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[Clipping: Our Slackening Growth Demands Attention]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about the degree to which certain industries -- particularly technological and manufacturing industries -- can continually grow once the market is saturated. Several sentences are underlined in blue and red pen, regarding a shift to "replacement" needs for people who already own the manufactured goods. The back of the clipping includes partial ads for mattresses, a hair salon, and other items.
Date: 193X
Creator: Tracy, M. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Patton Returns From Scene of Oklahoma Fire]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing Hugh L. Patton’s extinguishing fire in Oklahoma City. The article touches upon the express concerns of Lieutenant Colonel Cicero Murray and the State conservation committee on using nitroglycerin to extinguish these fires. The well fire was extinguished by an explosion of nitroglycerin resulting in a wild and uncontrollable fire destroying 6,000 barrels of oil. The newspaper clipping is attached to a letter from R. C. Showalter to Alex Bradford informing him that S… more
Date: October 2, 1936
Creator: Showalter, R. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: People Who Read and Write]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about how Reader's Digest versions of books are affecting sales of the full versions, as well as book reviews for several titles such as The Far Shore by Max Miller, Robinson Crusoe by Blake Clark, and Faces in a Dusty Picture by Gerard Kersh.
Date: April 22, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Political Cartoon and Fishing Article]

Description: Political cartoon created by Looey Graff depicting a plump and wealthy war plant striker with an arm wrapped around the shoulder of an injured World War II veteran yelling, “Well! We Won the War! Didn’t We Kid?”. The back of the political cartoon features an article touching upon fishing and the three different types of fishing activities: hobby, sportsman, and deep-sea. Two additional cartoons are at the bottom of the article.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Watkins, Nina E. & Graff, Looey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Radio Hearing Aid]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing the creation of a new inexpensive hearing aid created by Commander Eugene F. McDonald Jr. and the Zenith Radio corporation. The article is separated into three (3) sections covering the background of Mr. McDonald Jr., the creation of the affordable hearing aid, and the potential market impact.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Remember the Votes of the Men Who Vote Against You]

Description: Newspaper clipping of assorted articles by various authors covering information on seven (7) elected congressmen and their personal politics. A chart is provided on the second page that details these congressmen’s voting patterns regarding American interests. In addition to covering these seven (7) congressmen who voted against American interests and covers five (5) congressmen that have supported American interests.
Date: April 2, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Russia Wants 25 Years of Peace]

Description: Journal clipping describing the authors thoughts that after the hardships of the Second World War, Russia is ready for an era of peace and reconstruction. Child's presents arguments on why it's only now that the Soviet Union is looking to sign peace treaties with its "allies". Additionally, Child's suggests that through peace treaties American business interests, will soar.
Date: unknown
Creator: Childs, Marquis W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Second Well at Oklahoma City Controlled By Special Die Nipple]

Description: Journal page with portions of several articles, primarily describing the explosive oil well near the Northwest corner of Oklahoma City and the construction of a special metal collar that was used to safely control the oil well. Most of the article is centered around the construction of this metal collar and its effectiveness compared to an earlier oil well disaster.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Selected Delegates and Proposals]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing various precincts issues and the assigned delegates. Two sections of the newspaper have been highlighted with red and blue colored pencil. The first highlighted section describes a unanimously passed decision to back Roosevelt during this time of war. Delegate Alex (Tex) Bradford has been underlined in red pencil. The second highlighted passage is focused on precinct 42 & 43 and their discussion of various possible delegates.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Smoke Protects Fighters]

Description: Bulletin article discussing the advantage of smoke screens to cover the positions of troops, cities, harbors, ships, and camps during WWII. Partial articles on the reverse of the pages discuss military technology and medical research.
Date: July 1, 1944
Creator: Monahan, A. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Spanish Republicans in Dire Need - UNRRA Says Its Hands Are Tied]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing the plight of the Spanish soldiers after the fall of the Spanish republic to the Nazi party in 1939. The article briefly touches upon the horrors that fell upon these captured Spanish soldiers and the possibility of escaping. Finally, the author of this clipping touches upon the Spanish resistance and the need for allied assistance.
Date: April 3, 1945
Creator: Van Devander, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
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