Strikes Slow Up Work On U S Defense Program
Fourteen strikes were in progress today in defense industries delaying shipyards steel mills automotive and aviation parts plants radio and heavy machinery factories. Union demands include greater share of defense spending union recognition and better working conditions with a House committee weighing bills to outlaw strikes in plants under army navy or marine orders.
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United Press
House
Army
Navy
Washington
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Milwaukee
Wis
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
International Harvester Co
Hinton to retire as Amarillo Chamber of Commerce chief
Carl Hinton, longtime Amarillo Chamber of Commerce secretary manager, announces retirement effective midnight April 15 1941. He will stay in Amarillo and work without salary for Panhandle Water Conservation Authority and the Will Rogers Memorial Celebration while continuing advisory service to committees and projects. Directors took no action, president says none needed.
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Carl Hinton
Chamber of Commerce
Amber of Commerce
Inton
Amarillo
Merce
Panhandle Water Conservation Authority
Texas
Washington
Panhandle
Jason Robberson
Indian travois used by Plains Indians for hauling
The primitive vehicle known as a travois used by Plains Indians features two dragging poles acting as shafts for a dog or horse, with a platform laid across the two. This simple carriage carried the tribe’s belongings as they moved across the plains.
Vatican installs air conditioning to preserve manuscripts
In the Vatican library two electric climate control units were installed to safeguard ancient manuscripts. One device dries the air in summer while the other moistens it in winter, creating a stable environment for the fragile documents.
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Vatican
Pontius Pilate Demoted After 2 000 Years
Kansas City note reports Pontius Pilate to be demoted after nearly two thousand years. In a May 18 release the Biblical revision lists him as procurator of the Roman province rather than governor. Bishop Edwin O Hara leads the effort with Archbishops Murray and McNicholas and a scholarly board.
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Kansas City
Pontius Pilate
Judea
Jesus
United States
Edwin O'Hara
Pilate
Rome
O’hara
John Gregory Murray
St.Paul, Minn
John T. McNicholas
Cincinnati
Royal York Hotel Tops British Empire as Tallest Building
The Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada is described as the tallest building in the British Empire, marking a notable architectural milestone for the era.
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Royal York Hotel
Toronto
Canada
Texan Rarin To Blow Up Nazi Capital
Corpus Christi fireman and oil well blasterTex Bradford arrives in London eager to join British war effort. A six foot former prizefighter, he boasts dynamiting skills and readiness to strike Berlin. He served in the AEF last war and now seeks work with Canadian uniform, hoping to target Axis targets with nitro and blast.
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Eddy Gilmore
London
Tex” Bradford
Corpus Christi
Texas
Tex
Berlin
Gibraltar
Four Colors Enough: Map Coloring Requires Only Four
A classic result shows that any planar map can be colored with at most four colors so that no two adjacent regions share a color. This confirms the four color theorem, illustrating that complex districts can be colored with four distinct hues to avoid identical neighboring colors.
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U. S. Defense
Middle West
Chicago
Rock Falls
Farm Equipment Workers’ Organizing Committee
Richmond
Ind
Harvester McCormick
Moore Drydock Co
Oakland
Cal
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
American Federation of Labor
Bridgeville
Vanadium Corporation of America
Defense Steel Industry
Cateret
N. J
Lansing
Mich
Lackawanna, N. J
Cleveland and
Cincinnati, O
C. OF C
Dean
Doan
El-Rayco Agency
Fisk
Alice Faye
Betty Grable
Jack Oakie
John Payne
panAlley
Elviry
Roy Rogers
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Central America
South America
Dominion of Canada
F.H. A
Eyou
Dial
The
State Theater
E. E
Buster) Ransom
Ransom
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