Man Is Not a Bee by George Peck in Amana Iowa
In Amana Iowa a 77 year communal experiment shows how communal living under strict religious leadership failed. Martyrdom of equality yielded wage abolition then private ownership after 1932 boosting production to over 6 million by 1946. A younger Amana member summed up the flaw claiming man is not a bee.
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George Peck
Iowa
Marx
Lenin
Stalin
Amana
Amana Society
Speed Kills Take It Easy Warns Texas Officials
Col Homer Garrison Jr says DPS cooperates in a year round traffic safety program sponsored nationally by the National Safety Council. Chief W Elliott notes speed causes 13 000 fatalities in 1947. Seven tips urge obeying limits, control, gradual slowing at intersections, safe following distance, mirror use, and lower nocturnal speed to live longer.
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Homer Garrison Jr
Texas Department of Public Safety
National Safety Council
W. J. Elliott
Texas Highway Patrol
N. R. Smith
Uvalde Office
Powdered metal science likened to baking a cake
A housewife using a vacuum cleaner and an Army pilot in a new jet airplane illustrate the rapid rise of powdered metallurgy. A. J. Langhammer, head of the powders division of a major auto firm, describes the process as baking a cake with finely ground metals pressed to 2,000 tons and baked to fuse alloys.
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U. S
A. J. Langhammer
Andy” Langhammer
Langhammer Receives Stevens Medal for Powdered Metal Work
The article highlights Langhammer's 20 years of pioneers in industrial powdered metal application. It notes methods enabling precise, strong parts without machining and self lubricating bearings. His work in oil impregnation for bearings reduces maintenance. He earned the Achievement Medal of Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Langhammer
Stevens Institute of Technology
Cheap Money and High Prices Stay Forever in America
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram argues that inflation and cheap money are permanent in the U S economy. It claims the dollar now buys about 35 cents in gold and that Washington will not easily restore value, predicting enduring high prices despite past hopes for correction.
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United States
Washington
Fort Worth
Cotton improvement groups expand under Smith Doxey Act to West Texas
The program covers part east of the 100th Meridian and most counties west of it with no charges. Applications are to be filed at the Dallas cotton office or PMA classing offices in Austin Abilene Galveston Lubbock and El Paso. Texas had over 1 000 organized groups last year with about 100 000 farmers and over 1 500 000 bales classed, representing about half of the 1947 crop.
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Dallas
South Ervay
PMA
Austin
Abilene
Galveston
Lubbock
el Paso
Texas
McCollum
Do You Remember When Boys Wore Copper Toed Shoes
Poetic reminiscence recalling past eras when copper tipped footwear, grogram silk yards, wooden sidewalks, carbon street lamps, and county towns with early fire alarms shaped daily life.
Smith Doxey Service Seeks Cotton Farmers Class Status
Texas cotton farmers should file group applications for the 1948 classification and market news service. The eastern state deadline is August 1 and the western part August 15, announced John L. McCollum, manager of the Southwest area cotton branch, USDA Production and Marketing Administration, Dallas.
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College Station
Texas
John L. McCollum
Southwest Area Cotton Branch
USDA
Production and Marketing Administration
Dallas
Remembering the old city street shine trades and prices
Vivid reminiscence recalls hose carts and draymen earning a dollar hauling items to fires. Shoe shine stands with dobbers, bootblacks roaming the streets, and Sunday school rituals. Shaves cost a dime and haircuts twenty-five cents in a bygone era.
He Who Loves A City Poem Verses And Greeting Custom
A Dorothy Agard Ransley verse extols love for crowded places towns towers and sunsets in Rotarian Magazine. The piece notes the greeting custom of rubbing noses as a sniffing salute per the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Dorothy Agard Ransley
Rotarian Magazine
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Whitewright
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Fannin
Hi-Way Grocery
J.C
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Buchanan County
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Grayson County
Speed
NAS
Ifor
A. C
Babcock Auto Store
Whitewright, Texas
Roger Q
Iber
Evans
Roger Q. Evans
House of Representatives
Government of
Yroce
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A. B. Jones
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