Century Engineering names Dunn treasurer as Lattner outlines 1946 plan
Century Engineering announces 1946 reconversion toward peacetime automatic heating and air conditioning. Production will focus on oil-fired burners water heaters boilers and furnaces with postwar tooling to expand capacity fivefold. New executives named including Keith R Dunn as treasurer and business manager and John Rosche as chief engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Century Engineering Corporation
E. J. Lattner
Century
Crane Company
Lattner
J. A. Lattner
M. D. McWilliams
Robert P. Nessler
Keith R.dunn
L. P. Davis
C. C. Thompson
John O Rosche
George B. Goodrich
Bernie E. Abney
R. Keith Gunsolus
Harry Julsgard
Nessler
Rosche
Cedar Rapids
Minneapolis- Honeywell Company
Minneapolis
The
Thermal Company
St. Paul
Central Machine Works
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Ilinois
A. M. Castle Company
Chicago
Steel Sales Corporation of
Cedar Rapids Schools Prepare Holiday Concerts
Cedar Rapids pupils plan Christmas programs this week at Johnson McKinley Roosevelt Wilson High. Johnson features a chorus and sextet with Morals and Moats. McKinley presents The Littlest Shepherd. Roosevelt hosts an evening of Christmas music. Wilson's program includes combined choruses, ensembles, and a string trio under Miss Thomann and Stanley Wesley Jr with Tabreaux and narrator Cecile Rukgaber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Johnson School
Gertrude Shoemaker
Johnson
Ann Shuttleworth
Barbara Munger
Mark
Max Daehler
Charlotte Condon
Marjorie Lee Morningstar
Marilyn Moats
McKinley
Roosevelt
Roosevelt School
Margaret Porter Kamradt
Schubert
Wilson High School
Gladys Thomann
Stanley Wesley, Jr
Tabreaux
Cecile Rukgaber
Machinists Hold State Conference Meet With Harvey W. Brown
Harvey W. Brown of Washington D C president of the International Association of Machinists will address the Iowa state conference at the I C B J hall Cedar Rapids Sunday at 130 pm Delegates from IAM chapters across the state will attend Admission by due books only Brown comes from Springfield Ill where he spoke at the Illinois conference He also addressed 9000 Missouri conference members in St Louis and is expected to discuss reconversion to peacetime economy and actions from the national conference in New York Nov 29 to Dec 9
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Harvey W. Brown
Washington, D. C
International Association of Machinists
Iowa State
Brown
Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Missouri
St. Louis
Samuelson
New York
I.A.M
Nimitz Named Chief of Naval Operations in Brief Speech
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz officially replaced Admiral Ernest J. King as chief of naval operations at the Navy Department. Amid photographers' flashes he stated I have just taken on a great responsibility I will do my utmost to meet it.
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Washington
INS
Chester W. Nimitz
Ernest J. King
Naval Operations
Nimitz
Navy Department
Gifts for Yanks Drive Over Top
The Gifts for the Yanks campaign in Cedar Rapids by the American Legion and auxiliary surpassed expectations with 100 gift packages prepared for Schick hospital service members, exceeding the 72 package goal. The holiday phone-call fund drive neared its $5,000 target with over $3,500 raised, and contributions may still be dropped at the Legion Town club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion and Auxiliary
Cedar Rapids
Sam Cohen
Schick Hospital
Legion Town Club
W. D. Smith
Earl A. Dodge
A. E. Schoendelen
Auxiliary
Skipper Slain Aboard Liberty Ship Arthur L. Lewis
Captain Austin Fithian was shot and killed aboard the Arthur L. Lewis in the Pacific. Five crewmen are held by the U S Navy in the Admiralty Islands as the investigation unfolds. Mrs. Fithian disclosed the death, saying she learned of it on Tuesday.
War Ship ping Admin Letter to Seas Shipping on Lewis
A terse message from the War Ship ping administration to Seas Shipping of New York, operator of the Lewis for WSA, provides no explanation for a recent slaying. The missive focuses on procedural matters rather than details of the incident.
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War Shipping Administration
The
Seas Shipping Company of New York
WSA
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Keith R. Dunn
Century Engineering
Names Executives
Army Air Forces
Chrysler Corporation
Stern, Wampler, and Company of
Dunn
McGladrey, Hansen, Dunn and Company
Nature
Dr. Pflughaup
D.C
Mullin
Montgomery
Duncan Phyfe
Charles
London
Lattice
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