Secret Crop Reports Released At Precise Release Time
In Washington the Crop Reporting Board holds a tightly guarded routine. At 2:30 p.m. officials seal the locked wing as reporters wait for release at 3 p.m. The process ensures timely, market sensitive data on crops, prices, and acreages reaches the nation without leaks. Sterling Newell leads the final steps, delivering mimeographed copies to press at exact go time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Brenner
Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
J Agriculture Department
Congress
Department
Alaska
Agriculture
Arthur H. Hyde
Sterling R. Newell
Newell
Renortere
Advertising Offer for Old American Life Insurance
Older readers are invited to apply for a $1000 life insurance policy up to age 80 to cover final expenses. The ad from Old American Insurance Co of Kansas City promotes mail-only transactions with no obligation and no phone calls, asking readers to mail name, address, and year of birth to a Kansas City address.
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Kansas City
Old American Insurance Co
Oak. Dept
Missouri
Kidnapped Millionaire Staggers Into Malaya Town
Singaporean Tan Boon Khah, a Jeweler? No, a Singapore millionaire, was kidnaped last week by a gang demanding a million Malayan dollars for his return. He staggered into Johore Bahru, Malaya, saying he was dumped in the jungle after a week of blindfolds and restraints. Relatives deny any ransom payment. officials speculate a substantial sum may have changed hands.
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Johore Bahru
Malaya
Singapore
Tan Boon Khah
U. S
Aviation forecasts past and future through 1975 and beyond
The piece reviews 1935 Vanity Fair forecasts by Paul Gallico, Igor Sikorsky’s realism on speed and comfort, and current views on supersonic jets and rockets. It notes Pan Am’s three‑day China flights, jet speeds around 575 mph, and debates whether rockets could carry 25 passengers LA to London in 40 minutes by 1975 with a long horizon for 100 years of progress.
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Doc Quigg
New York
UPI
Tokyo
Los Angeles
London
Vanity Fair
Paul Gallico
Europe
Pan American Airways
China
Sikorsky
Michael FE. Gluhareff
Sikorsky Aircraft
United Aircraft
Igor Sikorsky
Bodies recovered after Chinese air force crash near Kunsan
The Nationalist Chinese Embassy announced 16 bodies recovered from the wreckage of a Chinese air force C46 that crashed near Kunsan on Friday during a flight out of Formosa.
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Seoul
South Korea
Kunsan
Formosa
U S. Outpaces Free Nations in Containing Inflation
Labor official Robert J. Myers says U S consumer prices rose 9 percent from 1953 to 1959 vs 28 percent in France 12 in Italy 11 in Germany and 9 in Japan. Secretary James P. Mitchell notes 12 percent rise in real wages since 1953 with a 21 percent gain in total personal income. He cites price growth despite a high living-cost index of 125.6 in February and projects 1.5 to 2 percent inflation in 1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Myers
Labor Statistics
France
United Kingdom
Italy
Germany
Japan
Myers
James P. Mitchell
U.S
Mitchell
Congress
Soviet Union
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Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
Secretary of Agriculture
Crop Board
Vee Pene Reese
Porter
West Texas Plating Corporation
Lubbock, Texas
Sheraton
Southland Center
Randall Davis
Fieures
Gulf Coast
Plateau
Central Pacific
Great Lakes
Rockies
Free Nations
William J. Eaton Washington
United States
Stinson Cleaners
Lubbock's le
J. L. Hardin
Broadway
Burpees
Zinnia Seeds
Mobil Dealers
MOBIL
Burpee
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