FDR Tours Fort Worth Bomber Plant in War scrutiny
President Roosevelt visited the Consolidated Aircraft plant in Fort Worth as part of a nationwide war inspection. He toured a long, windowless line producing four motor bombers and cargo planes, meeting Lt. Col. Elliott Roosevelt and viewing the manufacturing process under fluorescent lighting. The line length was described as probably the longest straight assembly stretch in the country.
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Fort Worth
Roosevelt
Texas
America
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Elliott Roosevelt
Air Corps
Consolidated
George J. Newman
Amaurillo College Elects Class Officers
Class officers were elected this morning at a special student assembly. George Wyatt is president of the sophomore class and Pred Brady leads the freshman class. Sophomore proxy, member of Beta Delta Gamn pre law, also staffer on The Ranger. Freshman president belongs to Sixth Column and studies engineering.
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Amaurillo College
George Wyatt
Pred Brady
Beta Delta Gamn
Prelaw
Ranger
Martha Starkey
Robert Bigelow
Sigma Iota Chi
Drucilla Adelman
Don Spikes
Margie Adams
O. D. Thompson
Calls for Speed Against Inflation In Wartime
Davis told Senators that small war distressed businesses must face sacrifices fairly and understand wartime aims. George urged swift passage of a new tax bill to curb inflation ahead of the elections, predicting continued inflation even with compulsory savings. London reports Britain seeking steel scrap amid U.S. shortages, enforcing strict cleanup of metal waste.
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Washington
Elmer, Davis
Office of War Information
Senate Small ‘Business Committee
Davis
Francis J. Kelley
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Senate House Conference Committee
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Wanted Hearin Help For All Ages At Cretney Drug
An advertisement seeks men and women hard of hearing to try the Online Home Method test promising safe simple assessment with a money back guarantee. It claims usage since 1895 and a million packages sold with ingredients in the US Pharmacopeia.
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Pharmacopeia
Cretney Drug
Markets and Livestock Notes From Kansas City and Chicago
Markets report from Merrill Lynch shows industrials and railroads up at midday. Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets detail hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep with varied price ranges and activity levels, including top hog and steer prices and conditions across regions.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenenr & Beane
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
AMA
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Taxi Fares Revised Under War Time Controls
The ration board outlined new taxi rate rules on a trial basis. It limited nonessential driving such as calls to honky tonks and transporting ladies of the evening, and confined operations to within corporate limits except for airport and Veterans' Hospital calls. Zone boundaries were defined as Zone 1 and Zone 2 within the city, with rates set to take effect the following day.
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Veterans’ Hospital
Lamar Street
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Philadelphia Street
Twelfth Avenue
Cargo Planes By Thousands
The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce said by end of 1943 army air force officers expect thousands of air transport command cargo planes. They noted air cargo fleets girdling the globe on four expanding sky routes and described air transport as a modern miracle of transportation with flights to Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, China, Russia, the British Isles, Egypt, India, and the South Pacific via South America.
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Washington
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
Army Air Force
Lair Transport Command
Army
Navy Air Transport Services
Australia
New Zealland
Alaska
China
Russia
British Isles
Iceland
Egypt
India
South Pacific
South America
USO Orchestra Adds Three More Instruments
The USO orchestra expands to seven pieces as Gladys M. Glenn lends a flute and a clarinet and W. W. Rusk donates a trombone for soldiers here. The group already includes a guitar, harmonies, snare drum, and piccolo type pipe. The new 35 mph speed limit also covers taxicabs and operators agree to an effective date set for tomorrow morning.
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U.S. O
Gladys M. Glenn
USO
W. W. Rusk
Jenkins
Ben Manning
Corporation Counsel
Commission
German Ship Is Torpedoed Off Dutch Coast
British light naval forces torpedoed and sank a medium German supply ship from a convoy intercepted off Terschelling. The admiralty said British losses were a motor gunboat with no heavy casualties. Brazil sharply increased purchases of United States products in the first year of the European war by about 66.6 percent.
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London
Terschelling
Admiralty
Brazil
United States
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Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Alleghany Lud Steel
Allis Chalmers
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Armour & Co
At& SF Wenee
Aviation Corp
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Deere & Co
Douglas Aircraft
Lal
Sears Roebuck
Socony Vacuum
Southern Pacific
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Ol of
California
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Stand Oil
New Jersey
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Texas Corporation
aTiy
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Tide Water Oil BN
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White Motor
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Woolworth
Alamein Front
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Taylor Street
St. Francis
Certain-feed Products Corportation Prime Contractor
Financial Industrial Fund
Wren
Taylor ST
Joe Jenkins
Tire Ration Board
Bill Boyce
Fillmore
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C. E. von Hoover
White & Kirk
Johnson's
Peaches
Cor del Monte
del Monte
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S.& H. Green
Globe
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