Postwar Plans Shape Logan Hocking County Industry
Logan and Hocking County business leaders map postwar growth as Allied victory rises. They expect a postwar boom driven by savings and demand for commodities, with new machinery at Logan furniture plants and expanded shoe production under consideratio n. The Clear Fork Valley Lake project and coal use bills attract federal attention, while 1943 output set a strong base despite labor shortages and wartime disruption.
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Ing
Logan
Hocking County
Clear Fork Valley Lake
Ball School
Midway
Ohio
Hocking Parks
Walter E. Brehm
Hocking
Sunday Creek
Brehm
Roosevelt
H. C. Godman Shoe Co
Marvin Kuhn
Kuhn
United Shoeworkers of America Local 153
CSO
United States
Hocking Valley Brick Co
Logan Pottery Co
Ross Adcock
Adcock
Logan Retail Merchants Association
Sun Glow Industries, Inc
Illinois
Pennsylvania
New York
Henry Dague
Weather keeps aging lawyers indoors in Knoxville scene
In Knoxville Tennessee on a raw day three veteran lawyers aged 85 81 and 88 were seen in a downtown law office and street corner. Each joked about the others going outside in the rain while remarking on the wintry weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
John W. Green
James A. Fowler
Hu Barton Lindsay
Man Scribbles Burley Sale Notes At Home
Knoxville report notes tobacco supervisor Ed Johnston Jr. of Rocky Mount North Carolina writes home on burley sale tickets. The daily tobacco reaches his home office where his father reads the notes as he inspects each bundle of tobacco.
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Burley
Knoxville
Tenn
Ed Johnston, Jr
Rocky Mount
N. C
Let George Do It Athens County We Solve World Problems
Dowler urges Athens County residents to focus on local economic wellbeing and community responsibility rather than solving distant world problems. He calls for widespread brain power, local meetings, and increased bond buying to bolster national defense and the region's economy.
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F. FE. Dowler Sec’'y
Athens Co. Industrial Asso
George
Athens County
United States
Washington
Joe Stalin
Russia
Frankin D. Roosevelt
Polly
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Jack Benny
Bob Hope
100 Octane Gasoline’s Hidden War Role Revealed
Washington reports that 100-octane gasoline, forged from iso-octane and tetraethyl lead, powered Allied aircraft and possibly altered the war’s balance. Production surged after Pearl Harbor, with engineers developing methods to extract higher octane yields from crude oil.
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Washington
Germany
Army
Pearl Harbor
Dr. Edgar
Edgar
Army Dog and Master Are To Get Discharges
Brigham Utah AP A fox terrier named Oahu and Pvt Rudolph Slim Kropaczek of Rahway New Jersey will receive honorable discharges from Bushnell General Hospital near Brigham. Oahu served as the company mascot from Canton Island and survived bombers a sea crash and a rescue by a destroyer after a plane engine failure.
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Brigham, Utah
Oahu
Bushnell General Hospital
Brigham
Pvt
Rudolph
Slim” Kropaczek
Rahway
N. J
Kropaczek
Canton Island
Australia
Slim
Moonshine Ration Sparks Sugar for Bees in Chattanooga
A Chattanooga farmer applied for sugar to feed his bees during rationing. His bees had fed on mash from illegal moonshine stills, but the supply dried up. The farmer received the sugar.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohi Day
Jay
Paul Lunsford
Messenger
United Furniture Worker Local
Dague
O. J. Meyer
E. K. Sheffield
Logan Clay Products Co
Barton Hall
James McNamee
Chesapeake and Ohio
Pomeroy
Round House
London
Post Office
Dowler
Herman R. Allen
Geoffrey Lloyd
Great Britain
Battle of
Britain
Graham Edgar
Detroit
O Costly
Nour
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Quick's
W. Union St
Athens, Ohio
A. S. Department
Commodities Labor Index
Office of Price Administration
Roy E. Hawk & Co
Cline Bidg
U. S
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