Investigation Of Baltimore Bridge Collapse Picks Up Speed As Divers Recover 2 Bodies From Water Search For Others Killed In Bridge Collapse
   
Associated Press News Wire Article published in the Anderson Herald
March 27, 2024 June 19, 1958
    Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after a container ship lost power and rammed into the bridge early Tuesday sending vehicles plunging into the water. A recovery effort resumed Wednesday with divers searching for six construction workers who are still unaccounted for. …

Read the full article here.		     VANCOUVER B.C. (AP) — Workers probed through the tangled wreckage of an unfinished 16-million-dollar bridge Wednesday seeking bodies of men killed in the tragic collapse. Meanwhile British Columbia officials started an investigation into the collapse of the structure late Tuesday. The grotesquely tangled and twisted wreckage of the Second Narrows Bridge over the swift-flowing Burrard Inlet has given up the bodies of 14 workmen crushed or drowned when two 140-foot sections fell from their supports. Two other bodies were visible in the water under the wreckage and two men are missing. More than a score of workmen were being treated in hospitals for injuries ranging from minor to loss of limbs.
Fight To Protect Dignity Of Michelangelo\S David Raises Questions About Freedom Of Expression Even As A Statue Godiva Attracts Attention
   
Colleen Barry for the Associated Press News Wire Article published in the Creston News Advertiser
March 28, 2024 October 27, 1949
    FLORENCE Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. But in the current era of the quick buck curators worry the marble statue’s religious and political significance is being diminished by the thousands of refrigerator magnets and other souvenirs sold around Florence focusing on David’s genitalia. The Galleria dell’Accademia’s director Cecilie Hollberg has positioned herself as David’s defender since her arrival at the museum …

Read the full article here.		     COVENTRY Eng. Oct. 27 - Theyve had to put a fence around Lady Godivas statue to keep the peeping Toms away. A statue showing the lady clad only in her tresses and sitting side saddle on a horse was unveiled last Saturday by Mrs. Lewis Douglas wife of the U.S. ambassador. Almost immediately crowds wanting a closer look began trampling over the surrounding turf. City officials put up a three-foot high barricade yesterday to save the grass. According to legend Godiva rode forth in the nude some 900 years ago to shame her husband the lord of the town into giving tax relief to the people.
Last Survivor Of Uss Arizona From Pearl Harbor Attack Dies At 102 Great French Battleship Sunk Only 3 Men Perish
   
Audrey Mcavoy for the Associated Press News Wire Article published in the Montana Helena Independent
April 1, 2024 August 27, 1922
    HONOLULU (AP) — Lou Conter the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor has died. He was 102. Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley California following congestive heart failure his daughter Louann Daley said adding she was beside him along with two of her brothers James and Jeff. The Arizona lost 1177 sailors and Marines in the 1941 attack that launched the United States into World War II. …

Read the full article here.		     L’Orient France Aug. 26.—(By The Associated Press).—The battleship France 23000 tons one of the prides of the French navy struck a rock off Quiberon bay in the darkness of early morning today and went to the bottom in 75 feet of water. All but three of the 900 officers and men in the crew were rescued from rafts and lifeboats launched from the battleship before she took her final plunge. The wrecked warship was one of four French battleships of the first line returning from night maneuvers to anchorage at Port Haligyen when at 1 oclock in the morning she ran on a hidden rock 25 feet below the surface. A giant gash was torn in the steel hull of the dreadnought. She remained afloat for an hour giving ample time for the crew to abandon ship.
Sends Vehicles Into Water… Ship Mishap Dumps Vehicles In River
   
Associated Press News Wire Article published in the Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
March 26, 2024 February 24, 1977
    A cargo ship lost power and rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday destroying the span in a matter of seconds and plunging it into the river in a terrifying collapse that could disrupt a vital shipping port for months. Six people were missing and presumed dead and the search for them was suspended until Wednesday morning. The ship’s crew issued a mayday call moments before the crash took down the F …

