Quarter-mile High radio towers threaten tallest world record
The article notes radio towers rising higher than contemporary skyscrapers. WKY Oklahoma City stands at 960 feet, rival towers include WNAX Yankton at 927 feet, with Budapest’s is claimed taller but destroyed during World War II.
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Plans for a 1520 foot Cowles broadcast tower near Des Moines
The Cowles Broadcast Co plans an FM and television tower near Des Moines reaching 1520 feet, over 100 yards taller than the Empire State Building. Engineer Glenn D. Gillett notes another firm eyeing a 1600 foot tower in the Middle West and says height has no hard engineering limit, but costs rise steeply with height.
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Exchanges Turn Down Request to Boost Margins
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said representatives of Chicago Minneapolis and Kansas City grain futures exchanges declined at a conference to raise margin requirements to 33 1 3 percent. The government cannot compel higher margins and talks lasted over an hour with market officials.
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Food saving seen to center on wheat use
Washington reports the fight against hunger abroad hinges on reducing U S wheat use by about 100 000 bushels through voluntary conservation and wartime controls The cabinet food committee estimates only 470 million bushels can be exported this crop year and up to 860 million may be needed domestically if trends continue
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Food officials weigh flour use and bread sizes policy
Officials debate power to require manufacture of gray flour or regulate bread size or ration flour. Some argue greatest savings come from using wheat for livestock feed, though wheat is treated as a food grain and fed to livestock mainly when corn supplies are tight.
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Bulk of Corn Crop Safe from Frost Damage
The Agriculture department reported that 70 percent of this year's corn crop was largely safe from damaging frost as of Sept 19, with northern Midwest frosts reported since then. In Iowa, above normal temperatures and wind kept 83 percent in mature or nearly mature dent stages by Sept 19, up from 66 percent a week earlier.
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