Jet Propelled Planes Ignore Fuel Rules in Disclosures
A disclosure notes that jet propelled planes and missiles use varied fuels from coal oil to Napoleon Brandy. The remark suggests a chaotic fuel landscape akin to nightlife in the twenties.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1948
Page
4
Income Up Despite Rising Consumer Dander
The Commerce Department reports higher consumer income while observers note a rise in household irritability. Economic signals show stronger earnings alongside unsettled sentiment among buyers and shoppers.
Hearst Editorial Calls MacArthur Man of the Hour
The Pittsburgh Press reports a Hearst editorial naming MacArthur the man of the hour yet notes he is unlikely to be the man of four years. The piece frames the contradiction between current acclaim and longer term prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Press
MacArthur
Hearst
The Growler proverb from Lynchburg News
A brief saying from The Growler column frames confidence and self view. It notes that self doubt breeds grumbling while self assurance fosters calm competence. The aphorism contrasts two types of men to illustrate attitude and behavior.
Young Forney Slightly Injured By Car
David Forney three year old son of William Forney was slightly injured when struck by a car. County Agent I Fred Stine said a large delegation of Frederick and Clarke county farmers would tour the experiment station at Orange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Forney
William Forney
I. Fred Stine
Frederick and
Clarke County
Orange
Sagatoga dwelling badly damaged by 1943 fire near Boyce
Five years earlier Sagatoga history notes a serious blaze at a historic dwelling near Boyce. A cable and letter from son Howard Allen confirm his safety in North Africa as Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Allen receive the news. Jones funeral home gains membership in the worldwide Order of the Golden Rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagatoga
Boyce
L. M. Allen
Howard Allen
North Africa
Jones Funeral Home
Order of the Golden Rule
Frederick County Republicans elect Eugene Anderson chairman
Eugene Anderson was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Frederick County Republicans. Sixteen Middletown high school graduates received diplomas. D. J. Howard the vocational agriculture supervisor in the northern district of Virginia was awarded the American Farmer degree by the Future Farmers of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Anderson
Frederick County
Republicans
Middletown High School
D. J. Howard
Virginia
FFA
Local Rotary marks three years of service to community
In 1923 a local Rotary club celebrated its three years of service to the community. Four chicken houses on Martinsburg Pike were raided, with a total of 70 sows reported. Daniel B. Conrad from this city authored an apple article published in Field Illustrated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg Pike
Apple
Daniel B. Conrad
Field Illustrated
Dunkards Attend Naperville Convention in Illinois
A large group of Dunkards left the city for the annual convention in Naperville Illinois. Lurien Carr from Cambridge Massachusetts arrived to spend the summer with his son Lucien Carr Jr. Mary Neikirk received a surprise party at the home of Charles Frye on Senseny Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Naperville, Ill
Lurien Carr
Cambridge
Mass
Lucien Carr Jr
Mary Neikirk
Charles Frye
Senseny Rd
Strength for the Day by Earl L Douglas
An inspirational piece urges Christians to trust Providence as a Chinese boy carries a heavy wheelbarrow load behind his father. The moral: believers share the burden by trusting that the Father in Heaven bears the heavy end of the load.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl L. Douglas
D. ED
Heaven
How's Your I Q A 10 Question Test Page 2 Answers
A student quick test asks 10 questions on memory IQ and general knowledge with scoring from Poor to Genius. It includes questions on the Daughters of the American Revolution stance, Hawaii annexation, sentence correction, a major steel firm wage controversy, and sun surface phenomena cycles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of the American Revolution
Europe
United States
Hawaiian Islands
Name the former GM president and WWII coordinator
The prompt asks to name a former GM president who coordinated American industrial production early in World War II and died in Detroit in April. The likely figure is Charles E. Wilson, who was chairman of GM and later U.S. Secretary of Defense, though death details and April locality would need verification. The other questions ask Black Jack Pershing, Belgium’s location relative to the Netherlands, Walter Reed Hospital’s status, and the exclamation quote attributed to Commodore John Paul Jones or others. confirm exact sources for accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Motors Corporation
Detroit
Black Jack
Charlottesville Seeks Natural Gas Pipeline Intervention
Charlottesville filed a petition with the Federal Power Commission to intervene in hearings on Atlantic Seaboard Corp. plans for a natural gas pipeline from Charleston West Virginia to near Washington. City Attorney Lyttelton W. Waddell says the city aims to switch from manufactured gas to natural gas. Popcorn cultivation noted as far back as 400 A.D.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Federal Power Commission
Atlantic Seaboard Corp
Charleston
W. Va
Washington
Lyttelton W. Waddell
Big Horn Cowgirl Praises Winchester Visit
Miss Benner, rider with the Daily Brothers circus, extols Winchester and the Shenandoah Valley as friendly and lovely. She hails from the Big Horn basin of Wyoming and sent the compliment to editor S C Benner of The Northern Wyomin Daily News after a two week stay with the circus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
S. C. Benner
Wyoming Daily News
Daily Brothers Circus
Benner
The
Evening Star
What is a skipnet and its historical use
A skipnet is described as a small silver box for holding the wax seal attached to treaties. It notes long disuse with most nations abandoning them by 1906, Britain using one until 1918, and the United States ceasing use around 1850 after earlier use from 1815 to 1857.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
United States
Women hold $40 billion in U.S. life insurance now
The article notes women own about 40 billion dollars of life insurance in the United States, a sum greater than the total life insurance in force at the end of World War I, signaling a major shift in female financial power and policy ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
One Room School Faces Vanishing Shuffle in US
An estimated 15 percent of American elementary pupils remain in one room, one teacher rural schools. This snapshot notes a declining pattern as schools reorganize to multiroom setups across the countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Leap Year courtship ends in happy marriage
From where I sit Joe Marsh notes Jane Cupper daughter wed Bill Webster's son last Saturday. He asks Bill Jr. if Janey proposed and Bill replies she planned a stable home life. He praises young couples for temperance tolerance and common sense, wishing Jane and Bill luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuppers
Jane
Bill Webster
Bill
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