Profit Motive Evident in Soviet Profit Rise
Moscow reports four month profits at the Stalin automobile plant eight to eleven million rubles and gains at the first State ball bearing and Electrostar plants. The item, cited in The Agitators Handbook, prompts discussion of profit motives in socialist and capitalist systems.
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Moscow
Stalin
Electrostar
New York
National City Bank
America
National City Letter
Longest Home Run Distances in Major League History
In an exhibition in Florida Babe Ruth hit a ball measured at 549 feet, the longest home run. In St. Louis Jimmy Foxx hit one measured at 470 feet, among the few officially measured homers.
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Florida
Babe Ruth
Jimmy Foxx
St. Louis
Society History Tally Spurs Decency Drive in New York
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, now renamed to Society to Maintain Public Decency, reports it has arrested more than 5,500 people over a 75 year span as part of its moral policing campaign.
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New York Society For the Suppression of
The
Society To
Herd Improvement Organization Meet Scheduled June 23
The Virginia Federation of Dairy Herd Improvement Assn. chartered recently will hold an organization meeting in Charlottesville on June 23. One DHIA representative from each of Virginia’s 48 DHIA units will join the federation board. officers and by laws will be elected. The assembly room at Monticello dairy hosts the event with T. T. Curtis presiding.
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Charlottesville
Virginia Federation of Dairy Herd Improvement Assn
Virginia Agricultural Extension Service
DHIA
Federation
Monticello
Armstrong
Virginia
T. T. Curtis
Orange
Herbert Gordon
Baskerville
G. T. Grice
Blacksburg
Glass Scheduled For Gainesboro Talk
W. W. Glass will address Gainesboro memorial services at 2:30 p m Sunday in the church and place a wreath on an unknown grave in cemetery rites. The service opens with a piano prelude by Mrs. Julian Larrick and an invocation by Walker McC Bond who also speaks. Special music from a Winchester EUB church quartet and duets by Mrs. Mary Ramey and Mrs. Lola Ruble. Soddy Haines will sound taps for Capt. Joseph R. Woods CSA.
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W. W. Glass
Gainesboro
Julian Larrick
Walker McC. Bond
Winchester Eub
Mary Ramey
Lola Ruble
Soddy Haines
Joseph R. Woods
Cows Chew Through One Ton of Grass Daily
A herd of 14 dairy cows consumes about one ton of grass each day from a pasture, illustrating heavy grazing pressure and pasture requirements for dairy operations.
Life's Like That by Fred Neher
Cartoon humor notes children have lower blood pressures than adults while a krypton lamp shines at a brightness of 10,000,000 candlepower per square inch.
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Fred Neher
Steel ingot production in 1947 US totals 84.7 million tons
The 1947 steel ingot output in the United States reached 84.7 million tons, about five million below the wartime peak. The word hock, meaning light white wine, comes from Hochheit or Hochheimer wines of Germany.
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United States
Hochheit
Hochheimer
Germie
Hat’s Big Question Spurs Vigor in Debate
A broad national discussion unfolds as citizens weigh competing views on a sweeping policy change. Opinion voices from multiple regions highlight regional impacts and emphasize the importance of inclusive dialogue.
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Sedan
Pine Motor Dodge
Plymouth
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Glass
Koouaip
Leh
Virgil
Junior
Leggett
Bonaire
Winchester's
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
de Luxe
Wilkes
Buick
Fisher
Ture
Henry J. Taylor
Motuel Network
Prideys
H. W. Ebert
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