Polish Munitions Expert Starts Cedar Rapids Project
Casimir Kranc and his brother Michael relocate to Cedar Rapids to launch Century Engineering fuse production for aerial bombs. The Kranc family, longtime Polish industrialists, escape Europe via Brazil and New York, with Casimir settling as a legal American citizen and planning postwar return to rebuild Polish industry.
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Cedar Rapids
Century Engineering Company
Casimir Krane
Krantz
Century Company
Mr. Krane
Mr. Kranc
Kranc
Michael
Casimir
France
Kranc and Lempicki Company
Leon Kranc
Warsaw
Les Decolletages Commentry Sa
New York
Rio de Janeiro
Stanislaw Rubinsztajn
Rio
Century Project
Casimir Kranc
Felicia Lilpop
Arthur Rodzinski
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Poland
Krancs
Karol
Europe
Krane
Russia
Michael Krane
South America
Dakar
French
Morocco
America
Personal Opinion on Alumni Support and Postwar Funding
The author praises Chancellor Hancher's leadership and alumni relations at the university. He predicts growth under administration and notes the football outlook with Eddie Anderson. He supports postwar tuition funding for veterans and asks why the writer pursued law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cellent
Hancher
Buy Defense Stamps and Bonds to Support the War
A exhortation urges citizens to purchase defense stamps and bonds as their wartime contribution. It stresses buying with every penny to aid the home front effort and strengthen national defense.
Trinity Lutheran to Hold Good Friday Service at Paramount
For the thirteenth consecutive year Trinity Lutheran will stage its Good Friday service at the Paramount theater starting at 12 noon on Friday April 3. The event, led by Rev. P L Bornhoeft, features soloist Eldred Gerhold and organist John A Jaeger, with a committee including Arth ur Euken and William Kulhavy. Proceeds support Lutheran Army and Navy commission service members. a Easter Cross bookmark will be given to attendees.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Paramount Theater
P. L. Bornhoeft
Trinity
Mr. Bornhoeft
Eldred Gerhold
Pearl Curran
John A Jaeger
Arthur
Walter Euken
William Kulhavy
Victor Bryant
M. H. Luther
Henry
Lutheran Church
Notes to Coeds on Marriages in War
Los Angeles AP describes USC wartime guidance for coeds from Dr Sara Stinchfield-Hawk. Advice cautions against glamorizing uniforms, warns against noble sacrifice myths, urges knowing a partner beyond wartime roles, and notes widowhood risks as most men won’t support other men’s children.
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Los Angeles
Sara Stinchfield-Hawk
University of Southern California
Wilson High Hosts Urbana and Olin Play Festival
About 400 attended the one act play festival at Wilson high school auditorium hosted by the Wilson Drama Guild with participants from Olin and Urbana. Prof Kent Andrews of Coe college reviewed the plays while crews and committees were led by named students and the school orchestra provided music.
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Wilson High School
Wilson Drama Guild
Olin
Urbana
Kent Andrews
Coe College
Chris Sergel
Ruth M. Ganfield
Max Eskildson
Wanda Jeanne Glick
Donald Bodkins
Marjorie Schellin
Dale Murfield
Great Man
Irene Jean Crandall
Art Neumann
Della Beyer
Merle Hopker
Elmer O’shannon
Memory School Attendee Mixes Up Mayor at Lunch
John O Keefe and E M Cox attended a memory training school in Kansas City. Mayor John B Gage spoke at lunch but was introduced by the wrong name. Afterward Cox misplaced his car and could not recall where he left it.
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Kansas City
John O'Keefe
E. M. Cox
John B. Gage
O'Keefe
Cox
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St. Petersburg
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Start No. 3
Les Decolletages de Commentry Sa
Krane Lempicki Company
Romania
Italy
United States
Frances
Marseilles
French West Africa
U.S
Casablanca
French Morocco
Americas
Gray
Iowa
Iowa State Bar Association
Supreme Court
Business Men’s Club
Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce
Time
Life
NEW
Denicron Fabrice
Montgomery Ward
2Nd Street
DIAL
Eddie Anderson
L. Bornhoeft
Lipton
del Monte
S&w
van Camp
IPI
Rocfries
Wilson High
Urbana, Olin
Kid
John Kirkpatrick
Pierre A. Tracy
Clifford Johnson
Hommy Omar
Carroll Filson
Lillian Dusek
Jacquie Bachman
Betty Lou Soukup
Velma Stehlik
Mary Berger
Wilma Wilson
Helen Rank
Jovonne Wear
Betty Sedenka
Laureen Bonham
Dale Krumm
Dwayne Morey
Erick Sheronick
Dean St. Germaine
Dorothy Andresen
Betty Konigsmark
Alan W. Richardson
Ushers Club
Newman
Plaza
Enka Ray
Nelly Don
Nellt Don Headquarters
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