Canada Third Quarter GNP Rises Near Two Percent
National Accounts show Canada’s gross national product up to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $30 billion in Q3, about half due to higher prices and half to higher real output. Profits rise slower than early year, with taxes around 43 percent of profits. October electric output hits new peak. Employment declines ease in November. retail and wholesale sales rise strongly. railway tonnage and canal freight rise. net foreign securitie s sales in October lead to capital inflow of 35 million dollars.
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Canadas
Government ends money laundering program after safety findings
The U S government abandoned its money laundering process for currency after researchers found it shortened banknote life and dulled engraving. Officials cited durability concerns and the need to preserve currency quality.
Side notes mix fashion tax and travel trivia
A collage of opinions and curiosities covers fashion color myths from Korea, tax history, dog custody in divorce, body aesthetics, public health mask ideas, drink spacing, and era trivia. It cites Dior on knees, Pitt income tax, Florence taxes, Midway Airport traffic, American Airlines figures, and French thoroughbred emphasis on mares.
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Health Department
William Pitt
Republic of
Florence
Chicago Midway Airport
American Airlines
Plum Island lab advances to study dangerous animal diseases
On Plum Island in Long Island Sound the U S department of agriculture opens a large new animal disease lab. Researchers plan to study virulent diseases such as foot and mouth threat, brucellosis, rinderpest, contagious pneumonia and rabies while guarding a strict quarantine on the Devil’s Island facility.
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Plum Island
Long Island Sound
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S
North America
U.S. National Society For Medical Research
Devil's Island
Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
H. L. Bachrach
J. J. Calls
W. R. Hess
United States
Europe
First Film of Polio Virus Destroying Nerve Cells
Dr Mary Jane Hogue records the polio virus attacking nerve cells in a University of Pennsylvania project funded by March of Dimes. The footage shows virus destroying dendrites and axons that transmit impulses to muscles, leading to paralysis.
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Mary Jane Hogue
University of Pennsylvania
Snell Named to Credit Union Post in Saskatchewan
Clarence Alvin Snell, 46, longtime Saskatchewan civil servant, has been appointed Supervisor of Credit Unions in the provincial Department of Co-operation. He succeeds A C MacLean, who retired October 24. Snell's appointment took effect November 19, 1956.
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Clarence Alvin Snell
Saskatchewan Civil Service
Department of Co-operation
Public Service Commission
Snell
A. C. MacLean
Mr. Snell
Regina
Department of Public Health
Scott Collegiate
Department of Agriculture
Hedley Auld
Royal Grain Commission
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Live Stock Association Meet Held at Saskatoon
The 1957 convention of the Saskatchewan Live Stock Association took place January 22 to 25 at the Bessborough Hotel Saskatoon. The program included lectures, panels, and breed and club meetings with a special ladies program featuring culinary arts, decorative arts talks, and a fashion show.
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Saskatchewan Live Stock Association
Bessborough
Saskatoon
Second Floor Washer Dream Becomes Real Home Oddity
A couple recalls buying a house with a second floor bathroom and deciding to place a washer and dryer on the second floor. After tests and many objections from movers plumbers and friends they finally hauled the bulky machines through a window into a child's bedroom and now enjoy the upstairs laundry setup with pride.
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Wineter
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf and others
A humorous rundown of anecdotes recounted by Ernest Cuneo and others featuring a righteous New York alderman battling relief funds for ladies of the evening. Mayor La Guardia orders the room cleared as a loud rebuke echoes through the city desk.
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Bennett Cerf
Ernest Cuneo
Fiorello
New York
la Guardia
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Canadian Statistics Report
Korea
Colning Confucius
Confucius
Christian Dior
Chicago
Mr. Boing
Laurel
Tieses
Ng Gee
Devils’ Island
John F. Sembower
CPC
Pete
Credit Union Post
Cyrus McCormick
Mr. McCormick
McCormick
Jack Carson
Idlewild
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