Petroleum Industries Committee Adopts Six Point Program
Des Moines Iowa six point program aims to establish fair motor laws aid motorists and oil marketers. The Iowa Petroleum Industries Committee announced the plan calling for cooperation with officials a reasonable gasoline tax highway safety vigilance against tax evasion and repeal of federal automotive excise taxes when world conditions permit.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Petroleum Industries Committee
Prize hogs at Iowa State Fair offer record swine show purse
The Iowa State Fair announced record hog prizes for the national swine show in Des Moines from August 23 to September 1. Cash offerings for the 10 day event will exceed 21 000 dollars, according to H M Duncan, swine department superintendent from Columbus Junction.
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Des Moines
H. M. Duncan
Columbus Junction
TV to Tour State Institutions
A Des Moines series announced by the State board of Control will air 18 half hour programs over WOI TV for 18 weeks starting in May. Episodes feature inside views of mental hospitals homes reformatories and the penitentiary with patients children and inmates demonstrating daily routines and activities.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Control
Woi-Tv
Orinoco River Deepens Through Angostura Constriction
The Orinoco River in Venezuela has carved a channel through Angostura and Ciudad Bolivar to depths of 262 feet below sea level, with banks 800 yards apart. It runs with a mean depth of 335 feet and fluctuations up to 52 feet.
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Orinoco
Venezuela
Angostura
Ciudad Bolivar
Name From Rhyme It Bears Moffat House in Hereford
One of England's noted country homes, The Moffat House in Hereford shire, takes its name from the nursery rhyme figure Miss Muffet.
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England
Moffat House
Herefordshire
Miss Muffett
Beauty course prompts budgeted waistline shift
Ninety nine per cent of the half million women enrolled in a home beauty course reported chips out of proportion to other measurements. That accounts for an American budget of nearly $300 million for corsets and girdles, annually.
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