Army Rocket Range Plans Stir Ranchers
Ranchers oppose a proposed 1 500 000 acre extension to a target range in south central New Mexico asking the Interior Department hearing to block land seizure. Military officials say needed for rocket research with 15 rocket types ready for tests while grazing access could be limited to two to three days a week.
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Las Cruces
N. M
New Mexico
Interior Department
Texas State Line
Ordnance Department
Navy
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Holloman Base
Alamogordo
Philip G. Blackmore
White Sands
Blackmore
London
Antwerp
J. L. Homer
Argentina Bans Price Rises to Cover Wage Increases
Argentina decreed that price increases to offset wage hikes are forbidden and must be absorbed from employer profits rather than passed to consumers.
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Argentina
Lives In 14 Story Cottage By River By HAL BOYLE
New York August 3. The rhymester prefers a riverside home and finds a 14 story brick cottage on the Manhattan side a bustling, quirky community. An insurance firm built the development to house 40 000 people with advancing growth and oddities such as 20 doors hung at once. Residents share a city life with elevators that stall and a tugboat named Tracy that becomes a local character in their river view.
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East
Manhattan
Fair Greenpoint
Brooklyn
Hanging Gardens
Babylon
New York
Insurance Company
Johnny Appleseed
Frances
Tug ‘Tracy
Tracy
Paris Hats Bring Back Cloche Style For 1948
Paris milliners announce a cloche resurgence for 1948. Albouy's hats hug the back of the head finishing past the crown while Simone Cange names her lampshade cloche with side perch and abundant trimming.
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Paris
Simone Cange
Albouy
Cange
Strikes Oil Loses Conviction Record Cleared
George Leingang of Bakersfield California had a 1944 grand theft conviction wiped from his record after a Cuyama valley oil strike increased his wealth to nearly a million dollars and he paid $6,500 in restitution to the two men involved. The superior court ordered the record expunged.
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Los Angeles
George Leingang
Leingang
Bakersfield
Calif
Cuyama Valley
Portrait of Jane Austen drawing bought by National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery in London purchased a Cassandra image of Jane Austen drawn by her sister Cassandra circa 1810. The late 18th to early 19th century work highlights Austen as a literary figure.
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The
National Portrait Gallery
London
Jane
Cassandra
Arizona Airways Wins San Diego Route Shift
Western Airlines will transfer its San Diego to Yuma segment to Arizona Airways pending Civil Aeronautics Board approval. Arizona Airways will operate a Phoenix to San Diego run with Western serving the western end of the route.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Western Airlines
San Diego
Forger Cannot Shake Rubber Check Habit
Nick Michael a 46 year old San Francisco coffee and cake seller wrote a $20 check to a former customer, now a Folsom prison parolee held on bad check charges. The check bounced exposing his habit of rubber checks and the criminal link to a parolee.
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San Francisco
Nick Michael
Folsom
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Rhymester
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Country Club
Flapper
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Tucson
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Tyndall
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Blind CO
Arizona
FHA
First Ave
Stone
Phan
Optometrist
Daniel
E. Congress
Mercury
Livingston Motors
S. 6Th Avenue
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