Spot Check Highlights Postal Service Timing Oddities
A Washington Post spot check of mail delivery shows three cent letters can take similar time to distant cities as six cent letters. Tests reveal air mail faster to Dallas and Los Angeles than to closer points, with several cities experiencing multi day delays and uneven office versus home delivery.
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Washington
D. C
Dallas
Arlington
Potomac River
Postal Service
United Press Office
Los Angeles
New York
Hartford
Con
Des Moines
Denver
Colo
Salt Lake City
Atlanta
New Orleans
Richmond
Richmond, Va., Miami, Fla
Detroit
Mich
Springfield
Ill
Chicago
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Chicago Tribune
Tribune
Times Square
New York City
Advertising Age
Truman Backs Policy of Ike at Missouri Assembly
Former President Truman urged support for Eisenhower foreign policy during a joint session in Jefferson City. He told about 2,000 attendees not to hang hides on the fence and to back the President for world peace and future generations.
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Jefferson City
Truman
Eisenhower
Missouri Reval Assembly
United States
Host mutters fear of missing train as guest jokes
A guest tells a host to speed to the station while the host jokes his wife would kill him if he misses the train. The exchange highlights a tense ride as they rush toward departure with humor masking anxiety.
Tornado Strikes San Angelo Causes $3 Million in Damage
Red Cross estimates total losses at 3,209,000 after Lakeview area tornado ruins 288 homes destroyed and many more damaged. Nine dead, 72 hospitalized, 350 left homeless. Lakeview High and Elementary School hit hard with 500,000 in damages.
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San Angelo
Red Cross
Texas
Lakeview
Tom Wagley
Abilene
Wagley
The
Radford Named Military Head in Top Command Shakeup
President Eisenhower named Admiral Arthur W. Radford as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Radford will be the first Navy officer to head the panel, succeeding Omar N. Bradley. Gen. Ridgway becomes Army chief, Gruenther to Supreme Allied Commander Europe, with other NATO and naval leadership shifts announced. Taft lauded the changes as a fresh slate to realign strategy and spending.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Radford
Omar N. Bradley
Navy
Joint Chiefs
Matthew B. Ridgway
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Alfred M. Gruenther
Ridgeway
Europe
Robert B. Carney
NATO
William M. Fechteler
Nathan Twining
Air Force
Senate
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Texans Owe Sharks As Much As All 47 Other States
A study by Western Reserve University finds Texans owe nearly half of the money loaned to sharks in the U S The Junior Bar of Texas cites this as a reason for proposing a constitutional amendment and statute to cap charges and place loan companies under banking supervision The text also includes a joke dialogue about a tenant and landlady.
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Austin
United States
Texas
Bureau of Business Research of
Western Reserve University
Edward B. Winn
Dallas
Bar of Texas
Bar of
State Bar of
State Banking Department
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C. J. Meadow Truck and Tractor Co
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Thornhill Laundry
Farley & Hill
Dean Printing Co
Ford
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Babcock Auto
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Johnson Jewelry & Appliance
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C. J. Meador Hardware
Grady Gillett
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