Beckley sees steady growth as May construction tops a million
City Recorder-Treasurer Eve Breck reports May construction starts exceed one million dollars for the fourth straight month. Western Pancake House Arthur Treacher Fish and Chips and MOAB Custom Builders opened along with nine new residences, while eight businesses and 70 homes are being remodeled. Population growth continues in both urban and suburban Beckley, but highway development is still lacking and needed to sustain progress.
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Beckley
City Recorder
Eve Breck
Western Pancake House
Arthur Treacher Fish and Chips
Moab Custom Builders
No Place For Amin Under mounting international pressure
Uganda's Henry Kyemba described brutal killings including Archbishop Luwuum and ministers. Dora Bloch was described as murdered during the Entebbe hostage crisis. The piece argues for continued global action and branding Amin as a mass murderer while urging asylum for victims and defectors.
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Idi Amin
Uganda
Henry Kyemba
London
Kyemba
Jonan Luwuum
Amin
Dora Bloch
el - al
Entebbe
United States
Canada
United Nations
Ireland
Belgium
Young
International Commission of Jurists
N.Y. Times
Old by products fuel eyed as cheap car fuel
The article recalls 1990s Birmingham, Alabama where a 12 cylinder engine ran on benzol fuel sold by Sloss Sheffield Steel Co and later by a local chain. It burned hotter and cheaper than gasoline but was dropped as engines could not handle the heat. Alabama By-Products president Brad Koenig notes the practice ended years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry DeWitt
Birmingham
Sloss - Sheffield Steel Co
DeWitt
US Steel Corp
Ashington
Jegjer
Alabama
Alan
Brad Koenig
Alabama By - Products
Weeo Pep
Koenig
Vaal River
United States
North America
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Here's The Way It Is Mr Burns
Edward S. Gilbreth and Robert G. Schultz critique President Burns and the federal Reserve Board for a productivity slump citing absenteeism, shifting values, and modern factory division of labor. They urge investigation by visiting factories and note the challenges of motivation amid high education and long hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Burns
Edward S. Gilbreth
Robert G. Schultz
Chicago Daily News
Arthur Burns
Federal ‘Reserve ‘Board
Washington,d.c
University of South Carolina
America
Burns
Decvice Teteatryer
Escrali
Longest Raleigh County Army Term Honored
Cather Wills of East Beckley is noted for serving the longest army term in Raleigh County up to 1920. He wore the 0. C. for about four years from the Mexican trouble to 1920, enlisted with the 16th Infantry, went to Mexico with Pershing, then France with the first troops for 27 months in Europe.
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Cather Wills
East Beckley
Wills
16Th Infantry
Mexico
Germany
France
Europe
Water politics and drought in California and beyond
The piece argues that drought exposes flaws in water policy and pricing. It critiques overreliance on dams and irrigation, advocates market-based water pricing, and warns against politics driving costly projects. It highlights California’s irrigation, food production, and political responses to water scarcity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
United States
Union
Mideast
China
Department of Water
Congress
Interior Department
Marshall Plan and Europe’s Postwar Prosperity Thirty Years On
The author reflects on 1947 Paris and Rotterdam experiences, noting Europe’s postwar revival driven by the Marshall Plan and Western European unity. He cites unemployment, inflation, and living standards, contrasting 1947 scarcity with today’s prosperity and the absence of border barriers within the European Community.
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Jane
E c. Marshall
Harvard Yard
Europe
Marshall
United States
France
Ett
Sorbonne
Paris
Rotterdam
Rome
Charles DeGaulle
Stalin
Atlantic
Stanley Hoffmann
Harvard
le Havre
Holland
General DeGaulle
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Aardvark Arnold
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San Francisco
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