What’s Ahead In Auto Engines
The article previews three engine types as future possibilities. Fuel injection may reach luxury cars next year offering fuel economy and smoother operation. Gas turbines show long lead times due to cost and materials. Free piston engines promise fewer parts but remain unproven and buggy. It notes atomic propulsion as unlikely and mentions the sequoia tree as the world’s oldest living organism at about two thousand years.
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Changing Times
Kiplinger Magazine
Driving records show varied safety ranks across professions
A Paris News survey of four million policy holders ranks 64 occupational groups by driving records. Propr proprietors and wholesale managers top the list for safe driving while enlisted military personnel sit last. Military officers rise to 30th place. editors and lawyers shift modestly. farmers stay high but hired hands drop. Premiums rise with higher losses.
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Paris News
Diet and Aging Trends Quickened Growth in Children
London researchers say today’s children mature up to five years faster due to better nutrition. Experiments in rats show underfeeding delays aging, while overfeeding in infancy may hasten it. UK's Korенchevsky team tests poison-free diets and organ support to slow aging.
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London
Alexander Comfort
University of London
Britain
Vladimir Korenchevsky
Elsie Widdowson
Cambridge University
Oxford
Reginald Fisher
Hugh Sinclair
Sinclair
W. J. Jessop
Dublin
Ike Real Tough Says GOP Solon
Rep. Usher L. Burdick of North Dakota said President Eisenhower will outlive critics who fear a second term. He praised Ike as tough and warned life-span fears are unfounded. He noted bones and muscles as examples of strength.
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Ike
Gop Solon
Washington
Usher L. Burdick
N. D
Eisenhower
Burdick
Average federal salary hits 4102 in 1955 for continental U.S.
The Civil Service Commission reports the 1955 average federal salary in the continental United States at 4102 dollars a year, up 192 from 1954. Half of 2,045,626 employees earned that rate or less, the other half that rate or more. the June 30 1955 world average was 4035 dollars, up 185 from 1954.
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Washington
Continental
United States
Civil Service Commission
For Sale Ads and Local Service Listings Compile
Classified snippets include a 1947 Pontiac for sale at Dr C P Johnson home with contact FO 4 2255. Also Daw son Butane advertises year round service and phone 5 2969. Johnson Jewelry & Appliances sells used Frigidaire fridges and lighting fixtures. Dollarhide Hardware offers wiring supplies FHA approved.
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Pontiac
C. P. Johnson
Dollarhide Hardware
Average American uses cosmetics and owns cars rising
A historical note shows 1954 incomes under $2,000 a year with 5.4 percent in a group rising later. It also cites average cosmetic use and car ownership increasing since 1940, with 73 percent of families owning autos and a 1940 baseline near 50 percent.
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Walker
Bae
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Grayson Oleo
Lady Betty
Talk-Of-Texas
Gladiola
Cran
ZEE
Texas Tavern
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Kimbell’s
Diamond Tomatoes
Kraft Orange-Ade
Griffin
David Johnson
John W. McMurry
West Grand Avenue
O. L. Jones
Whitewright
Johnson Jewelry & Appliances
Hannah’s
H. H. Taylor
Guy Hamilton
Johnson
C. J. Meador Hardware
Paul Stephents
Stan
Olan R. van Zandt
Linda Theatre
Jane Wyman
van Johnson
The
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Technicolor
VistaVision
Donald O’ Connor
Bing Crosby
Mitzi Gaynor
Dallas
Gary Cooper
Steve Cochran
Ruth Roman
Randolph Scott
Gail Russell
Lee Marvin
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