Kaiser Urges Low Cost Medical Care for Workers
Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser urged industry to provide full medical service to all workers at minimal personal cost. Speaking at Crowell-Collier Publishing plant in Springfield, he noted first aid units exist but broader access to medical care is needed and financially feasible through industrial support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
Springfield
Ohio
INS
Henry J.aiser
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
OCD
Red Secret Service Grimly Efficient Outdoes Spy Network
Moscow dispatch notes the Russian secret service operates with high efficiency making it hard for enemy agents to function. The piece recalls German efforts at espionage and sabotage, including plans to infiltrate Red Army units and strike infrastructure, while praising the American press for its wartime reporting and urging continued role in postwar reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Davis
Moscow
INS
Russia
Davies
Germany
Hitler
Red Army
Gestapo
Bwistrov
Leningrad
Farm Hands Go Back to the Farm
Iowa war plant workers classified as 2-C must return to farms by March 1 or face reclassification. Some join Navy or refuse. many plants adapt with longer shifts or deferments. Leaders praise the wartime program though some farmers fear labor gaps while others face personal tensions at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
WMC
United States Employment Service
County Extension Office
Navy
Employment Service Office
U. S. Employment Service
Not Enough Sailors as Merchant Fleet Grows
The article notes a surge in American merchant shipping during wartime, with seamen rising from 49,440 to about 135,000, operating roughly 2,800 ships totaling seven to eight million tons. It highlights crew size trends, recruitment by the War Shipping Administration and manning organizations, and the need to ship millions more personnel and equipment overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
Emory S. Land
WSA
AMO
RMO
New York
Plan Subway Sans Noise Pandemonium
In a speculative piece by Richard Tompkins New York AP envisions a noiseless clean odorless well lighted air conditioned uncrowded subway car. designer Roger L Nowland of Norman Bel Geddes imagines ramps instead of steps sound proofing no windows but electric indicators and seating along one wall with sliding doors others hold packages first aid music ice water and a smoking lounge with telephones
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Tompkins
New York
B.M.T
New York City
Queens Plaza
Brooklyn
Roger L. Nowland
Norman Bel Geddes
Nowland
Newland
Rationing Guidelines and Stamp Validity Issued by Linn County Board
The notice outlines war rationing details including degree days to March 4 1944 and stamp validity for meat fish butter cheese fats oils milk and shoes with various stamps valid dates. It lists coupon values for sugar gallons tires and home canning as well as inspection deadlines and contact details for the Linn county war price and rationing board led by A. T. Pleune with office hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County War Price and Rationing Board
A. T. Pleune
American Building
First Avenue
Second Street
Eastern Iowa Stocks and Bonds Price Ranges Noting Holdings
A survey lists bid and ask ranges for various municipal utilities rail and industrial shares in eastern Iowa. It notes the figures reflect recent transactions rather than firm bids and offerings, with issuers including States Electric, Public Service, Interstate, Southern Utilities, and others, alongside utility and railway issues and university stadium notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elec. Co
Mherry-Burrell Co
Arenes Products Co
esees & terstate _ se
S Nm . Co
Nterstate Pr Po
Towa Public Service
Ova Sou Utilities
Southern Utilities
Adcuns Caines Ences
T. Es
Babes Aes
Iowa Southern Utilities Co
Iowa University Stadium
Choate Mis. Co
1813 & Ford Ltd. Inc
Ats Co
Rs Co
Uni Li
Ars
Trade Ban May Complicate Postwar Peace Efforts
William Fowler of the State Department warned that economic problems after the war would be harder to solve if prewar trade restrictions are reimposed. Speaking for the Citizens Conference on International Economic Union he urged removal of trade barriers as essential to lasting peace and global economic cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William Fowler
State Department
Office of Economic Affairs
Citizens Conference On International Economic Union
Fowler
Crisis in Rubber Passed Firestone Says in Broadcast
