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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1955
Page
13
Walter Granville of a major container firm predicts stronger and more varied colors will dominate everyday living and auto design. He notes color harmony guides thousands and expects patterns such as plaid and stripes to appear in car schemes while bold contrasts remain common.
National Geographic Society and Palomar Observatory publish a universe atlas priced at 2000 dollars per copy. The 1758 photomaps cover three fourths of the sky from Palomar, reaching 600 million light years, using a 48 inch Schmidt telescope.
About 42 million dollars a year is spent by American gasoline service stations on customer premiums. This figure surpasses a third of the 1954 service-station construction total of 120 million dollars.
Governor Knight rejects report claiming New York Thruway is safest. California freeway fatality rate last year stood at 1.92 per 100 million vehicle miles, versus 2.43 cited for the New York Thruway. California notes three-year annual declines in fatalities amid rising traffic and an average daily traffic of about 45,194 vehicles.
In the Champagne region of France the principal towns are Reims Epernay Ay and Chalons. Natives of the area are called Champenois.
R Stanley Dollar, a 75 year old shipping and lumber magnate, continues leading the Dollar Interests in San Francisco. He began at 17 in his father Captain Robert Dollar’s firm, rose to VP and GM in 1922, and now oversees Dollar Associates Inc with Ventures in airlines and hotels. He cites his father’s belief that work builds happiness and rejects retirement.
Two Ann Arbor physicians report in JAMA that dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate a synthetic wetting agent can help dissolve hard masses and function as a laxative. Developed 15 years ago the material mixes water and fat to aid dissolution.
Vedide Baha Pars heads Gazi Teacher Training College in Ankara and leads teacher training across ten upper school subjects. Her work supports free education for Turkey where one million schoolchildren lack schools and teachers. Pars, once cloistered in a harem, champions Western education standards amid rapid modernization.
A speaker calls for national effort to expand basic education amid limited yearly progress. She highlights the country's will to improve living standards and growing communication methods as avenues to develop original educational strategies.
Brazil's 1954 cotton exports reached 308 486 tons with Japan and Germany accounting for more than a third. Exports abroad more than doubled over the last two years, signaling a sharp rise in foreign sales.
Tokyo explains postwar reforms forming a 633-4 structure with six years primary six years secondary three junior high three senior high and four university years. The first nine years are compulsory. Earlier system required six years compulsory and different middle school and college lengths.
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