Read the full article here.		     HOPEWELL Va. (UPI) — The sulphur carrier Marine Floridian today smashed into the Benjamin Harrison lift bridge collapsing one section and dumping four vehicles into the James River. A Coast Guard spokesman said two survivors were pulled from the water and divers were trying to determine the number of casualties. Two cars and two trucks were found on the river bottom. The vehicles had been waiting on the span for the ship to pass when they were dumped into the murky waters of the James. Early morning motorists watched horrified as the unladen tanker appeared to have a steering failure and headed for the fixed portion of the three-quarter mile long bridge. The 612-foot Marine Floridian which had tried to stop by dropping anchor upstream blasted its horn to warn those on the bridge to get away. Wayne Bolton 31 who was waiting for the ship to pass through the channel as he was on his way to work said the vessel veered slowly toward the fixed span. In desperation Bolton said the ship released its anchors to try to stop.
How The Dream Chaser Spaceplane Plans To Shake Up Space Travel In The Future Space Travel Experts Give Opposing Views
   
Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News News Wire Article published in the Washington Court House Record Herald
March 28, 2024 October 13, 1952
    Imagine just for a second stepping into a world where space travel isn\t just for astronauts but for everyone including you. Now picture the Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane and its Shooting Star cargo module all lit up in soft blue lights at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky Ohio. …

Read the full article here.		     NEW YORK Oct. 13—A modern Columbus predicted Monday man will go sailing through space in only 10 to 15 years but another rocket expert says were nowhere near it. The go-slow on space travel dreams was sounded by Wilson W. Rosen director of the Viking Rocket Project Naval Research Laboratory. He declared he has a ‘down-to-earth attitude about space travel after six years’ work at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico where rockets have been shot to heights of 250 miles. But he says we don’t know enough about lots of things to send men up in rockets to explore and travel through space with any real degree of safety. Another expert declared that in 10 to 15 years we could have a man-made satellite whizzing around the earth at an altitude of 1075 miles with 80 to 100 humans aboard it. The authority is Dr. Wernher von Braun technical director of the U. S. guided missiles development group in Huntsville Ala. and the scientist who developed the German V-2 rocket in World War II. From this satellite he said we could take off in rockets to the moon or elsewhere in space.
What Does The Mifepristone Case Mean For Plan B? The Difference Between The Two Explained. Carter Supports Court Decisions
   
Nicole Fallert, Usa Today for the Usa Today News Wire Article published in the Ottumwa Courier
March 26, 2024 July 13, 1977
    Emergency contraception is not the same thing as the abortion pill but these medications are often confused. While both involve reproductive health emergency contraception ‒ often called Plan B ‒ is meant to stop a pregnancy from happening and the abortion pill mifepristone ends an existing pregnancy medical experts say. Delineating the two medications is more important than ever as the Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on a case that could sharply limit access to mifepristone. …

Read the full article here.		     WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter expressing support for Supreme Court decisions limiting the extent to which taxpayers money must be spent for abortions for poor women says it isnt the governments job to ensure exact equality of opportunity for all Americans. Carter made the observation in response to a question at his news conference Tuesday. “There are many things in life that are not fair that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant” the President said. ‘But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal particularly when there is a moral factor involved.”
A Bridge Collapses In Baltimore Heavy Loss Of Life Indicated In Collapse Of Bridge In Brazil
   
Nicole Fallert, Usa Today for the Usa Today News Wire Article published in the Syracuse Herald Journal
March 26, 2024 January 19, 1944
    Good morning Daily Briefing readers! Here are todays top stories. A major bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday after it was struck by a large cargo ship. Also in the news: A major abortion case is back in the Supreme Court on Tuesday with implications for the approval of medications in the United States. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani says he was unaware his …

Read the full article here.		     Rio de Janeiro Jan. 19 (UP).— Dispatches from Porto Alegre said today that the giant bridge across the Rio das Antas in Rio Grande do Sul Province had collapsed killing and injuring a number of persons. The bridge is one of the largest in South America and early reports indicated a heavy loss of life. There were no immediate details.
Fast Food Workers Are Losing Their Jobs In California As New Minimum Wage Law Takes Effect Supreme Court Upholds Rail Labor Act And Frazier-Lemke Law
   
Emilee Coblentz, Usa Today for the Usa Today News Wire Article published in the Lincoln Evening State Journal
March 26, 2024 March 29, 1937
    An earlier version of this story attributed the combined number of eliminated positions to a single company. The story has been updated to reflect some of the anticipated cuts at individual employers. Fast food workers are losing their jobs in California as more restaurant chains prepare to meet a new $20 minimum wage set to go into effect next week. Restaurants making cuts are mostly pizzerias according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal. Multiple businesses have plans to axe h …

