Amarillo Veterans Buy Surplus Goods from War Assets
October sales show 1,104 Amarillo area veterans purchasing surplus items from War Assets Administration Fort Worth. Purchases ranged from typewriters and cabinets to wheelbarrows and a calculator, with a total value of 1,435,559.84 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
War Assets Administration
Fort Worth
Frederick W. Dodson, Jr
Louisiana
George W. Diver
Oliver Eaklé
Herman L. Holcomb
Kentucky
Thomas H. Jones, Jr
Harrison
McGuire Construction Company
West Twenty-first
Francis E. Walsh
West Tenth
Fred N. Vaughn
van Buren
Dodson
Diver
Holcomb
Jones
McGuire
Walsh
Vaughn
Thermopane seals reduce heat and dust in windows
Libbey Owens Ford Glass Company develops Thermopane glass reducing sun heat by about 80 percent and dust ingress. At Elkton plant living organisms grow in test tubes to fill 15 000 gallon tanks while sterility rooms at New Jersey plant require ample daylight without heat. Merck produced streptomycin rushed for war veterans and later found effective against influenza meningitis and other resistant diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Libbey-Owens- Ford Glass Company
Elkton
New Jersey
Merck
Selman A. Waksman
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Rutgers University
Streptomycin Prices Cut In 900 Cities By Merck Plan
Amarillo reports streptomycin now available at about half the previous price in 900 cities nationwide. Northwest Texas Hospital and St. Anthony's Hospital designated as depots by the Civilian Production Administration with adequate civilian supplies anticipated. Merck & Co plans mass production at a three and a half million dollar plant with help from Minneap olis-Honeywell Regulator Co Lib bey-Owens-Ford Glass Co and others using wartime knowhow to boost output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Northwest Texas Hospital
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Civilian Production Administration
Merck & Co
Merck
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co
Honeywell
Court asked to compel dealer to sell auto in Ohio case
Mrs. Mercedes K. Vinocur lodges suit in Cleveland to force Willoughby dealer Larick Motor Sales to deliver a promised new car from August 1945. She says she has only received a runabout and seeks an injunction in the Common Pleas Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
A.P
Mercedes K. Vinocur
Willoughby Auto
Larick Motor Sales
Miss Vinocur
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John Garvey
Pierce
Stewarts
Rene Coner
Gallagher & Burton
Pat’s
Taylor St
N. EF
N. Fillmore
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River Drive
Pleasant Valley Cleaners
B.O
Wwe
Patol
Turkey
Taylor
Drug Dept
Skinner Mfg. Co
Omaha
Neb
Drug Division
Nebr
COPR
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