Vending machine turns 75 reshaping daily life
Fifty-year anniversary notes the rise of vending machines from a penny gumball on an elevated New York platform in 1886 to a $3 billion industry. Today 3,600 vending companies and 150 manufacturers employ many small firms. machines span food, toiletries, newspapers, and even banking services, with industry forecasts predicting growth to about $6 billion yearly in four years.
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Ward Cannel Newspaper Enterprise Assn
New York
NEA
U.S
Frederick Schuster
Europe
Proposal to Cut Federal Aid to Segregated Colleges
A Civil Rights Commission report urges Congress or the executive branch to withhold funds from private institutions practicing discrimination. It states the federal government has indirectly supported separate Negro colleges and calls for action in line with Supreme Court rulings against racial segregation in higher education. The 1950 document, sent to Eisenhower Kennedy and Congress, focuses largely on Southern states.
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W. Joynes Macfarlan
Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Racial Segregation in Public Colleges and Wire Theft Report
The report cites Mississippi Georgia South Carolina and other states as hard core segregation areas with no Negro enrollment in public higher education. Since then two Negroes have been enrolled at the University of Georgia under a federal court order but suspended amid campus disorders and ordered readmitted Monday. Florida and Louisiana appear to allow Negro entry only by court order in one Florida and four Louisiana institutions. In a separate item police investigate the second telegraph wire theft in a week from Baltimore & Ohio Railroad rights of way near Harpers Ferry West Virginia 3 000 feet stolen near grade crossing on WV 151 west of here.
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Bama
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
University of Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
Lowsiana
Charles Town
W.va
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
West Virginia
Here
B&o
Harpers Ferry
Mystery Soviet Rocket Firing Report Sparks Alaska Radar Probe
Washington reports no new clues on whether the Soviet Union fired a rocket toward the Pacific Friday. US radar on Shemya Island Alaska tracked a six minute object move southeast, but officials offered no confirmation or denial and warned no further details have emerged.
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Washington
Pacific
Soviet Union
U. S
Air Force
Shemsa Island
Alaska
Pentagon
Shemsa Station
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