Read the full article here.		     The Supreme Court in a complete reversal of its previous historic decisions upheld the constitutionality of the Washington state law establishing a minimum wage for women. The long delay in deciding the case had caused speculation. The court also upheld the validity of the railway labor act of 1934 companion legislation to the Wagner labor act and the farm mortgage moratorium act. The minimum wage decision which served to affirm the decree of the court in favor of the law was made possible by Justice Roberts shifting from the conservative to the liberal side of the bench. The four regular justices in the New York minimum wage case the decision of which threatened to create a political issue agreed that under the courts 1923 decision in the Adkins District of Columbia case the New York law must fall. This decision of 1923 has served to strike down all minimum wage legislation for women since that date. The railway labor act decision was made in a suit involving the Virginian Railway company.
Weight Loss Drugs Cost $1000 A Month But Less Than $25 To Make. Why Do We Pay So Much? Senate To Probe Diet Pill Industry
   
Karen Weintraub, Usa Today for the Usa Today Rv John Chadwick published in the Joplin Globe
March 29, 2024 December 20, 1967
    New-generation weight-loss drugs can retail for about $1350 a month but a new study from Yale University suggests they cost just $22 to make. Similarly life-saving insulin can be manufactured for well under $250 a year the study found but it took pressure from the Biden administration to bring out-of-pocket costs for many Americans down to about $420 annually. Everyone likes to complain about how much drug companies are overcharging for medications but it\s been nearly impossible to know …

Read the full article here.		     WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate investigation was announced Tuesday into the diet pill industry where Sen. Phillip A. Hart said a patient’s health and purse can often be reduced as rapidly as his weight. Hart a Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee said in a statement that a six-month staff inquiry has turned up strong indications that: Drug suppliers specializing in diet pills recruit doctors into the weight-reducing field as an implement manufacturer might seek dealers sometimes promising physicians yearly incomes of $100000 to $300000. Mass production handling of patients by many obesity specialists precludes the kind of careful medical attention essential to safe use of diet drugs. No date was set for the start of hearings but Hart said he hopes to get them under way early in the new year. Hart’s announcement of public hearings on the diet pill industry was made as a Senate small business subcommittee under the chairmanship of Sen. Gaylord Nelson D-Wis. continued its probe of pricing practices by prescription drug manufacturers Nelson said a 29-city survey conducted by his office showed widespread and shocking price differences paid by public agencies with taxpayers’ funds for prescription drugs. The obvious conclusion to be drawn he said is that the price charged to public agencies is whatever the traffic will bear in each particular instance. The most extreme example cited by Nelson was a spread of 11655 per cent between the price paid by Grand Rapids Mich. and Cook County Chicago for reserpine tablets. He said that while Grand Rapids was paying $160 for 5000 tablets the price paid by Chicago was $2.09. Grand Rapids was buying on a trade name basis Nelson said while Cook countys order was for a generic product supplied by a generic house. Another example he cited involved sulfate tablets. Nelson said that while Des Moines and Newark were paying $22.60 for this drug on a trade name basis the city of Los Angeles was buying on a generic basis.
Im Too Young To Retire: What Forced These Workers To Retire Before They Were Ready ‘Retirement Fund’ For The Kennedys Started By Gop
   
Daniel De Visé, Usa Today for the Usa Today News Wire Article published in the Whitewright Sun
March 28, 2024 July 11, 1963
    Randy Seacat expected to retire at 75 if at all. The labor market had other plans. Seacat lost his customer support job at Amazon Web Services in late 2020 at age 58. He has not found work since even after applying for more than 1700 jobs and sitting through 51 interviews. Now 61 he submitted application No. 1746 the other day but still has no job. “I’ve never had a problem having a job in my lifetime” he says. “I do really great on the phone interview but when they find out how old I am… …

Read the full article here.		     WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee hopes to raise more than a million dollars this year in 10 contributions toward a “Kennedy retirement fund.” That is a fund to retire the Kennedys from office. One of the circulars it is sending throughout the country shows three rocking chairs labeled “His” “Bobby’s” and “Teddy’s.” The accompanying text asking contributions says: “A rocker gives a fellow the illusion of going someplace when he’s really sitting still. (If you rock hard enough itll back up on you.) “Thats the way it is with the country today. We may be moving (back and forth sideways up and down) but it doesn’t exactly appear to be forward.”