Willow Run Plant Faces Uncertain Postwar Future
The Willow Run plant built for B-24 bomber production near Detroit faces an uncertain peacetime future as war orders wind down.Officials say the remainder of B-24 production will finish by August 1 with no immediate plans for conversion, while Ford executives note the plant is expendable and plan to shift workers to other facilities. The project, once ridiculed and scrutinized, reached high output last year producing about 100 bombers weekly with no rejections, and employed up to 45,000 at peak, reshaping the local region yet never becoming a true city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David J Wilkie
Detroit
Willow Run
Army Air Forces
Henry Ford
Teen Run
Henry Ford iI
Ford Company
Ford
Truman Committee
Burlington Puts Glass Dome in Passenger Car
Chicago AP reports Burlington Route will place a streamlined passenger car with a glass dome in service next month. The dome provides panoramic views from 24 seats in a raised compartment with reinforced glass. if accepted by travelers, a fleet of such cars will enter regular service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Burlington
Their
Ralph Budd
Flicker Named Manager of Foreign Freight Traffic
I C Flicker, longtime Illinois Central railroad official, is appointed as head of foreign freight traffic with Chicago headquarters. The move, effective June 1, follows his three years as general agent in Milwaukee and earlier service as district agent at Waterloo.
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Monroe
Flicker
Illinois Central Railroad
Milwaukee
Chicago
Harry Sundberg
The
Chamber of Commerce
Waterloo
Linn County Conveyances and Mortgages May 18 24
Real estate and mortgage activity in Linn county shows 89 conveyances and 18 mortgages totaling 82805 for the week ending May 24. Comparison with last year records 82 conveyances and 36 mortgages totaling 133953.
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Linn County
Linn County Abstract Company
Supersonic wind tunnels shown at Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army officials unveil the largest known supersonic wind tunnels at Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland. The first test paid back the 2 million cost by saving production time and materials. The facility will test bombs bullets and aircraft speeds up to 1300 miles per hour with future plans to reach 3000 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Mason
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army
George G. Eddy
Aberdeen
Research and Development Center
Hunting Licenses and Bird Stamps Revenue Drops in 1943 44
The Fish and Wildlife Service reports 7,505,258 hunters bought licenses in the 1943 44 season, generating 13,547,152 for state coffers but a decline from the prior year. Pennsylvania led state revenue at 1,367,473, while Michigan and New York followed. Michigan issued the most licenses at 732,479 with New York and Pennsylvania close behind. Federal migratory bird stamps at 1.00 each were issued to 1,164,19 sportsmen during the period.
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Washington
INL
Fish and Wildlife Service
United States
Pennsylvania
Michigan
New York
Revenue Down From Previous Year by 215901
The reported figure shows sales declined by 215901 compared with the prior year, indicating a drop in overall revenue for the period. No further context on the products or market is provided in the fragment.
Cedar Rapids Building Permits List Job Details
A list of Cedar Rapids building permits shows numerous changes including remodels repairs and new garages with specified addresses and costs. Notable entries include Dr W A Mason 1021 1013 Third Avenue SE remodel dwelling $190 and Helen Romanowski 1060 Third Avenue SE remodel dwelling $600.
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W. A. Mason
Third Avenue
Dan Kucera
Seventeenth Avenue
Frank J. Teply
Sixteenth Avenue
John Peter Stemple
Sixth Street
William Schmidt
Eighth Street
Merle Burton
Thirty-first Street
O. C. Grumbholtz
Twelfth Street
A. C. Winne
Wes Svoboda
D Avenue
W. H. Clifford
Washington Avenue
Frank Kratoska
C Avenue
Joseph L. Williams
Cold Stream Avenue
W. Olson
C. Avenue
F. H. Felter
Twenty-second Avenue
Frank Snyder
First Avenue
Georgia Beall
B Avenue
Charles N. Cassady
Ely Avenue
Frank Blazek
Cedar Rapids Society of Tool Engineers Receives Charter
The Cedar Rapids chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers was granted a charter at a Roosevelt hotel banquet. About eighty attendees heard J F Plumb welcome members and a slate of acting officers was sworn in. National president C V Briner outlined the society’s growth as Cedar Rapids becomes the seventy first branch. Lloyd L Lee spoke on Planetary Milling.
