Ray Tucker Answers Questions on Iran Egypt and Kefauver
Washington columnist Ray Tucker answers reader queries on Iran and U S Middle East policy, and reviews past presidential selections. He notes how Acheson shifted toward recognizing realities in Iran and Egypt, warns of potential Soviet influence, and discusses the role of the Vice President and the nature of primary losses.
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Editorial Insight on Korea Talks and Communist Strategy
The piece analyzes high level talks between Soviet and Chinese leaders in Moscow about Korea, noting China supplies manpower and Russia munitions. It observes prolonged fighting with no decisive victory and that Panmunjom truce talks may become permanent. It notes a tent replaced by a wooden building and questions whether that signals resolve or bluff.
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Talk Is Not Cheap in the Eighty Second Congress
A Washington dispatch reports the eighty second Congress spent about 3 059 915 dollars before adjournment last month. The session produced 35 999 pages in the Congressional Record and 1 648 Senate hours plus 1 162 House hours over 274 days. The piece notes the cost of talk and the records kept, highlighting the price of debate.
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Emotions vs Minds in Choosing Leaders
Cedar Rapids Gazette argues voters elect by emotion more than reason. The piece urges applying the same care used for selecting doctors and other professionals to political leadership to improve outcomes.
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Platforms Clash Over Inflation Plans In 1953
Washington via NEA outlines Republican and Democratic stances on inflation control. GOP emphasizes limiting controls and tax reform while opposing broad rent controls. Democrats push pay as you go taxation, continued controls, and targeted relief. Both aim to craft stabilization laws once new Congress convenes.
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Weights and Measures Puzzle List of Clues
A mixed list of measurement terms and clues covering weights lengths volumes and misc entries. Entries include pounds feet quarts and various themed hints such as Persia Great Lake and hunting birds Sea eagles and a harvest goddess.
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Jumbled Clues from a Historic Puzzle Page
A compact extract listing mixed crossword style clues and numeric tags such as 43 Foot prefix 44 Send out 46 Insect 47 Waste allowance 48 English statesman, plus references to Scottish river place and various definitions.
Subscriptions Rates and Mail Delivery Hours
Daily one year by mail inside first and second zones nine dollars. Daily one year outside first and second zones fifteen dollars. All mail subscriptions in advance. Office hours eight am to six pm. Special delivery for papers which are missed.
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Association Des Moines news and business office at 318 Shops Building
The Des Moines association maintains its news and business office located at the 318 Shops Building. This item notes the address and function within the local business district.
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Exhibition Telescope Draws Five Cent Squints
Our Yesterdays notes a failed water works day and missed excursion exhibition. A man with a large telescope offered a view of the universe on the street corner for five cents per squint.
Iowa River Flood Delays Train Service on Muscatine Line
Heavy rains and floods swell the Iowa river and its tributaries causing travel uncertainty on the Muscatine North and South line. A morning train ran with no passengers though freight and express were moved. Cave-ins and washouts disrupt the line, but the railroad faces conditions similar to other lines.
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Overland Model 69T Sets New Record Price and Specs
Forty years ago features of the Overland 69T included self starter 30 horsepower five passenger touring car 110 inch wheel base Timken bearings 50 Remy magneto 50 Warner speedometer 50 mohair top and boot 25 clear vision windshield 25 Prestolite tank. The car priced at 985 dollars reportedly smashes all previous records as forty thousand Overlands are planned for 1913.
Idaho Dominates U S Antimony Production
Idaho produced 95 percent of the antimony in the United States. The note mentions a historic method of marking days by tying knots in cloth, reflecting old timekeeping practices.
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