Firestone president Harvey S. Firestone Jr. says the rubber crisis has been licked and announces 850000 tons annual synthetic rubber capacity planned this year. He notes more natural rubber from Liberia Ceylon South America and other UN open areas will help but warns of the need for more machinery factory space and trained manpower to convert rubber into tires and products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady
N. Y
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Liberia
Ceylon
South America
United Nations
Firestone
Linn County Records February Show Big Jump in Conveyances
Linn county February totals set a record for the month with 301 conveyances compared to 234 in February 1943. Mortgages filed rose to 119 in February 1944 from 89 a year earlier, with the mortgage aggregate at 448,539.83 dollars versus 351,190 in 1943. From Feb 25 to Mar 2 there were 88 conveyances and 41 mortgages totaling 204,815.16 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Linn County Abstract Company
Bankers Life Assets Reach Record High in Des Moines
Bankers Life company of Des Moines reported assets of 306 million 845 thousand 812 dollars as of December 31 1943 up 23 million 253 thousand 156 dollars from the previous year. The gains mark the largest asset total in the companys history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Bankers Life Company of Des Moines
New York Group Buys Controlling Interest in National Pneumatic
Frank Campbell of New York announces a group he leads has purchased a controlling stake in National Pneumatic company of Rahway New Jersey, known for automatic door and signal equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rahway
N. J
Frank Campbell
New York
National Pneumatic Company
Coca Cola Earnings Report for 1943 Net Higher
The Coca Cola company reported 1943 net earnings of 23,726,222 dollars, or 5.93 dollars per share, up from 1942 at 21,467,445.83 dollars or 5.37 dollars per share. The figures were filed from Wilmington Delaware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington, del
Coca-Cola Company
Litigation Settled Between Lever Brothers and Procter Gamble
The patent dispute between Lever Brothers and Procter and Gamble has been amicably settled with a formal agreement reached. The settlement ends the litigation and finalizes terms between the two companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lever Brothers
Procter and Gamble Company
Grain Quotations From Chicago Market Report
Saturday prices and market notes for grain traded in Chicago as reported by Lamson Brothers and Company. H R Mowrey manages Cedar Rapids office from 503 Merchants National Bank building.
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Chicago
Lamson Brothers and Company
H. R. Mowrey
Cedar Rapids
Merchants National Bank
Bank Clearings Rise in Cedar Rapids Week
Bank clearings in Cedar Rapids exceeded last year by about half a million dollars. The week ended March 4 reported $2,681,534.82, up from $2,073,415.20 in the comparable 1943 week, with the February 26 total at $1,945,079.82.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Clearing House
Prices Steady on Cedar Rapids Hog Market
Cedar Rapids hog market closed Saturday with prices holding steady. Top bid for 200 to 300 pound good to choice hogs reached 13 dollars and 45 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Rasley New Manager of Yager's Shoe Department
Horace E. Rasley began duties as the new manager of the shoe department at Yager's Up stairs store located at 120 Third street SE. He succeeds Dale McMeeken who has purchased another business and moved away. Rasley brings over 30 years in the shoe trade and previously owned and ran a shop in Vinton for five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace E. Rasley
C Avenue NE
Yager
Third Street
Dale McMeeken
Rasley
Vinton
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American Red Cross
A. W. Daniels
Universal Engineering Corporation
G. O. Fletcher
Arthur Poe
Quaker Cats Company
James W. Bell
Linn County Red Cross War Fund
Floyd DuToit
Cedar Rapids Industrial Union Council
CIO
G. K. Strausser
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor
Red Cross
Red Secret Service Grimly Efficient
Danny Foe
America
Sig
Paree
Spie
Communist Party
Communist
Lunaev
Konnozavodchilk
Secret Service
T. Ugadobnik
I. T. Ugodobnik
Ussr
Baranov
Soloviev
Plan Subway
Free Oil
Ration Board
Bankers Life Company
Coca-Cola
C. R
E. CO & Sons
9Th Ave
3Rd St
Acre
Yager’s Shoe Department
Dempsey
Detmer
Sec
Lown Representatives
A. L. Augustine
George F. Martinek
Merchants Nations Bank
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