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...July 9), the search for a warning device to prevent such disasters in the future became a major concern of U.S. airlines. Last week the airlines finally thought they had found what they wanted. The Air Transport Association approved a collision alarm system blueprinted by Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a company as little known to the public as it is famed in aviation...
...company upon his lifelong hobby, tinkering with radios. (His newest hobby: tinkering with sports cars.) At 15, he made a newspaper name for himself as a ham operator who contacted the U.S. naval expedition to the North Pole. In 1931, he started turning out ham radio transmitters from a Cedar Rapids basement. Two years later he formed a company with $29,000 in capital assets...
Tiny (pop. 975) Winlock, one of the bureau's early success stories, rose above the peril of a cutback in local timbering operations, went on to find a modest new industry, i.e., a $750,000 cedar-shake processing plant, and to pay for a wide range of community improvements with more than half a million dollars worth of bonds. It also reaped considerable nonmaterial bonuses: attendance at church and community functions has tripled, and election turnouts of 90% are common...
...boasts 54 hotels, 25 more than the Hilton chain, although Hilton has 1,700 more rooms and grosses some $40 million more a year. All the Eppley hotels are in new territory for Sheraton, and all but three were sold outright. The others, Omaha's Fontenelle and Rome, Cedar Rapids' (Iowa) Montrose, will be leased by Sheraton...
...hours have been extended in response to repeated student demands, brought out at this year's Cedar Hill Student Government conference. Unless a sufficient number of students, "approximately 35," make use of the library from 10 to 11 p.m., Miss Porritt said, the experiment will not be repeated...