Language worth more than ever in inflation tale
Centralia Illinois reports rising costs behind common phrases. Dirt fill costs rose from 72 cents to 1.55 a cubic yard since 1972, chicken feed doubles, a 100 pound sack now 9.50, a 1776 Continental valued at 40, paper costs 11 per hundredweight, gunpowder up 22 to 40 percent with a pound at 2.03, and a Centralia tinker earns 8 an hour while a 15 second curse following a hammer hit is 2.5 cents.
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Illinois
Interstate 64
Continental Congress
Ford halts grain shipment to Soviet Union for White House review
President Ford summoned Continental Grain Co and Cook Industries executives to the White House to discuss delaying 125 million bushels of grain to the USSR. Treasury secretary Simon said Ford seeks White House approval for future exports, with 91 million bushels of corn and 34 million of wheat involved.
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Washington
Ford
White House
Soviet Union
Treasury
William E. Simon
Continental Grain Co
New York
Cook Industries Inc
Memphis, Tenn
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
U.S
California
Interior plans offshore oil leasing schedule for 1975
The Interior Department aims to lease up to 10 million acres offshore in 1975, studying Atlantic, Gulf of Alaska, and Gulf of Mexico sites while environmental reviews proceed. Key lawmakers warn the plan is premature, and Supreme Court jurisdiction must be resolved before Atlantic leasing can occur.
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Washington
Interior Department
Atlantic Coast
Gulf of Alaska
Alaska
Gulf of Mexico
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Clifford P. Case
Rn.j
Atlantic Ocean
Whitaker
Interior
Atlantic
Supreme Court
U.S
Saudi Arabia
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani
John C. Sawhill
Yamani
Sawhill
Israel's Shazar Dies at 84 in Jerusalem
Zalman Shazar poet, scholar, and politician and former president of Israel died at age 84 in Jerusalem after a period of illness. He resigned in 1973 after ten years in the largely ceremonial post and helped draft Israel's 1948 declaration of independence.
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Jerusalem
Zalman Shazar
Israel
Shazar
Hadassah Hospital
Rachel
Shear Zalman Rubashov
Mir
Minsk
Communists Press For Voice In Italian Government
Rome AP reports the Italian Communist party seeks a seat in national government through elections not force. Leader Enrico Berlinguer, 51, guides a pragmatist, reformist path while appealing to workers and mid‑road voters amid economic strains and past Kremlin tensions.
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Rome
Italian Communist Party
Giorgio Amendola
Communist Party of
Italy
Bologna
Enrico Berlinguer
Giorgetti
Communist Party
Berlinguer
Moscow
Peking
Kremlin
Czechoslovakia
Poet Anne Sexton Found Dead In Weston Garage
Pulitzer winner Anne Sexton aged 45 was found dead in her car in the Weston Massachusetts garage. Police said she may have taken her own life following a recent divorce from Alfred Sexton. Sexton won the 1967 Pulitzer for Live or Die. Her death ends a career notable for themes of death.
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Weston, Mass
Anne Sexton
Lawrence Cugini
Boy Survives 15 Story Elevator Fall in Virginia
In Alexandria Virginia a 7-year-old boy fell 150 feet down an elevator shaft while playing with his brother and a newspaper delivery boy. He landed on his feet and remained under hospital observation as doctors check for injuries beyond a broken leg and bruises. The father expressed relief, calling it a one in a million chance.
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Alexandria
John C. Olmstead
Jeffery
John
J. Alan Olmstead
Nixon travel ban keeps ex-president from Watergate witness stand
Nixon leaves hospital but remains under travel restrictions for 1 to 3 months as he battles phlebitis. Dr. Lungren says the 61 year old will need rest and anticoagulant therapy, delaying any appearance in the Washington trial of Nixon aides.
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San Clemente
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Long Beach
John CC. Lungren
Washington, D.C
Lungren
Weather outlook for Middletown area this weekend
Partly cloudy tonight with a chance of showers on Sunday. Lows near the mid 50s tonight and highs in the upper 70s to low 80s tomorrow.
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Middletown
Kent State student shot on dormitory third floor
Kent State University police said a 19 year old student Ray Gilmore of McKeesport PA was wounded with a stomach wound in a dormitory fight on the third floor of McDonald Hall. Two shots were fired and the assailants were not believed to be students. Gilmore was listed in guarded condition at Robinson Memorial Hospital Ravenna.
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Kent, Ohio
Kent State University
Ray Gilmore
McKeesport, Pa
Robinson Memorial Hospital
Ravenna
Gilmore
McDonald Hall
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