Willkie Tours Azores Island Horta Amid Storm
1940 Republican candidate Wendell L. Willkie carried the 20 000 resident Azores port of Horta during a 35 mph gale that paused his London-bound trip. He toured farms asking farmers about hogs and corn, joked about Indiana, and played table tennis and rummy with locals.
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Horta
Azores
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
London
Atlantic
Portugal
Willkie
Mark Twain
Indiana
White Lodge opens with Coca Cola girl guest
City briefs note the formal opening of the White Lodge with the Coca Cola girl as special guest and favors for all. Dick Kisinger is listed as manager in an advertisement. Two Iowa sisters travel to California after a sister's death, visiting relatives in Santa Monica and Long Beach. A Knights of Pythias district deputy spoke on fraternalism at a North English gathering with local lodges named.
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White Lodge
Coca-Cola Girl
Dick Kisinger
Joseph Dvorak
D Street
Wendy Clark
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Long Beach
Calif
Anna Astell
Dvorak
Dilask
Santa Monica
Charles Smith
Cedar Rapids
Rose Smeaton
F. D. Sheppard
Knights of Pythias
Iowa County Association of Pythians
North English
Williamsburg
Marengo
WMT
Fulton Lewis
WGN
Preston Bradley Wiui
KFJIB
Sports Review
John W. Vandercook
KFJB
Little Tin
Herne News
Kate Smith
Lew Loyal
Wsui
Ted Fio Rito
Orch
Wsuui
Elmer Davis
Johnnny
Gabriel Heatter
Everyman’s
Raymond Gram Swinz
Wines of Destiny
Dick Jurgens
Arch
al Pearce
Sherlock Holmes
Bie Town
Art Kassel
Chicago
Tommy Dorsey
Lawrence Welk
Dick Jureens
Lou Breese
Glen Gray
Vaughn Monroe
Dean _ Hudson
Bob Knicht
Eddie Duchin
Midnicht
Bar Herbeck
Griff Williams
TGR Gond
Oss
WOIL
Owenes
WHO
WOI
Herne
Neve
Happy Hank
KWLC
Morning Chapel
Prairie Melodies
KPJB
Sui—Musical Miniatures
Lew White
Victor H. Lindishi
Morning Melodies
Lincoln Hishwas
Troubadors
Betty Wells
Wsui—State Teachers Assoc
Who—Federation of Women's Clubs
Luther League
Ed McConnell
Country Journal
WoOlf
Eastman School of Mt
KEJB
Waterloo Woman's Club
WGON
Alice Blue
Ralph Ginsburgh
Agricultural Conservation
Sonzfollows
Dale Ellsworth
The
Ranch Hands
WNT
Iowa
America
New England
WMI
Walter Flanders
Looking Glass
Kwlco—Masterworks
National Guard
Meadowbrook
Miami Beach
Bos
Edna O'Dell
Jacques Jolas
Symphony Orch
Dick Shettons
Bobby Byrne
Tea Time Melodies
Curtis Mic Institute
Voice of Playground
Dick Kuhn
KFEJB
Pappy
Bore
Charlie Spivak
Wmt—World Today
Henry Cincone
Scott and
Tufts
Church Leaders Reelect Five Men to Mission Board
Representatives and pastors of city churches met at Sunshine Mission Thursday night and reelected five men to the mission board amid ongoing discussions on outreach and stewardship.
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Sunshine Mission
Army Vacancies For Negroes Opened In Rolla
Openings for 37 Negroes in the army corps area service command quartermaster truck unit at Rolla Missouri were announced by army recruiting headquarters. Applicants are urged to call immediately as quotas have been filled before enlistment papers could be sent. Trades sought include truck drivers mechanics plumbers electricians and cooks among others.
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Army Corps Area Service Command
Rolla
Army
Nude paintings stun ex governor in St Petersburg
Loren D. Dickinson, Michigan's octogenarian ex governor, visiting St Petersburg for his first vacation in over 80 years, wandered art galleries and departed in high indignation over nude paintings on display. The incident occurred as he toured galleries during his visit.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Ins
Loren D. Dickinson
Michigan
Weather Outlook for Upper Mississippi Valley and Local Notices
Forecast calls for much below normal temperatures with severe cold spreading Saturday and Saturday night. Light to moderate precipitation occurs early and late in the period. Also includes a local church notice of December and January celebrations and a court notice appointing Ray S. Knight as executor for Fred W Martin's Linn County estate with filing and payment instructions.
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Mississippi Valley
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Great Lakes
Alburnett
Christian Church
Elmer Moore
Herman Koch
Clarence Stahly
Wendell Moore
Mabel Hendryx
Yvonne Miller
Clarence Stahls
Frank Schantz
William Wilson
Eugene Msull
Lester Miller
Carl R McCailey
Leonard Wilson
Lewis Schantz
Henry Peter
Harry Wenger
Dick Hendryx
Lester Maller
C. R. McCalley
State of Iowa
Linn
Fred W Martin
Linn County
Censor Talk Sparks Debate Over Egyptian Nude Portrait
In a discussion on artworks, Alexander Brooks criticizes a nude Egyptian figure in his "Walking Figure" as immoral and calls for prohibition of such imagery. The remark highlights ongoing tensions between artistic expression and moral standards.
