Ferguson Urges Britain to Yield Marshall Plan Credit
Senator Ferguson of Michigan warned that Britain's policy endangers the European Recovery Program. He urged the United States to adopt a tougher stance as the Senate appropriations committee prepared to question State Department officials, including Assistant Secretary Willard L. Thorp, about funding and credits.
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Washington
Ferguson
Michigan
Britain
United States
Senate Appropriations Committee
State Department
Willard L. Thorp
Appropriations Committee
Five in Family Fighting Polio
In Denton Texas seven polio cases affect a family. Mr and Mrs L B Meeker see five children stricken this week. Four children are at City-County Hospital Fort Worth and 15 year old James is at Parkland Hospital Dallas. The couple plan to stay near the children and seek medical care themselves.
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Denton. Tex
Iéss
L. B. Meeker
Fort Worth
James
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Meeker
Lake Dallas
Canton's Soft Drink Boom in Heat Wave
Public demand soars as record heat drives Canton area soft drink sales to about $10,000 daily from 200,000 nickel bottles. Distributors report ample supply, with coins-operated machines ubiquitous in stores and stations. Cola dominates, followed by ginger ale and root beer as shoppers seek icy cold refreshment.
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Canton
World money forms and rare coins in Chase Bank collection
An Associated Press report describes unusual currencies from Yap stone disks to ancient Egypt ring money and Babylon clay tablets, plus U S 1804 silver dollars and early American issues. The piece notes emergency money from 1931 33 and highlights notable coins like Pine Tree shillings and the fugio cent tied to Franklin.
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Chase National Bank of New York
Foreign Exchange Department
Egypt
Babylon
Cleopatra
Alexander, the Great
Chambers of Commerce
Chase
U. S
New England
United States of America
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania
Cleveland Counterfeit Informer Gets Jail Term
Cleveland man George J. Strombos 28 was sentenced to 75 days in County Jail for passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a theater. Judge Paul Jones gave the light sentence after Strombos aided Secret Service agents in cracking an alleged $100,000 counterfeit ring in Washington. Strombos admitted buying four bogus $20 bills but refused to join the ring.
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Cleveland
George J. Strombos
Paul Jones
Strombos
Secret Service
Washington
Eight year old boy killed by car in Newark
An eight year old boy, Jerry Lee Tuttle of Cambridge, was struck and killed when he darted from behind a parked car into the path of an advancing automobile in Newark.
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Boy
Newark
Jerry Lee Tuttle
Cambridge
Two Carnegie-Illinois blast furnaces idle in Youngstown
Two blast furnaces at Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp were shut down in Youngstown due to slack demand for pig iron. The production cutback stems from weaker orders affecting steelmaking activity in the region.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie - Illinois Steel Corp
Youngstown
C R O P Maps New Aid Drive in 25 States
Dayton AP reports plans for the 1949 drive of the Christian Rural Overseas Program are complete in 25 states including Ohio. In 1948 American farmers contributed 75,668,581 pounds of commodities totaling 2,392 rail carloads of food with a value of 6,596,674 dollars. John D. Metzler, national CR0P chairman, lists the states with completed plans to collect farm gifts for overseas people in need.
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Dayton
Ohio
John D. Metzler
National C. R. O. P
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Sen. Ferguson
Texas
Lloyd Potts
Chester Reith
Clifton Humphrey
Everett Todd
H. Co. Johnson
Associated Press
York
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Treasury
Yap
Carolines
Pacific
Laine
Wash
Isaly
Dry Cleaners
Market Ave
Dial
Pickup and Delivery ‘Service
Charles W. Sstoneburner
Cadillac Auto Storage
Cleveland Ave
C.R.O.P
John Earl
2Nd St
Canton, Ohio
Pilus
This National Bank
The
Federal Reserve System and
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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