Southern Pacific division reports big safety gains in 1950
M A Nugent notes nearly half drop in personal injuries for 11 months 1950, with Tucson division ranking high in company safety. He cites use of respirators goggles and Mars headlight devices, plus ongoing training and strong top management support to lower accident rates and economic loss.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
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J. W. Corbett
G. A. Bays
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Los Angeles
Rio Grande
Reggie Russel
Jeff White
Southern Pacific
B. S. Weiler
Ford Truck Line Has Many Models
Ford Motor announces a 1951 truck line with more than 180 models and price increases from 75 to 275 dollars over 1950. The line includes a five star extra cab option with sound proofing and insolation. An automatic power pilot carburetion ignition control aims to improve power and economy by adjusting fuel delivery to varying loads.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Urge Quick Action As Egg Price Soars
Egg prices surge across major markets with Philadelphia Boston and Pittsburgh facing 85 to 95 cents per dozen wholesale. A price spike prompts talks of suspending trading in Philadelphia New York and Chicago as merchants predict a dollar a dozen this week.
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Reporters beaten by townsmen in Ellenton near H-bomb plant site
Redbook writer Jon Herndon and photographer Ike Vern were roughed by 15 to 20 locals as they prepared to photograph Ellenton’s churchgoers. They fled to Augusta then New York, fearing lynching and fearing the article would portray residents as rubes. No complaints filed and attackers unnamed.
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Redbook Magazine
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Ike Vern
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New York
South Carolina
Atomic Energy Commission
Herndon
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Ex Nationalist General Reported Executed
Chinese Nationalists in Formosa report that former Nationalist General Yu Ying chi was executed by the Reds at Swatow port on November 28. The claim notes Yu's wife betrayed him to the Reds.
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Formosa
Yu Ying-chi
Swatow
Migul Ve Regarucu
Iivneanucu
Korea
Britain
America
Truman Attlee Conference Signals Peace Aim No Appeasement
DEWITT MACKENZIE reports the final communique from the Truman Attlee Washington conference calls for Russia and China to join in peace efforts and declares the Anglo American alliance will not yield on principles. It urges faster strengthening of military power to deter war and promotes a peaceful Korean settlement without appeasement.
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Attlee
Washington
Russia
China
Indi
Britain
England
France
Europe
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America
Ronment
House of Commons
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Uranium gram could kill millions warns Army expert
San Antonio December 11 Col Robert C Gaskill chief of preventive medicine for the Fourth Army says a gram of uranium 235 could kill 125 million people but bomb efficiency is low. He cites atomic attack would cause 100000 casualties with 33000 dying instantly and 33000 dying later. Training could save a fifth of lives.
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San Antonio
United States
Robert C. Gaskill
Fourth Army
Gaskill
Gambling raid nets 17 men and six women in Phoenix
Sheriff's deputies arrested 17 men and six women in a raid on a gambling house at 1248 Buckeyerd. The crowd formed around a large dice table when the front door was breached. Deputies found a gun three razors and 1¢ knives on the floor. The women were jailed and the men placed in county jail.
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Phoenix
Buckeyerd
B. W. Wickstrum
National Guard Adds 472 In 6-Week Drive
The Arizona National Guard recruited 472 new members in six weeks, raising totals to 2,379 officers and men. The 158th Infantry based in Flagstaff won the rifle company trophy for the largest gain, adding 22 new recruits.
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Phoenix
Arizona National Guard
158Th Infantry
Flagstaff
British Electricians End Their Strike
British Electricians at state owned line end a two week strike after BOAC placed two non union electricians with other crews. The men will return to work and negotiations will proceed though terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
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Britain
Vile Duartigee
British Overseas Services
America
BOAC
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