Voice of Opportunity airs job bids for top executives
In Chicago a new radio program titled The Voice of Opportunity seeks to place white collar workers worth $3600 to $15000 and up in high paying jobs. The Morene Personnel Service creator Bob Whiteside says executives relax at home with music while listening to candidates describe their backgrounds and desires. The maiden guest, an advertising man, discussed roles from stock brokers to soap manufacturers and eyed a $10,000 annual salary.
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Chicago
Voice of Opportunity
Bob Whiteside
Morene Personnel Service
College of Law
Applicants Ad Lib Salary Pitch During Briefings
Applicants each receive five minutes to present their case as calls begin arriving. Identities remain hidden until call time, and the influx has been steady and rapid.
Texas Chick Output Surges 35 Percent in June
Texas commercial hatcheries produced 2.7 million chicks in June and farms yielded 283 million eggs, per USDA data. Chicks rose 35 percent from June last year, while first-half chick output climbed 5 percent. Egg production fell 6 percent from June last year’s 300 million.
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Austin
Texas
Economics Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Forbear of 134 Dies in Paris
Mrs. George Russell 94 oldest member of a five generation family died in Paris Tuesday. She had 134 living descendants.
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Paris
George Russell
Man Seeks Prankster After Bottle Cap Incident
Andrew Pitts, 33, awoke to find a beer bottle cap dropped in his mouth at a San Antonio pool hall. He swallowed the cap and was hospitalized. Pitts plans to file assault charges against the prankster, while police investigate.
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San Antonio
Andrew Pitts
Pitts
William Porter
Family of 7 prospers as worm prices soar
Olympia, Washington. Agnes Kenmir, a 35 year old housewife, says worm prices rose from 18 cents a dozen last year to 25 cents now. The Lacey family plans a new home as they expand their worm business picking up to 2500 nightcrawlers nightly on capitol grounds between midnight and 5 am.
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Olypia
Wash
Agnes Kenmir
Kenmir
Lacey
Kenmirs
Worms
Lawrence
Joseph
Capitol Grounds
Olympia
Millionaire Callahan Will Sets Aside 3000 for Horse and 500 for Dog Grave
In Tiffin Ohio probate records, Frank S Callahan, 82, left 3000 for Direct the race horse and 500 for Baby Ginter the dog s grave monument. The will also provides for the dog s elaborate 1932 funeral and most of the estate to his wife Elizabeth of Youngstown.
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Tiffin
Frank S. Callahan
Callahan
Elizabeth
Youngstown
Ohio
Valley Cotton Swamps Gins in Hidalgo County Harvest Boom
Cotton piles up at Rio Grande Valley gins as farmers begin harvesting what may be the region’s largest crop. Hidalgo County leads in gin pileups while Cameron and Willacy report heavy plantings. prices stand at 38 cents a pound for cotton and $85 a ton for cottonseed. The crop may reach 230 000 to 250 000 bales with ideal weather and limited insect damage.
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M’allen
Rio Grande Valley
Hidalgo County
Cameron
Willacy
Makeup man says films no bloodier than last year
Max Factor Jr defends Hollywood on gore levels noting studios bought 11 gallons of synthetic blood this year, the same as 1946. He links last year’s high consumption partly to Duel in the Sun. He explains production of the red solution for black and white and color films.
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Hollywood
Max Factor Jr
Factor
Seventeen-Year Locusts Return For Summer Visit
The 17 year cicada reappears this summer after 16 years underground. Biologists say they harm crops little and mainly affect nerves with their short adult life. Adults live about 30 days, mate, lay eggs, then die. Nymphs emerge, feed on roots, then go back underground for 13 to 17 years before the cycle begins again.
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Rip van Winkle
Papa
Honorary Texas colonels and reshuffled governorship
216 new honorary Texas colonels, rangers and rangerettes were appointed after Sen. T. C. Chadick of Quitman served briefly as acting governor. Lt. Gov. Allan Shivers returned to relieve Chadick, ending a 30 hour term. Beauford H. Jester Jr. was named a special ranger.
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Austin
Texas
T. C. Chadick
Quitman
Allan Shivers
Chadick
Beauford H. Jester Jr
Flash heat method for home egg preservation
Instructions describe preserving eggs at home by dipping in boiling water for five seconds then air cooling and storing in cartons in a cool moist place. The steps emphasize quick heat treatment and proper containment to maintain quality.
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Bill Sheffield
Big Boy Williams
Royal the Wonder Horse
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Jack Armstrong
Prevue
James Cagney
Rue Madeleine
Annabella
Walter Abel
Anne Baxter
William Holden
Sonny Tufts
William Bendix
Sterling Hayden
Ann Sheridan
Nora Prentiss
Kent Smith
Bruce Bennett
Las Vegas
Olivia DeHavilland
Lew Ayres
Thomas Mitchell
the Dark Mirror
T. W. Ayres & Son Peters
Electrolux
Johnson
F. E. Copeland
Whitewright
White Auto Store
Tom Barbee
Presbyterian Church
Marathon
Edwin Badgett
Hi-Way Launderall
Robert Collins
West Grand Avenue
G. V. Ford
Johnson Jewelry
Black Top Road
Orangeville
Eddie Montgomery
Calvert, Texas
Morris Moss
Bonham, Texas
Fred Starr Jr
Pilot Grove
Stephens & Bryant
South Bend Street
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
White
Marathon Oil
Philco
RCA Radios
Truman Tomlinson
South Bond Street
Home of Flowers of Sherman
Carl May
Ownby Brothers
Ownby Bros
Ector
Federal Land Bank
Grayson County
Nat's Farm Loan Association
Grady Ellis
Secy-Treas
W. Houston St
Sherman
Blackland
Whitewright- Bells
Bells
M. C. McCollum
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
H. B. McMahan
M. B. Cobb & Son
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Valley
Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin-Wills
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