Kaiser hiring policy sparks race tension at Kaiser plants
Henry Kaiser moves hiring to the U S Employment Service as the Boilermakers Union threatens action after eight negro promotions. The federal stance forbids discrimination and the clash tests enforcement as labor groups push for skilled positions for black workers amid a tense national debate. Captain Forrest Sherman remarks on a torpedo shock from the carrier Wasp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Kaiser
New York
A. F. of L. Boil- Hiring
U. S. Employment Service
Boilermakers Union
Tom Ray
Kaiser
This Is the Enemy a History of Hitler Told by Five U P Journalists
Five United Press correspondents detained in Bad Nauheim during World War II synthesize years of frontline reporting into This Is the Enemy. The volume, written in exile and published by Little, Brown, profiles Hitler, Ribbentrop, Goebbels, Himmler, and Hess, and outlines Nazi policy, Blitzkrieg tactics, and looting of conquered territories.
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Walt Rundle
New York
Gestapo
United Press Berlin
United States
Germany
Bad Nauheim
Hitler
United Press
Wehrmacht
Third Reich
Frederick C. Oechsner
United Press Central European
Joseph W. Grigg, Jr
Berlin
Glen M. Stadler
Paris U. P
Jack M
Oechsner
Ribbentrop
Fuehrer
Britain
Poland
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Heinrich Himmler
Rudolf Hess
Grige
Fleischer
Reich
Conger
Stadler
France
U. P
Nauheim
Europe
New Orleans
Louisiana
Grigg
Bangor
England
Berln
Peru
Ind
Lansing
Mich
Paris
Milwaukee
Wis
Denmark
Michigan
Copenhagen
Zurich
London
Little, Brown & Co
Boston
A Promise for Tomorrow and Four Ships Launched
Julie Hamilton, a dedicated surgeon and daughter of Dr. Tom Hamilton, juggles a busy practice and family duty as Fowler shipyards shows off four new ships. Pete Fowler, crippled yet undaunted, returns to the scene while Julie faces career and romance pressures and wrestles with unspoken longing as wartime progress unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julie
Pete
Fowler Shipyards
Flannigan
Pete Fowler
Fowler
Thomas B. Hamilton, M. D
Julie B. Hamilton
Dad
Miss Dalton
Tom
Sissy
M. D
Fowlers
South Pacific
Old Dalton
Bart Rogers
Rubber and Balloons How Balls Are Made and Market Tricks
A National Geographic style tour explains golf ball manufacturing from rubber sheets to core wrapping and gutta percha covers. It details testing methods, rate of production, and the evolution of balloon making under war demands with figures on materials, tests, and profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Flynn
J. R. Hildebrand
National Geographic Magazine
Hildebrand
Rube Goldberg
Paris
New York
Ohio
Hidebrand
Ferdinand
Son
New Orleans
Origin of Gremlins in War Era Tale of Foes
A Cosmopolitan story by Pegasus recounts how mythical gremlins invade the RAF world. It follows a woodland tribe driven from their home by factories and air war, culminating in a single feared word that spreads through bomber and fighter squadrons across theatres.
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England
Gus
Dover
Dover-London
United Kingdom
Malta
Libya
Egypt
Palestine
Iraq
India
Ceylon
Land of Questionnaires in Nation's Business
Anxious American industrialists amid wartime paperwork face seas of forms from federal agencies. Tales circulate of firms loading files into trucks to dump at Washington offices and of a thirteen pound fully documented questionnaire sent to officials, reflecting the era of pervasive bureaucratic requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SEC
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
WPB
Courageous Congressman Maas Saves Congress and Medal
Rep Melvin Maas Minnesota Republican Marine aviator and World War I veteran disarmed a gunman in the 1932 gallery incident, earning the Carnegie Silver Medal. He later received the Silver Star for gallantry in action near New Guinea and Milne Bay duty as a Marine Corps Reserve officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Maas
Minnesota
Maas
Navy
Actio
New Guinea
Marine Corps Reserve
Pacific
Milne Bay
Enem
Rita Hayworth tops glamour pack in wartime praise
Jerome Beatty recounts Rita Hayworth rising from glamorous unknown to Hollywood star acclaimed by peers and soldiers. The piece notes her talent, ambition, and brains as essential to her success, contrasting with earlier impressions of beauty alone. It includes a letter from Iceland praising her bathing photos.
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Priscilla
John Alden
Pete
Julie
Doc
Rita Hayworth
Hollywoo
Hollywood
Rita
Wayworth
Rita Wa
Hedy Lamarr
Beth Grable
Ann Sheridan
Lan Turner
Fred Astaire
Adolf Hitler
Unite States
Th Daughters of the American Revolution
United States
D. A
Miss Hayworth
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Toffite
Amarillo
Texas
Amarillo Daily News
Globe News Publishing Co
Girth Fillmore
Gene Fowfe
John McCarty
Forrest Sherman
Wasp
Eleanor Atterbury
Chapter
Bart Roger
Country Club
Bart
Encyclopedia
Pegasus
T. N. Sandifer
New York Times
AEF
Jerome Beatty
American Magazine
Rysian Front
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