Best Time To Buy Stocks Is A Year Ago
The piece cites expert panels from a satirical edition of The Bawl Street Journal noting the best time to buy stocks was a year ago. It highlights cheeky ads by Wall Street firms and a joke plan named Blue Couch for financial wizards needing therapy.
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Wall Street
Bawl Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Bawl Street
Internal Revenue Service
William Zeckendorf
Will Rogers
Blue Cross
Blue Shield Medical and Hospital Insurance
Park and Shop program spurs Tuscon downtown growth
Downtown Tucson faced heavy car traffic in the early 1950s. The Park-and-Shop program launched in fall 1954 offered free validated parking, distributing about 500,000 parking stamps and prompting new off street facilities. By 1958 Tucson used over 200,000 tickets, attracting Louisville to study the program. Ade Abbott of the Tucson Chamber explains the city’s rapid transformation and national interest.
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Tucson
Chamber of Commerce of
Louisville
Ade Abbott
Labor Bill Talks Pin Down House Support
Labor insiders expect a new anti racketeering bill to pass this summer with a $100 million annual cost and a 500 agent staff to police unions. Walter Reuther and George Harrison pressed Speaker Sam Rayburn for a softer measure, while warning reforms must come with specifics. Rayburn indicated a bill would pass but warned labor leaders to align on a concrete proposal.
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Congressional
Walter Reuther
George Harrison
Railway Clerks Union
Sam Rayburn
House
Sam
Bonham, Tex
Reuther
Harrison
Senate
Rayburn
Labor
House Labor Committee
The Russians Came To Stay In Berlin 1945 View
West Berlin observer argues Russians will remain in East Berlin after 1945 while the U S should shift focus to a unified West Europe. The piece highlights the Garden of Remembrance and Stalinallee as signs of Soviet will to stay and urges firm, not surrender, positions to aid Germany’s recovery.
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West Berlin
Berlin
Hitler
Europe
U. S
Guatemala
Russia
West Europe
Germany
East Berlin
Garden of Remembrance
Stalinallee
Khrushchev
How To Beat The Heat Think Cool And Imagery Tricks
Ed Creagh suggests playful heat relief through imagined cooling scenes and self transforming fantasies. He warns some readers may prefer hot thinking while noting humor about Russians and a tropical hammock fantasy.
Government employs 600 lenders? No, Census sampling explains jobs
Government figures on employment rely on a monthly survey of about 35,000 homes visited by 600 Census Bureau workers. They interview residents about work status to estimate national totals of employed and jobless, claiming accuracy within roughly 100,000 in a 66 million plus workforce.
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Census Bureau
United States
Wheat Surplus Problems Across US and Canada
The article analyzes a global wheat glut in the United States and Canada caused by subsidies and price supports. It notes vast unsold stocks, storage costs, and limited world demand, with Canada relying on exports and the US having built large surpluses since World War I. It discusses divergent national needs and policy approaches.
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Midas
United States
Canada
Arizona Album Desert Home Built with Local Materials
A historical note recalls settlers in Arizona a century ago using cholla, saguaro ribs, mesquite, palo verde, grasses, and mud plaster to build dwellings. The design often opened living spaces to the desert scene, mirroring sidewalk dining like a French cafe. The photo features a desert dweller and his wife with five children.
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Arizona
Planning
Arizona Desert
Henry Buehman
What Rich Dad Owes His Sons
A 1960 Citizen essay argues that sons of wealthy, driven fathers feel resentment and inadequacy when reduced to a family role or a business legacy. It warns that prioritizing company over family damages both, urging fathers to treat sons as individuals and cultivate leadership built on personality, not possession.
Interruptions as lessons from a quiet Bible moment
A devotion reflects on Jesus feeding the crowd in Matthew 14 13 21 and how interruptions test and refine our lives inviting gratitude for divine presence in quiet moments A caller offering a dance prize symbolizes unexpected disruptors in daily life and the need to stay open to guidance and prayer today.
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Jesus
Christ
Tuesem Council of Churches
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