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July 6, 1929

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Headlines from July 6, 1929

Bleriot Invites Col. Lindbergh To Channel Hop Celebration

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Invited by L Bleriot to 20th anniversary celebration of English Channel flight

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OIL MEN GO ABROAD FOR WORLD PARLEY; To Take Up Vexed Question of Export Prices With Leading European Producers. HOPE TO RESTRICT OUTPUT Series of Meetings Will Attempt to End Friction With Foreign Interests.

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R C Holmes on way and J A Moffatt and G P Whaley to sail for Eur to confer with oil heads on revision of export prices, elimination of friction between Eur and Amer interests and world production curtailment

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CLEVELAND FLIERS SET A NEW RECORD FOR ENDURANCE; Put Mark for Refueling Duration Flight at Just Over 174 Hours, Then Land. BEAT OLD TIME 1 HOURS Sixty Thousand Crowd to theAirport to Cheer Newcomb and Mitchell's Feat. HAD TALKED OF 200 HOURS But Wearied by Their Seven Days' Coursing Through the Air, They Suddenly Descend.

By Special to The New York Times

land safely; illus of plane; pors of fliers

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HOOVER SUMMONS SIX OF FARM BOARD TO ORGANIZE JULY 15; He Thinks Those Chosen Form a Majority Sufficient to Begin Work. FOR HASTENING OPERATION He Desires Body to Function by Aug. 1 and Aid in Moving Fall Crops. CONCERNED OVER VACANCIES But He Still Hopes to Have Full Complement Named Before First Meeting.

By Special to The New York Times

Elected pres of Internatl Harvester Co

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ROOSEVELT BRINGS CLOAK PEACE NEARER; Gets Leaders of All Factions to Consent to Resume Their Negotiations Wednesday. CONFEREES ARE OPTIMISTIC Agree in Diagnosis of Ailments of Industry and on Measures to Improve Conditions.

By Special to The New York Times

Conf at Albany; will be resumed in N Y C

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1929Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, French politician historian (died 2023)^[†]

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was a French political historian who specialised in Russian history. From 1999 until her death in 2023, she served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie Française, to which she was first elected in 1990.

Headlines from July 6, 1929

Bleriot Invites Col. Lindbergh To Channel Hop Celebration

OIL MEN GO ABROAD FOR WORLD PARLEY; To Take Up Vexed Question of Export Prices With Leading European Producers. HOPE TO RESTRICT OUTPUT Series of Meetings Will Attempt to End Friction With Foreign Interests.

ROOSEVELT BRINGS CLOAK PEACE NEARER; Gets Leaders of All Factions to Consent to Resume Their Negotiations Wednesday. CONFEREES ARE OPTIMISTIC Agree in Diagnosis of Ailments of Industry and on Measures to Improve Conditions.

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