Capital City Growth Tied to Texas Industry Expansion
The 1942 to 1944 wartime boom set the stage for Texas industrial growth, with the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association noting 4300 new corporations formed in 1947 and over 1800 new manufacturing plants built. Texas manufactured products have doubled since 1940, and the Gulf area hosts most of the nation's synthetic chemical facilities with investment estimates between 500 million and 1 billion dollars.
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Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
Texas
Great Southwest
Mid-Continent
Texas Gulf
The
Association
Texas Industry Pushes Industrialization Amid Tax Fight
A Texas Governor Jester led a broad industrialization push with A&M College and UT aimed at reducing imports. A first report from 1947 shows Texas firms bought 220 million dollars of non Texas made materials, led by steel pipe. Two thirds of imports came from six states. The program seeks to boost Texas manufacturing, lower costs and spur investments with Texas capital and labor.
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Texas
Jester
A&m College
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
New York
Missouri
California
Texas A&m College
University of Texas, Texas Tech
Texas Employment Commission
Topsy
Radio Humor and Town Pride Reflected in Stated Tales
The passage humorously notes random contestant selection and a farmer reporting a $30,000 tax refund. It laments the risk of communists halting vital industries, questions if people will sleep again, and ends with a quip about a rich old bachelor always feeling chased.
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Spirit of Town
America
Europe
Turkey Day and One More Big Game in Texas
The essay discusses the annual Longhorn Aggie football rivalry at Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, on Thanksgiving Day. It weighs moving the game to Saturday for better travel and attendance, noting potential 50 000 plus crowds and over 100000 dollars in gate receipts, and argues the tradition remains strong despite scheduling debates.
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Austin
Memorial Stadium
Texas
University of Texas
Questions and Answers in a wartime quiz format
A composite Q A set covers topics from first use of a woman secretary to Christmas mail deadlines and a giant tree frog near Key West It notes Benjamin Harrison as first to employ a secretary and Alice B Sanger as a stenographer It cites postal timelines for Christmas packages sent to Europe and air mail by December It explains how a giant tree frog may have reached Florida via hurricane or ships and gives its size The piece also asks about pre Columbian Latin American cities and explains Spanish pieces of eight It concludes with an atomic bomb damage estimate within 3 miles of detonation
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A. Merriman Smith
Benjamin Harrison
Alice B. Sanger
Harrison
Europe
Key West
Florida
America
Mexico City
Cuzco
Peru
Quito
Ecuador
Air Force of
United States
Radford
Air Force
Russia
Asia
Senators Ready To Open Fire on Forrestal
Washington report details friction over military unification and Navy Air Force rivalry. Key figures include Kurt Fischer in the Russian zone, Forrestal as Defense head, and Admiral Radford defending naval aviation against Air Force plans. Leaked letter prompts Forrestal probe into a press leak.
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Forrestal
Washington
Berlin
Kurt Fischer
James V. Forrestal
National Defense
Navy
Air Force
Congress
Key West
Newport
R. I
Ferdinand Eberstadt
Herbert Hoover
Eberstadt
Dewey
Brown
Air Symington
The
Bell Syndicate Inc
Eisenhower presidential candidacy and electoral trivia
The column ponders if Eisenhower would have run as a Republican or Democrat and recalls moments from his career. It notes publishers fees for Crusade in Europe, Truman meeting in Germany, Doyle’s quip affecting Bridges, and facts about the Electoral College and presidents born in Virginia and the West.
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L Eisenhower
Roy Roberts
Kansas City
Ske
Ike
Eisenhower
Europe
N. Y. Herald Tribune
Columbia Univ
Nichoals Murray Butler
Landon
Germany
Pres. Truman
Bradley
Jim Doyle
Landon—Bridges
Doyle
Bridges
Landon-Bridges
New York
Pennsyvania
Wilson
Madison
Washington
Ohio
Virginia
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Austin American
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Chicago
Victor Riesel
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Gold Coast
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Screen Writers Guild
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Seaton
Art
Arthur
US Army
Department of the Army
George Creel
Omar Bradley
Jim Roosevelt
AFL
State Department
John Lewis
Henry Wallace
CIO
Dixie
South America
Peron
Rio Grande
Mike Quill
Midwest
Thurmond
Lewis
Truman
Cincinnati
Netherlands Plaza Hotel
Secret Service
Walter Reuther
Durham
N. C
Duke Memorial Hospital
Reuther
Indiana
George Addes
CIO Auto Workers
Detroit
Reuther Boys
Addes
West Side
CIO Transport Workers Union
TWU
Teamsters
Carpenters
Restaurant Workers
Electrical Workers
Ladies Garment Workers
John L. Lewis
Rhode Island
Dayton, Ohio
New York Post Corp
University and
College Station
Longhorns
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Mary
Jesus
Wmerny
Drew Pearson
Fischer
Kremlin
Communist Party
House of Representatives
Connecticut
New Jersey
Rains
Alabama
Brooks
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South Carolina
Lea
Kansas
Wisconsin
Admiral
A. W. Radford
Naval Operations
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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