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...Dixon (pop. 10,000) and Davenport (60,000), Americans anguished with the Lindberghs, exulted with Earhart and fervently argued national politics. The Dixon Evening Telegraph came out for Hoover, who took the county...
...most of all, people were talking about the Depression. In a poignant cartoon, the Dixon Evening Telegraph memorialized dejected workers leaving a steel and wire company carrying their lunch buckets home after being laid off. In Davenport the Union Bank failed, a year after the American Savings Bank and Trust Co., and the John Deere Co. shut down six plants, throwing 716 men out of work. In surrounding Scott County a monthly average of 7,000 persons -10% of the population-were on relief, getting beans, flour and potatoes. People were understandably riled that Iowa farmers, angered...
Other nations were watching closely. On Japanese television, astronomers and space specialists took turns filling the airwaves with learned commentary on Voyager's progress. In Britain, television stations broadcast a drumbeat of bulletins on the mission. London's Sunday Telegraph hailed the achievement as "the most spectacular piece of space exploration since men stepped foot on the moon...
Minister Menachem Begin told the London Sunday Telegraph that Jordanian-Iraqi military cooperation "is very serious to us." Such warnings have heightened worries in the West that Israel could feel compelled to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iraq if Iraq emerges from this war too cocky and powerful...
...went to London for a night to see a civil young man who says he is the editor of the Sunday Telegraph. He signed his letters 'Peregrine Worsthorne.' I said 'an unusual name' . . . Well, this man of mystery proposed to send me abroad for a treat. We drank heavy and I behaved rather like Randolph [Churchill] in his braver moments, calling for more and better wine, until I said: 'I presume Michael Berry is paying for this?' 'No, indeed, I am, out of my wages.' So then I felt I had behaved...