Dream city for supersonic research planned in Pacific Northwest
Sen. Mitchell reveals army air forces plans for a half billion dollar supersonic airplane research center on a 100 square mile site in the Grand Coulee region of Washington. The project would use five wind tunnels to test full sized aircraft under stratospheric conditions and require vast electrical power from Columbia river dam projects. Approval from War Department Budget Bureau and Congress needed before starting.
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Washington
Sen. Mitchell
D-Wash
Army Air Forces
Sen
Cordon
R-Ore
Grand Coulee
Columbia River
Oregon
National Advisory Council On Aeronautics
Air Forces
Pacific Northwest
Mitchell
War Symington
Army Aeronautics
Ange
Germany
Army
War Department
Budget Bureau
Congress
Senate
Foster Creek
McNary
Bonneville
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Sharply Boosted Social Security Benefits Sought
Labor Secretary Schwellenbach urged Congress to raise Social Security retirement benefits significantly. He called for increasing the minimum at 65 from 10 to 20 dollars and the maximum from 85 to 120 dollars, and expanding coverage to 20 million more workers including farmers and self employed. He also proposed adding disability benefits, aiding veterans, and lowering the wife eligibility age from 65 to 60.
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Washington
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Dream Home Shack War Bride Seeks Divorce in New York
Eve lyn Caroline Poston a 16 year old British war bride left her North Carolina husband a former Eighth Air Force soldier after a brief stay in Salisbury. She told police she wants a divorce and has gone to New York with plans to stay with her aunt in Bliss. The British consulate is arranging travel.
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New York
Evelyn Caroline Poston
United States
North Carolina
Emeline Shisler
Bliss
N. Y
Gremace
Eighth Air Force
Poston
Giaiasionsi
England
Salisbury
Aunt Welcomes War Bride to Bliss Farm Home
Mrs Eme line Shisler and her husband Frank assume responsibility for Evelyn Poston the 16 year old British war bride and offer her a permanent home at their farm in Bliss New York. She plans to travel from New York City by bus for the meeting and to decide her future.
Mausolus Mausoleum Name Origin
The term mausoleum comes from King Mausolus, after whom a monument was built following his death in 353 B.C. by his wife Queen Artemisia.
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Mausolus
Artemisia
War Bride Arrives Then Leaves With Another Man
A British bride, Mary Cynthia Walker Clark, arrived in the U S aboard the Queen Mary and left her husband of three days for Clayton Cilbreth of Clayville New York. Clark met Cilbreth in Utica after leaving New York and vanished Saturday night, leaving a note saying she loved another boy.
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Utica
N. Y
William Clark
United States
Mary Cynthia Walker Clark
Snibson
England
Clark
New York
Clayton Cilbreth
Clayville
Cilbreth
Mary
Bill
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