grange
Farm Society
Duncheon
Martin Greider
Mullersville
Margaret Hopkins
Latuiz
County Meeting
Lancaster County Vegetable Growers
Wolgemuth Bros., Inc
LeEv
Florin, Pennsylvania
Wenger & Sensenig Co
Paradise, Pa
Glenn E. Gehman
David B. Johns
Lancaster
Strasburg
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