Barber Poll Man Seeks U S Pulse From Barbers
Harry Rich, a Washington barber, runs The Barber Poll to gauge public mood in elections. Since 1928 he has predicted major races, collecting ballots from customers and mail, planning to visit eight New England states to boost participation.
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Ashington
Harry
Harry Rich
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Alf Landon
Roosevelt
Landon
Maine
Vermont
Barber Rich
Wendell Willkie
Tom Dewey
Washington
Truman
Dewey
Wallace
Iris
New England
Hall Her Home Crowded Hallway Tenants Move Fails
Landlady Mrs. Anna Brandon of Ingram, 65, crowded into the hallway after renting the first floor in anticipation of second-floor tenants moving. When they stayed put, she placed a bed in the attic and uses a one burner hotplate to cook and store belongings on a storage cabinet.
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Ittsburgh
Anna Brandon
Ingram
Navy Jets to Vie in Bendix Trophy Race
Cleveland August 18 Navy will enter six FJ-1 Furies in the jet division of the Bendix Trophy Race 1949. Air Force plans 75 F-84 Thunderjets with six in a flight demonstration for the Allison Trophy. The Bendix runs Sept 4 to 6 from Long Beach to Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Navy
Air Force
Leon Gray
Uing
Long Beach
Calif
Sugar disease slows Philippines sugar recovery
Fungus disease slows the Philippine sugar industry and prompts a downward revision of the 1948-49 crop year production forecast by about 20 percent to 660000 short tons.
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Manila
Philippines
USC Students Find Old Indian Relics
BERKELEY Aug 18 Two large collections of primitive weapons and tools belonging to California's early inhabitants were recovered by field expeditions this summer. Dr Robert F Heizer UC anthropologist reported. From an early village at Patricks Point State Park Humboldt County students excavated harpoons fishhooks wedges mortars and pestles made of stone bone shell and antlers. The people using these tools were apparently deaf. Six skeletons from the site had ear bony growths causing deafness. A second Berkeley and Los Angeles student expedition found 10000 pounds of stone tools in Topanga Canyon near Santa Monica.
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Berkeley
California
Robert F. Heizer
University of California
Patrick’s Point State Park
Humboldt County
Heizer
Los Angeles
Topanga Canyon
Sarita Monica
Business Failures Decline in Week to Aug. 12
New York August 18 business failures dropped to 103 for the week ended August 12 from 116 the prior week, according to Dun and Bradstreet. The figure exceeded the 1947 week total more than fivefold and was higher than the 1946 total.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
U S Mint to Buy Vet Mortgages
The Federal National Mortgage Association, a Reconstruction Finance Corp subsidiary, will buy GI housing mortgages insured by the Veterans Administration. It will acquire mortgages from banks and lenders under a new housing law to relieve lenders from heavy farm and housing debt, with purchases limited to VA guaranteed loans since April 30 and FHA insured loans.
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Washington
Federal National Mortgage Association
Veterans Administration
FNMA
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Federal Housing Administration
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