Debt count fascinates as Senate nears 400 billion
Senator Ellender explains the national debt with vivid comparisons. If every U.S. Senator counted two dollars per second nonstop, it would take about 64 years. Printing 400 billion dollars would require 171 years. One-dollar bills would fill 3456 rail cars and stretch 36 miles. End to end they would reach 27,095 miles and encircle the globe 1,552 times. Ellender notes the figure is really about 398 billion.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
United States Senate
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
New York
Los Angeles
Ellender
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NATO
Congress
Congress' foreign policy role under fire by Roscoe Drummond
Washington columnist Roscoe Drummond argues Congress bungles foreign policy by pursuing unilateral NATO force cuts like the Mansfield amendment. He warns such moves risk undermining NATO, plans with Moscow, and West Berlin Solutions, urging balance between Congress and the President.
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Warsaw Pact
Europe
Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
West Berlin
West Germany
Rusia
Poland
Congres
Russia
Heath bids for Common Market
Prime Minister Edward Heath appeared before the House of Commons to present Britain's bid to join the Common Market and face questions. Negotiations with Pompidou and Brussels were in focus as MPs and public opinion polarize. opposition Labour leans against joining, while Conservatives remain divided.
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Edward Heath
House of Commons Pompidou
Britain
Heath
Geoffrey Rippon
Brussels
House of Commons
Pompidon
Labor Party
Dear Dr Thosteson VD and health testing guidance
A reader asks about venereal disease testing after exposure. Dr Thosteson outlines signs for gonorrhea and syphilis, recommends testing at 30 and 60 days, and stresses early testing to prevent spread. He notes outbreaks involve amateurs and teens, and urges vigilance and early tests.
Mailbag column riffs on money and quirks from a bygone era
New York AP column notes Americans cash 22 billion checks yearly and jokes about rubber checks. It highlights swans hiss to defend young, Windsor Castle window politics, and black widow spiders eating husbands. Quotes Getty Oscar Wilde and a Wall Street era mogul Hefry Green with $95 million fortune.
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Windsor Castle
John Paul Getty
King Midas
Hefry Green
Wall Street
Oscar Wilde
Horses sold to Chicago by Dr McKennan
Dr McKennan has sold his bay horses to J W Dean of Chicago. The team was shipped to Chicago on the 1 o'clock train this afternoon. Prices not disclosed. 15 years ago W G Munroe spent Sunday with family. Mrs L G Burnett home from Southern tour. John Havercamp and mother visited Davenport relatives. 25 years ago Calvary Baptist choir gave sacred concert at church. Gla Buster, WAVES, advanced to yeoman first class. Bert J Lillibridge, 79, dies at home.
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L.G. Burnett
John Havercamp
Davenport
Calvary Baptist Church
Gla Buster
Glen Buster
Yeoman
This Day in History May 24 1971 Highlights
Events listed include Peter Minuit buying Manhattan in 1626 for 24 dollars in goods, Queen Victoria’s 1819 birth, the first US passenger railroad in 1830, Morse’s telegraph in 1844, Brooklyn Bridge opening in 1884, Bismarck sinking Hood in World War II, Scott Carpenter orbiting in 1962, and later political and regional incidents up to a 196x note and Israel Lebanon tensions.
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Peter Minuit
Island of
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Britain
United States
Baltimore
Elliott’s
Samuel F. B. Morse
Washington
Brooklyn Bridge
New York
Bismarck
Hood
Scott Carpenter
U.S. Senate
Prayer for Guidance and Peace in Christ
The daily prayer speaks of peace given by Christ not as the world gives. It expresses trust in divine guiding presence to lead toward peace and light, closing in the Master's name.
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Moffatt
Christ
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