Five-point program to rescue railroads from controls
Daniel P Loomis president of the American Association of Railroads proposes five steps to end wartime restraints and restore competition. Repeal 10 percent passenger and 3 percent freight taxes. grant ICC final authority to discontinue underused passenger services. allow railroads into motor water and air transport. let carriers price by their costs without cross-carrier impacts. curb evasion by motor carriers posing as private haulers. These measures aim to revive a vital industry for peace and security.
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Daniel P Loomis
American Association of Railroads
Loomis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sunday School Week Aims To Promote Faithful Training
The All Faiths Group and Laymen’s National Committee sponsor National Sunday School Week from April 14 to 20. The theme Our Sunday Schools First Line of Defense urges all to join in strengthening weekly Sunday School work. The aim is to shape young minds by coordinating home teachings with early religious training within Sunday Schools.
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All-Faiths
Owo
How To Cut Taxes From Local To National Levels
A call for reducing government reach across levels to restore tax fairness and efficiency. The author argues public servants have assumed too many functions that should be privatized, referencing Hoover Commission blueprints to push reforms from city councils up to Congress.
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Hoover Commission
Old Days AZTEC Coffee Tease Prompts Tamer Memory
An Arizona Daily Independent Review column recalls a bygone routine of coffee breaks tied to pre-dawn and post-sundown hours, reflecting on past daily rhythms and habits in Aztec.
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Aztec
Independens
Start Saving Now UAW Opens Talks With GM
The United Automobile Workers have begun negotiations with General Motors seeking higher wages and a share in profits. If GM agrees the pattern may extend to Ford and Chrysler, potentially lifting new car prices in 1959 and prompting savers to set money aside.
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United Automobile Workers
General Motors
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
Batting For Uncle Sam in Tennis? Wait baseball star Ted Williams
The piece notes Ted Williams earns about 135000 annually but will net only about 35000 after federal and state taxes. It argues Williams pays more in taxes than keeps, implying he “bats for the government” more than for himself.
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Ted Williams
L. H. Gregory
Sport
The
Portland Oregonian
Innocent Bystander: Farmers Not Driving Price Rise
The writer defends farmers against blame for rising living costs noting that most food items in the price index are not surplus and outside controls. A hidden profiteer may exist between farmer and consumer, but farmers insist they are not getting rich at city expense.
Free Medicine Can Make You Sick
Dr Charles G Jones a Pennsylvania surgeon argues in the February Freeman that free government medicine leads to inferior care and long waiting lists. He cites England where socialized health care strains resources and reduces preventive research, warning compulsory insurance would replicate costly outcomes.
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Charles G. Jones
Pennsylvania
The
Freeman
Jones
England
Big Risks Push US toward Grand National Pitfalls
An article from the American Petroleum Institute Quarterly, written by a top steel executive, argues that the United States must take persistent big risks to fulfill national potential. It highlights Gulf of Mexico oil drilling and taconite iron ore ventures as examples, noting nearly three billion dollars invested and warning such efforts could determine victory in war.
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United States
American Petroleum Institute Quarterly
Gulf of Mexico
Oil and Steel
Trade secretary appeals for extension of reciprocal program
The International Trade Secretary of Commerce Weeks appeals for extending the reciprocal trade program per Administration requests. He warns that more than 4,500,000 American jobs depend on international trade and asserts its either more trade or more trouble.
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Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Are You Happy In Your Work
A humorous reflection on a Gallup Poll finding most dislike their jobs. The narrator lists five points from an article about happiness at work, noting tests, honesty about skills, location, enjoyment, and improving current jobs, with personal anecdotes about labor and family. The piece ends with a wry wish for wealth to quit early and a hope work would be happier with the speaker.
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Gallup
So Much for Today’s Lesson on Economic Adjustment
A compact remark notes relief after an instructional segment on handling economic shifts and rent payments without stress, highlighting practical concerns and a casual take on financial adaptability.
Washington housewives press for action on living costs
Washington-Capital housewives, led by the Washington Chapter of Housewives United formed in 1951, protest high price food packaging and aggressive ads. Members cite built in obsolescence, inconsistent clothing sizes, costly medicines, and rising hospital and burial costs, urging corrective action.
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Jane Eads
Washington
Capital Housewives
Housewives United
Pet
Louis B. Wright
Folger Shakespeare Library
Housewives’ Group
Mastin G. White
Robert Y Kerr
Ralph Flanders
Vermont
Wesley Pierson
Parkville
The Day Of Collapse in an Economically Turbulent Era
The Mesabi Daily News editor warns that inflation threatens economic progress. If inflation becomes normal for management and labor, the economy risks a collapse like a house of cards. The piece urges urgent, solid development to avert this fate.
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Virginia
Minn
Mesabi Daily News
House of Cards
Postal Chaos in Indio Reflects National Post Office Plight
The article argues the Postoffice Department faces long term decline from political interference and chronic underfunding. It notes worsening service quality and demoralization of personnel, stating reforms alone cannot cure deeper issues plaguing the system.
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Indio
Calif
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Puzzle-like crossword style clue list. Contains across and down entries with many garbled phrases and partial words. Appears to be a historical page fragment listing numerous short definitions and wordplay prompts for a crossword.
Swine Disease VE Unreported in '57
The U S Department of Agriculture reports no cases of vesicular exanthema VE in the United States for more than a year. VE once reached epidemic levels across 42 states, though it affects only swine and resembles foot and mouth disease in lesions.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Victory over VE linked to state garbage laws
Stomatitis VE affects multiple livestock species with spread mainly through feeding raw garbage to hogs. Federal officials credit state cooperation, as 47 states have enacted garbage cooking laws. Connecticut lacks such a law. VE emerged in California in 1934, confined there until 1952 when it appeared in Wyoming and then spread, exposing or infecting over 150000 hogs at the peak.
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Connecticut
California
Cheyenne
Wyo
European corn borer increases fall 1957 in US
USDA reports a nationwide rise in live corn borers per 100 plants from 112 in 1956 to 170 in 1957, reversing eastern declines with gains in most north central states. Spread continued south including Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana with Louisiana showing a notable northeast parish expansion. Iowa led with 419 borers per 100 plants followed by Missouri 410 and South Dakota 368.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
USDA
Agricultural Research Service
Angesis
Alabama
Mississippi
L.owsiana
Louisiana
Iowa
Missouri
South Dakota
Penning Wins 1957 DeKalb Corn Growers Champ Title
Henry Penning of Decatur Michigan is named National Champion in the 1957 Selected 5-acre DeKalb Corn Growing Contest, finishing ahead of 4789 contestants with a 203.47 bushel yield. The long-standing competition marks its 20th year, and the name Joyce stems from Latin Jucunda meaning filled with joy.
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Henry Penning
Decatur
Michigan
Penning
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