Making Yes Getters Out of Go Getters Says Dallas Leader
Ben Smith of Dallas told the National Wholesale Furniture Salesmens Association at the Furniture Mart that newspaper advertising gauges a business’s health. He urged regular ad use as a home town business doctor offering merchandising and sales ideas to boost results.
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Chicago
Ben Smith
Dallas
Texas
National
Wholesale Furniture Salesmens Association
Furniture Mart
Smith
Chevrolet Sales Gain in August Report
Detroit August 22 Chevrolet shows record gains in the first ten days of August as 1939 model production winds down. Retail sales of 17,814 passenger cars and trucks mark a 14.2 percent rise from 1938, with used car sales up 12 percent to 37,050 and truck sales increasing 26.4 percent to 4,963.
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Detroit
Chevrolet
Vast changes in army since war days arrive at maneuvers near Plattsburg
An aged World War veteran views modern army maneuvers near Plattsburg and notes rapid mechanization from cavalry to tanks, Garand rifles, fast artillery, and motor transport. He recalls 1916 mobility limits and questions shortages cited by Lt. Gen. Drum while observations include medical units, signal corps, and bridge construction. Separate notices authorize New Mexico bonds, detention homes, Capitol renovations, educational construction, and aeronautics funding. Activities also cover cotton classification service applications closing Sept 1 and county farmer organization progress in Acala cotton.
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New York
Rip van Winkle
A.E. F
Rip
Catskills
Adirondacks
Plattsburg
Pershing
Mexico
France
7Th Cavalry
Pancho Villa
Signal Corps
Hugh A. Drum
van Winkle
Lee Pullard
U. S. Department of Agricultural Marketing Service
U. Ss
New Mexico Cotton Committee
Sierra County
Garfield Gin
Dona Ana
Luna County
Washington
New Chrysanthemums For Plains Conditions Emphasized
The U S Department of Agriculture circulates New Chrysanthemums focusing on Plains suitability. Twelve seedlings introduced in 1937 have been tested from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast and as far south as Oklahoma. Varieties such as Algonquin Barnegat Geronimo Matawan Muskogee and Otsego are highlighted with rose or yellow colors and single or double forms.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Coast
Great Plains
Oklahoma
New Mexico
F. F. Whitley
New York
England
Algonquin
Amoskeag
Barnegat
Geronimo
Manantico
State debt burden rises with 50 million bond estimate
Rupert Asplund notes a conservative total of fifty million dollars in bonds debentures and certificates for the state its institutions and subdivisions. Legislature actions last session could add eight to ten million more, funded by earnings, fees licenses and taxes. Chapter 200 of 1939 authorizes 1 450 000 in state institutional building bonds if Constitutional Amendment No 1 is ratified at the September 16 special election, per Charter 198.
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Santa Fe
Boards of Regents of
New Mexico Aeronautics Commission
State Board of Finance
State Highway Department
War of Nerves in Europe Fueled by Propaganda
A New York dispatch analyzes how Europe’s looming conflict is fought with radio and press propaganda. It traces the rise of official messaging from Wilson to Goebbels and Churchill, the prewar buildup after Czechoslovakia and Memel, and the current mix of peace rhetoric and coercive measures shaping the crisis.
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New York
Europe
David
Woodrow Wilson
Danzig
Hitler
Czecho-Slovakia
Memel
Poland
France
England
Mussolini
Goebbels
Winston Churchill
Germany
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Fred Neafie
Delores Campbell
Spring Lake Beach
N. J
Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy
and Marquess of
Hartington
London
United States
Joseph P. Kennedy
Marquess of Hartington
Marquess
Duke of Devonshire
Muskogee
Matawan
Otsego
Gloria Franklin
Robert Taylor
Hedy Lamarr
Tropics
Garbo
Gilbert
N. M. Tax Talks
Rupert Asplund
Josef Beck
Adolf Hitler
George Potocki
TczEw
Karl Burckhardt
Arthur Greiser
Marian Chodacki
Fuehrer
Karl Burchhardt
Warsaw
Senate
Reich
Ralph Pryor and
H. M. McClure
U. S
Kansas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Ralph Pryor
Oil Advisory Committee of
Michigan Oil Advisory Committee
Oklahoma City
Interstate Compact Commission
National Safety Council
Sue Andso
el Paso
Industry Spur
Delaine Rams
J. E. Smith Livestock Company
Pilot Rock, Oregon
Aero Mayflower
Nationwide Furniture Movers
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