10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “A Republican deal on terrorism trials and interrogations would give President Bush wide latitude to interpret standards for prisoner treatment, even though it doesn’t include a provision he wanted on the Geneva Conventions. The resulting legislation, if passed next week by Congress as Republicans hope, would revive the CIA’s terrorist interrogation program because it would reduce the risk that agency workers could be found guilty of war crimes.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “One of Detroit’s glamorous automotive dreams made headlines this week… Ford disclosed that it was experimenting with a battery-powered electric car and would test one in England next year. Ford officials conceded the electric car probably was 10 years from becoming a reality again on American highways.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “American exports have finally passed the half-billion dollar a month mark. Statistics issued today by the department of commerce show that goods sent abroad in August were valued at $510,000,000, a record not only for this country but for the world.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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