Submarine Cetacean Flotation Impresses Crowd In Los Angeles Harbor
Edmund Martine and Fred Zendar unveiled the Cetacean, a 42 foot self powered diving craft, as spectators watched it float for the first time in Los Angeles harbor. The craft weighs 53 tons, carries dual diesel electric motors, and features glass ports and 12 lights for underwater photography. Tests continue this week with planned sea trials within two weeks.
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Los Angeles
Edmund Martine
Martine
Fred Zendar
Los Angeles Harbor
Marine
Advisory Group Tackles Farmer Income Problem
The 18 member National Agricultural Advisory Commission met in Washington to propose ways to raise farmer income. It may discuss paying farmers to retire 35 million acres of cash crop land and a multiple price system for cotton, wheat, and rice. Dean William L Myers of Cornell chairs.
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Benson
Congress
Esenhoweer
William L. Myers
College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Screen Writer Dies in Hollywood at 58
Academy Award winning screen writer Robert Riskin dies at 58 in Hollywood. Funeral services are planned for Friday. Riskin won the 1934 Oscar for It Happened One Night and had notable credits in early sound-era cinema.
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Hollywood
Robert Riskin
Mink Jeans Latest Style For Cowboys
Davy Crockett lore meets luxury as New Mexico State Fair displays a $10,000 cowboy wardrobe. Simon Goldman presents mink blue jeans costing $3,500 lined in silk, a gold and jewel studded belt buckle at $1,000, six pair boots at $1,000 each, and a $100 Stetson. None are for sale. display aims to wow visitors.
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New Mexico
Goldman
Record 430 Million Pounds Of Meat Produced In Week
The American Meat Institute announced a weekly production peak of 430 million pounds of meat under federal inspection for the week ended Sept 17, a 21 percent rise from the prior week and 14 percent above the year ago level. August saw a record 4,475,000 hogs and 1,797,000 cattle marketed.
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Chicago
American Meat Institute
AMI
Supercarrier Forrestal Speed Test Aims for OK
The Navy conducts full speed tests on the 59,000 ton supercarrier Forrestal off the Virginia Capes after a prior fault. Preliminary runs reached 25 knots as Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. asserts the lubrication issue is fixed. If successful, delivery is set for Sept. 29 and commissioning on Oct. 1.
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Forrestal
Uncle Sam
Navy
Virginia Capes
Canadian Official Injured in Vladivostok Conference
Canadian Fisheries Minister James Sinclair was confined to bed at the Canadian embassy in Tokyo with a broken left leg and badly cut right leg from an incident in Vladivostok during an international fisheries conference. He arrived in Tokyo from Hong Kong en route home.
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Tokyo
James Sinclair
Russia
Sinclair
Hong Kong
Vladivostok
Bond Sales Soar In Comanche County Oklahoma
Comanche county reports eight month U S Savings Bond sales totaling 1 223 700 for Series E and H bonds, 68 percent of its 1 802 500 yearly goal, as state totals reach 47 124 940 or 68 5 percent of 68 800 000. Grover Ralston praises residents and Fort Sill for support in the drive.
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Comanche County
Oklahoma
U. S
Grover C. Ralston
Ralston
John White
Lawton
Exall English
Fort Sill
Slow Drivers a Menace in AAA Panel Debate
Washington panel of automobile safety experts at the 53rd AAA convention warned speed is a highway killer yet agreed that slow drivers are at least as dangerous. The discussion opened a roundtable during the convention.
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Washington
American Automobile Association
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Eisenhower
National Agricultural Advisory Commission
Lee
Mink
Julius Golden
Albuquerque
Davy Crockett
See Crook
Wichita Falls
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co
ALL America
Contractor's
Riverside Deluxe
E Street
Riverside
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