Predictions Of Things To Come In 1956
United Press survey gathers leaders in medicine business sports fashion television movies and more to forecast 1956. Predictions include advances in cold prevention mental health cancer research jet air travel color TV rising film quality a U.S. Olympic victory expected and continued cold war pressures with no clear presidential winner.
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New York
United Press
U.P. Washington
Elmer Hess
American Medical Association
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eastern Airlines
Kenneth L. Wilson
United States
Australia
Charles James
Robert Sarnoff
NBC
Germany
Red China
United Nations
Lonardi Promoted to Highest Argentine Army Rank
The Army Ministry promoted the ailing rebel Eduardo Lonardi in the United States to lieutenant general, the army’s top rank. The action dates to Sept 23, the day he became provisional President after leading the revolution that toppled Juan Peron.
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Buenos Aires
Army Ministry
Eduardo Lonardi
Lonardi
United States
Juan D. Peron
Peanut crop rebounds with 1955 yield record
The 1955 U.S. peanut crop rose 71 percent above the short 1954 harvest, yielding a record average of 1,057 pounds per acre.
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U.S
Supersonic Dan Boones in Air Force rocket contest
Colorado Springs reports the Air Force will pick its supersonic Dan'lne during the first week of October at the Continental Air Defense Command aerial rocketry contest in Yuma Arizona. The event gathers the world’s eight top fighter teams to compete in the premier Air Force rocketry contest.
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Air Force
Continental Air Defense Command
Yuma
Arizona
Stock Mart boomed with radar powered aerials and rockets
A 1955 stock market surge defined by record trading, high profits, and multiple market swings is recapped. The era's optimism rides on confidence in American business as prices reach new highs, with events from January margins to Eisenhower’s health shock shaping the year. Also notes a Kansas City ad offering $1000 final expense life insurance by mail through Old American.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
Sen. Fulbright
D-Ark
Germany
France
Eisenhower
Kansas City
OLD American of
Old American Ins. Co
W. 9Th
Dept
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Dore Schary
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Washington
USAF
Dan Boones
Colorado Springs, Colo
Nea
Daniel Boone
Boone
Dan’t
Dan’l
Stock Mart
Federal Reserve
OLD Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance
D Avenue
Aero
AGA
Ajg
Glass
New England
Mattress Sale
Dream
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