Canadian manufacturing and trade rise in 1955 summary
Canadian statistics report shows manufacturing output up sharply in 1955 with motor vehicle production peaking at 375,127 units, and steel ingots and pig iron reaching new highs. Trade and merchandising improve as department store sales rise and border travel increases. Housing starts and completions grow, railway car loadings rise about 10 percent, and wages edge up.
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Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Caboose carvings mark tombstones in Mississippi grave
In Friendship cemetery at Columbus Mississippi a veteran Gulf Mobile and Ohio conductor Kellie Richmond Riley and his son John K. Riley are buried beneath caboose carvings on their tombstones. The carvings about 15 by 6 inches reproduce their assigned cabooses. Kellie died March 23 1948 at 69 and John died a year later at 34. Their graves lie near the G M and O rails.
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Friendship
Columbus
Miss
Kellie Richmond Riley
Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad
John K. Riley
Riley
G. M
O. Rails
Twelve nations plan assault on Antarctica spearheaded by Australia
The article reports a 12 nation Antarctic expedition led by Australia initiating a wide scale air link from New Zealand and Australia to McMurdo Sound. US planes will carry scientists and gear to Little America to establish weather stations and an observatory at the South Pole within two years. East Sale near Melbourne and Christchurch may host bases with 300 American personnel and fuel for polar reconnaissance.
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Sydrey
Australia
Antarctica
United States Navy
New Zealand
McMurdo Sound
Ross Sea
Little America
South Pole
East Sale
Melbourne
Christchurch
E. L. Osborne
Antarctica Quest and British US Antarctic Plans in 1956
A survey of Antarctic exploration notes Mawson and MacRobertson Land discoveries and the 1956 57 British Trans Antarctic expedition. It outlines Australian weather stations and plans to reach the south magnetic pole with dog teams and tracked vehicles and mentions Hillary and Byrd leading US and NZ efforts.
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Antarctica
Sydney
Mawson
MacRobertson Land
Argentine
Belgium
Chile
France
Germany
Norway
Japan
South Africa
United States
Soviet Union
New Zealand
Britain
Australia
Australian Antarctic Territory
South Pole
United States Navy
Richard E. Byrd
Weddell Sea
Ross Sea
Edmund Hillary
Everest
Antarctic
Himalayas
University of Sydney
South Magnetic Pole
Douglas Mawson
Magnetic Pole
Stable emotions aid to dieters
Two Cornell University psychiatrists found that emotionally stable dieters are four times more likely to succeed on a supervised diet. They noted that most excess weight comes from over eating and stress triggers. Successful dieters were alert, had many friends, and contented home lives while planning to lose weight to look better.
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Cornell University
C. Douglas Darling
John Summerkill
Cornell
Arrowhead Found Hidden in Car Tire
C. H. Kelly of Arizona spent a day searching for Indian arrowheads but found none. Frustrated, he returned to his car and discovered an arrowhead embedded in a flat tire, a discovery that worsened his mood.
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C. H. Kelly
Arizona
Estevan Area To See Multi Million Power Plant
Multi million dollar steam electric generating plant planned near Estevan Saskatchewan. The $40 million facility will use four 66 000 KW units for a total output of at least 26 000 kilowatts. Construction slated to begin soon with completion targeted around 1965 pending International Joint Commission water approval.
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David Cass
Eetonceans Power Corporation
Estevan
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Souris River
Ewbank and Partners (Canada) Ltd
The
Power Corporation
International Joint Commission
First dustless grinding system marketed in U K
A newly formed U K company markets a dust extract ing fitting for portable power grinders claiming to suppress dust in industry. The system uses a patented cowl hood over the wheel a small plastic pipe and vacuum collector unit to filter dust with high velocity air at the source.
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U.K
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Canadian Statistics Report
MacRobertsoniand
Bennett Cerf
Sir Winston Churchill
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