Trio Survives 31 Days Afloat After Plane Sinks at Sea
Harold F. Dixon and two Navy shipmates recounts their 31 day ordeal afloat in a rubber raft after a scout bomber went down on January 16 1942 in the South Pacific. They endured hunger seas and cold before reaching a remote atoll.
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Harold Dixon
Tony Pastula
Gene Aldrich
mid-Pacific
South Pacific
Robert Trumbull
Harold F. Dixon
U.S.N
Gene Alfrich
Sunner
U. S. Navy
Pastula
Aldrich
Tony
Panama
Gene
Navy
Naval Museum
Annapolis
Goodyear
Advice From Mary Manners
Dear Miss Manners answers advise on New Projects and dating while a boyfriend works away. The reader seeks patience, fidelity, and how to handle former lovers. The column suggests dating others to gauge feelings and avoid dullness until reunion.
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Miss Manners
D.L
Labor unions pledge united push for scrap drive
The CIO and AFL with railway Brotherhoods pledge full cooperation in the scrap salvage program. They send letters urging active participation from all unions and local committees and announce a radio broadcast with top labor leaders to mobilize support before winter.
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Washington
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor and Railway Brotherhoods
AFL
William Green
CIO
Phillip Murray
J. G. Luhrsen
Railway Labor Executives Association
Wendell Lund
War Production Board
Labor Production Division
Lund
Luhrsen
Railway Labor
Green
Murray
Roosevelt
Liability Rate Cut in Seaboard Gas Ration States
New York AP report notes a recommended automatic 20 percent cut for auto bodily injury liability for A ration book holders and a 10 percent cut for B and C card holders. The reductions apply in eastern states where Seaboard rationing exists and take effect October 1 retroactive to policies dated July 22.
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Seaboard
New York
National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
Mutual Casualty Insurance Rating Bureau
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