New Traffic Gadget Clocks Speed Of Cars Passing It On Busy Roadways
California highway safety engineer R B Luckenbach develops an electronic eye a suitcase device using the Doppler principle to measure car speeds from a roadside box. The system displays mph on a dial and can assess average speeds between signals while noting police presence slows drivers.
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R. Bo Luckenbeck
California
Division of Highways Safety
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Luckencach
Lauckenbach
Luchenbach
John Barker
Barker
Motorcar Exports Hit Record High In Britain
Britain exports cars at a new peak with monthly rates rising from 7,200 in 1946 to 11,900 in 1947 and 16,000 in January this year, reaching 67 percent of output, plus 5,000 commercial vehicles and buses exported.
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Britain
War Medals To Cost Canada 2.5 Million
Ottawa reports the government estimates a 2.5 million dollar cost for war campaign stars and medals in the coming fiscal year. The estimate includes the distribution expenses.
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Canada
Ottawa
Oddities In News This Is I 8 Inch Broomstick Mystery
Farmer Sheldon Anton of Cedar Rapids Iowa was startled when a broomstick 18 inches long protruded from a Holstein cow’s side after an abscess ruptured. The source notes no clear explanation of how the stick came to be inside the cow. Separately, it states Australia covers 2,974,581 square miles.
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Sheldon Anton
Cedar Rapids
Australia
Polymyxin Sees Dawn as New Germ Killer
Baltimore doctors describe successful clinical use of polymyxin, a powerful germ killer derived from bacillus polyxa. It cured undulant fever and whooping cough and showed promise against typhoid, meningitis, urinary infections, and others, with potential against bubonic plague. First patient, a nine year old, recovered in eight days after a skin infection. The drug is not yet generally available and resists bacterial resistance.
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Baltimore
John Hopkins Hospital
India
Layouts For an Average Home Garden Beds
A garden layout guide recommends combining vines shrubs and trees with perennials in clumps to form a background. Front beds should have smaller shrubs and annuals between larger perennials, edged with a wavy front and a lawn foreground. Emphasizes grouping over straight rows and easy maintenance with basic tools and optional garden tractor. Main vegetable groups divide into hardy semi hardy and tender with staggered plantings and frost tolerance notes.
Parcels Not Barred to Palestine Forces
Ottawa reports the suspension of parcel post to Palestine on February 28 will not affect gift parcels sent to British armed forces members in Palestine or Palestine police. Gift parcels up to 20 pounds will be accepted and sent to the United Kingdom for routing to Palestine via British military postal facilities.
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Ottawa
Palestine
Palestine Police Force
the Post, Office Department
United Kingdom
Candy forbidden for Moroccan children in 17th century
A historical note explains that Moroccan children in the 1600s were barred from eating candy as it was deemed a warrior’s sustenance, reflecting cultural beliefs about foods suitable for combatants.
South Africa to press ban on Communist party in assembly
Dr D F Malan, Nationalist opposition leader, to urge ban in the South African house of assembly. Britain speeds up repatriation of German POWs with all leaving by July end. A 1865 Vancouver Island stamp sold for 500 pounds in Bond Street. Dartmouth Naval College to admit 16-year-olds with ability next Sept. Senator Ian Mackenzie to receive honorary LLD at Edinburgh on July 2. Canada’s gross debt rose to 17.33 billion by January 31 from 3.54 billion in 1938. Winston Churchill’s memoirs first volume delivered, 250000 words. Princess Elizabeth and Philip to stay away from Clarence House for about a year while repairs continue.
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Communist Party
House of Assembly
D. F. Malan
Bowdoin Classmates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Hawthorne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine during their student years. Both later became prominent American writers and figures of 19th century literature.
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Henry Wadsworth Longillow
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Maine
Crossword Puzzle Clues Mixed Across Horizontal and Vertical
A dense list of crossword clues spans horizontal and vertical sections with varied word lengths and themes. Clues range from general terms like blemish and excavation to proper nouns such as Pacific island and Hebrew letter, plus scientific and currency hints.
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Pacific Island
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