Keenan urges material control for industrial build growth
In a United Press interview Keenan, industrial construction expediter, called for limiting private and public building until the plant program progresses. He noted shortages of bathtubs tiles bricks gypsum board and shingles and predicted $800 million in industrial construction spend this quarter rising to $1.7 billion next year with full employment in building trades continuing and more workers freeing from military service.
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United Press
Keenan
J. A. Krug
Seabees
Army Engineers
Striking Shipyard Workers Will Return To Work Monday
The Beaumont Enterprise reports that about 15 000 workers at the Consolidated Steel ship yard in Orange Texas will resume operations Monday after an arbitration agreement between the company and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFL. The Marine Pipe Fitters Local No. 414 had agreed to return, but the electrical union rejected the settlement, leaving many workers at the gates.
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Beaumont
Beaumont Enterprise
Navy Shipyard
Consolidated Steel Corporation
Orange
Tex
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
AFL
Local No. 414
Electrical
First Born Christian Daughter of New York Colony
Sarah Rapaelje born in 1665 in New York is identified as the first born Christian daughter in the colony.
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Sarah Rapaelje
New York
Colony
Prisoners Liberated List of American POWs in Singapore
American prisoners of war in Singapore include Sgt. Clayton Robert Grodon and many others with hometowns listed such as Fort Worth Jefferson Jefferson City and Houston. The report notes partial addresses and varies by name with several unavailables. A second item states Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases in Wyoming in the first half of this year were half those reported in 1944.
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Singapore
Clayton Robert Grodon
Fort Worth
Vinson Gunter Henderson
Jefferson
Frank Hiza
Ben Clarence Keith, Jr
Howard Samuel Robbins
Ray Franklin
Robinson
Chico
Williams J. Robinson
Henderson
Robert C. Rushing
Marble Falls
Richard Elander Shields
Abilene
Rocky Mountain
Wyoming State Health Department
Crozier Asked To Clear Stand On Unemployment Benefits
Dallas action prompts Crozier of Austin to state his position after W A Leigh of the Dallas Tarrant County Industrial Union Council wired him. The inquiry follows testimony in Washington by Claude A Williams, Crozier’s predecessor, who told the House Ways and Means Committee that men would be returned to work more quickly.
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Dallas
Harry B. Crozier
Austin
Texas Unemployment Commission
W. A. Leigh
Dallas-Tarrant County Industrial Union Council
CIC
Leigh
Crozier
Washington
Claude A. Williams
Longview
Texas Commission
Williams
House
Ways and Means Committee
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War Production Board
Marie Earle
Herbert Drug
Prescription
Amarillo
Southern Comfort Corp
Saint Louis, MO
Bor
Tze
Carpenters
Ontgomery Ward
Town Park
Robert Irwin Martin
Houston
W. F. Matthews
Wingate
Everett Wilbur Miller
Herbert Ray Morris
Cisco
Adolphus Morrow
Wichita
Seaman Arthur Ray Moss
Ueno Ta Atheidh
Empar Coust
China
West Amarillo
Tennessee
America
John W. Darby
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