Yearend whimsy lists oddball bests and wishes
New York writer HAL BOYLE salutes the passing year with an all time list of humorous nominations. Highlights include the best joke on a cat, the most outstanding figure of the year, and the missing link among others. Oscar Sterl, 68, clothing merchant and civic leader of Abilene, Kansas, dies after weeks of illness. he had led the Central Kansas Free Fair since 1924.
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New York
Smithsonian Physical
Primo Carera
Shirley Temple
Jimmy Doolittle
Hueat
Gen
Omar Bradley
Mae Weat
Jimmy Durante
B Nowse
Emily Dickinson
Secord
Emily Bronte
Elsa Maxwell
Kate Smith
Sphinx
Simon Legree
Lady MacBeth
Eco Fidzelio la Guardia
Kilgor
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
George Bernard Shaw
Adolf Hitler
Mother Goose
Elsie Dinsmore
Lydia Pinkham
Oscar Sterl
Abilene
Kan
Central Kansas Free Fair Association
Five Barometers on Kansas Business
The Bureau of Business Research at the University of Kansas presents monthly changes since 1940 for five Kansas business indicators. July 1946 data show a peak far above the base year, with sales taxes rising since the war's end and employment gradually recovering after a postwar drop. Additional curves for freight carloadings and electric power will be added when available.
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Kansas
University of Kan
Europe
Bureau of Business Research
GOP election sweep tops AP editors year 1946
The GOP won 54 House seats to reach 245-188 and held 51 of 96 Senate seats, signaling a shift from Democratic and New Deal tides. Other top stories included strikes, OPA decontrols, Nuernberg trials, atomic tests, the Degnan case, cold war tensions, a looming railroad strike, deadly hotel fires, and the St. Louis Cardinals pennant and World Series upset.
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Lewis
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Degnan
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America
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Atlanta
LaSalle
St. Louis Cardinals
Brooklyn Dodgers
Boston Re Sox
Henry Wallace
Harold L. Ickes
Man
Explorations of space via radar rockets headline Garsson case
Space radar rocket explorations feature alongside the Garsson case amid a broader housing crisis. The article links technological progress to social issues, outlining tensions between innovation and urban affordability.
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Reed Urged as Chairman of Senate Commerce Committee
Midwest shippers press for Senator Clyde Reed to lead the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee over Senator White. Senator Wilson says Reed suits Midwest grain dealers and producers, while leadership duties should stay limited to one role. Solomon Valley Tribune sold to S. C. Carer of Salina. announcement by Doores and Brown.
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R-Ban
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Solomon
Kan
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Salina
R. W. Doores
George Brown
O.r
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