Push Button Planes to Fly You Tomorrow
NCA correspondent describes a future where a passenger boards a self-landing air taxi via a push button. The automatic flight controller handles takeoff, navigation, landing, and even weather corrections. Air force officials call it a major postwar aviation advance.
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New York
Kalamazoo
Mich
Army Air Forces
All Weather Flying Center
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Air Force
Transit Strike at Toledo Ends
Toledo bus and street car workers end a 10 day strike after AFL drivers accept a 12 cent an hour wage rise from a labor management committee and return to work at midnight. The committee’s proposal was approved by Community Traction officials. The union had pressed for 30 cent an hour raises. company offered no more than five cents.
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo
AFL
Toledo Labor Management Citizens Committee
Community Traction Company
Krakatoa Eruption Proves Devastating Losses
Report notes Krakatoa eruption caused massive casualties and property damage with an estimated 36 000 lives lost worldwide. Official counts vary as crews assess affected regions and shipping lanes disrupted by ash and tsunamis.
Parker urges higher teacher pay to keep great minds in education
Cedar Rapids new superintendent Clyde L. Parker told the Lions Club at the Roosevelt hotel that the nation’s greatness rests on moral ideals and fidelity to truths. He urged better salaries to attract and retain qualified teachers and warned of future brain drain to Illinois, praising local efforts to invest in youth through recreation and schools.
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Clyde L. Parker
Cedar Rapids
Lions Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Supt
Parker
Illinois
Mississippi River
Congress OKs $953 Million Flood Control Plan
Congress completed action on flood control legislation authorizing $953 million in projects including $300 million for the Missouri river basin. The bill moved to the White House for President Truman's signature.
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Congress
Washington
Missouri River
White House
Truman
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