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Cedar Rapids
American Society of Tool Engineers
Roosevelt Hotel
J. F. Plumb
Manufacturers’ Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
John Speck
Michael Fitzgerald
James Sealy
John Stark
Robert Hruska
C. V. Briner
Cleveland
Ohio
Briner
Lloyd L. Lee
Plan-O-Mill Corporation
Hazel Park
Mich
Stocks and Bonds of Interest in Eastern Iowa
Eastern Iowa markets show quotations as price ranges from recent trades. These figures are not firm bids or offers but indicate typical levels for stocks and bonds in the region.
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Iowa
New York Bond Review Gains After Merger Authorization
Activity in the bond market centers on New York with small advances as Gulf, Mobile and Ohio and Alton merger authorization supports prices. Chicago and Alton 3s rose about 1/8, extending Friday's gains amid the merger news.
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New York
API
Fesurs
Chicago
JCC
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Alton System
Wysor to Direct Control of Reich Steel Operations
R J Wysor former president of Republic Steel was named by the Allied control council to supervise Germany’s metallurgical operations. He will oversee Reich steel mills for control dismantling or removal to prevent war production. Dr Calvin B Hoover of Duke University will head the intelligence group and assist Brig Gen Draper.
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Parisapi
R. J. Wysor
Republic Steel Corporation
Allied Control Council
Germany
Reich
Wyser
U. S
Supreme Headquarters
Gen. Clay
Session on Contract Termination Thursday
Cedar Rapids war firm managers were told a session on termination of war contracts will be held on Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m. on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce building under the sponsors manufacturers bureau. Verne Marshall of the Iowa Semaphoring company will preside. Firms should advise the Chamber of their representatives.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
P.m
Manufacturers Bureau
Verne Marshall
Iowa Semaphoring Company
Iowa Checks Banner Year In Insurance
Iowa ends a banner insurance year with record net premium incomes totaling 339,122,022, up 8.3 million from 1943. Fraternal groups show the largest gain, while overall losses rose to 22542,348 as authorities credit wartime demand and higher policy counts for the rise in premiums across fire homeowners casualty auto accident health and life lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowene C. Byers
DES Moines
Oolsterne
Timent
Sams Panies
Life Firm
PHA
Dusieewn
SSS
Kip Insurance Companive
Lek
Insurance Department
Offic.a'a
Ukraine Civilian Losses Reported in War
Moscow reports from the Red Star official army organ that civilian losses in Ukraine run into the millions with 2.5 million stated as free and 1.3 million missing. The prewar population is cited as 40 million with asserted wartime casualties exceeding a claimed total.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Guants Cai Vladimir Mockafoy Sant Saturdas
Red Star
Germany
Fragmentary OCR Note on Local Transit and Prices
A garbled OCR snippet references transit or packing terms and prices with scattered numbers and names. The readable content includes fragments like dates, ages, and place names, but the overall meaning is unclear. The item appears to be a damaged brief or notice with no cohesive event or outcome.
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United Automobile Workers (Cio
Wayne County
Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor
Ypsilanti
Sexton
Air Forces
Union
Liberator
Wilsow Run
Witlow Run
Bygantic
Oeteh
Nemes
ASK
Hawkeye Lumber-Coal CO
I. C
Real Estate and Mortgage Reports
Edwin P. Hubble
Wilson Observatory
Levin Campbell
Army Ordnance
Our
Home Service Department
Illinois Gas
Cajamal Thane
TO & Mays Sland
NZS
WER
Soules
C. R
W. C. Pickard
Federal Housing Administration
Gazette
Pickard
Sven A. Hertel
First Ave. SE
Igers
Hatch-Brookman Lumber and Coal Company
Eighth Avenue
RIAL
Society For Tool Engineers
Central States
Elec
Towa
Elec Co
LaPlant-Choate
Link-Brit
Mattona ‘Oats
Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc
Common Quaker Oats Co
Quaker Oats Co
Rath Packing Co
United le & Rys Co
United Lt & Rys Co
United Us & Rys Co
United Lt & Ryn Co
N & Co Ji
W. Wilemdé& Co
Petereane
Collins Radio
Wenede
Mid-Continent Air Lines
Mason C. Waterloo
Ross
Knapp & CO
Merchants Net
DIAL
Russell F. Knape
Henry Gundoling
American Mutual Life Insurance CO
R. M. Threlkeld
Merchants Bark Bite
Daene
Ene Klinger
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