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Alexander Brooks
United Light and Power Proposes Three Plans to Simplify System
United Light and Power submitted three SEC plans to simplify its 400 million dollar utilities system under the holding company act. Plans include dissolution of United Light and Power, elimination of United Light and Railways, and elimination of Continental Gas and Electric and American Light and Traction. The dissolution involves transferring several subsidiaries to a new Illinois firm, likely Peoples Light and Power, and cash sales of others, plus asset swaps with United Light and Railways. Hearing by the commission continued to Feb 24 for meetings between company officials and SEC staff.
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Washington
United Light and Power Company
Securities Exchange Commission
SEC
Parks Commissioner Plans Nye Park Upgrade with Equipment
Parks Commissioner Ed Stefan announces improvements to Nye Park at Fourteenth Avenue and Eleventh Street SE. The small vegetable plot will be filled in and neighborhood equipment installed for public use.
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Ed Stefan
Nye Park
Fourteenth Avenue
Eleventh Street
Understanding the aluminum bottleneck in wartime production
Washington explains a defense program complexity with a key example: aluminum. A shortage of sheet machinery to produce aluminum sheet for planes now delays aircraft output. Four months pass from finished sheet to completed plane, with fixes expected by April and full defense demands met by next December.
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Daily News
Labor
Defense Commission
Production Peak Delays Hit Aircraft and Auto Plants
The article notes production will not reach satisfactory levels for a year and peak not before eighteen months. It cites the Ford-Isis plant starting engine work in March with limited machinery, delaying large output until year end, highlighting industry cooperation and Knudsen’s knowledge.
Aircraft Engine Contracts and Production Timelines
A review of major aviation engine contracts shows Chrysler Hiss tank plant signed for 54 million last August with production not starting until next August. Allison engine contract signed December aims at 700,000 units. GM has run Allison as an experimental project since 1929 and now delivers 350 engines monthly, with target 1,000 by November. Studebaker holds 379 million contract from January for aircraft engines, Buick 24 million Pratt and Whitney engines with first production after 12 months, Packard 562 million Rolls Royce engine contract signed in August.
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Chrysler
Allison
General Motors
Studebaker
Buick
Pratt and Whitney
Packard
Rolls Royce
Production Promise Tied to June Start
Initial production was promised for June though communication from the defense commission has been limited. Trade insiders say the plan is well known in industry circles despite scarce official detail.
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The
Defense Commission
Chicago U Faculty Group Backs Lease Bill
About 125 University of Chicago faculty members urged immediate enactment of the lend-lease bill. The statement came hours before President Roosevelt spoke in a radio address on foreign policy and threats from Nazi Germany.
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Chicago U
Chicago
University of Chicago
Roosevelt
Hitler
Rohe Maynard Hutchins
Univer
Mortimer Acier
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Eddie Gilmore
City Briefs
Mission Board
Campbell's Soups
Sylvia Sidney
Luther Adler
Releereele
Pearce
Sion Board
J I Merritt
First Avenue
Pletne
Bever Avenue
George Vavra
Ellis Boulevard
O.A Prather
B Avenue
Carl Hendrickson
Blake Boulevard
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Sixteenth Street
Mount Vernon Road
Thirty-third
Thirty-fourth Street
Twelfth Street
Third Avenue
Twenty Fifth
Twenty-sixth
Link Belt
Link Belt Company
Link Belt Speeder Company
Hayes Parsons
Larry Spillan
David W. Lehti
Montrose Hotel
Urbana
Lola Burrell
Salem
Ore
Methodist Church
Lola Lucille Burrell
Fred W
Ida Berry Burrell
Cornell College
Tipton
Algona
Columbia University
Book House For Children
Christian Scientist Church
Orin K
Eugene
Max
Waterloo
Ammon Lease
Wesley, Ia
Myrna Burrell
Urana
Wat
Galbraith
NEA Service. Inc. TM. Reg
U.S
Gree
Asi
Cedar Rapid
Ccsee
Amesee
Cccasaeeer
Towa City
Des Moines
Vuseracee
Marshalltown Cosveceens
Decorah
Brlor
Dickinson
Pina Toles
Voice of
Yar Orchestra
WSOI
FJB
Weather Outlook
Ray S. Knight
POST
Blackstone Washers
Barnett
First Street
Ashers
United Light and Power
Haters
UITE
Ione
Montgomery Ward
Second Street
RIAL
Paul Matton
Cpt
SELLE
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Ain Waves
Jem
RCA Victor Radio
Checker Electric Supply, Inc
RCA
South First Street
DIAL
Muri
Ayn
Funique
RCV AG
Vietor
Euch
Ruary
Tratelstrong
Straws Patents
Browns
Rilarks
Woven's and
GIRLS
Taweels
Cedar Rapids’ Bargain Shoe Center
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