Project Transition aims to ready veterans for civilian work
The Defense program pairs counseling and job training with industry involvement across 218 bases. Over 50 major firms and many small businesses provide instructors and on the job training, aiming to place graduates with sponsoring companies. About half of trainees are expected to gain employment in related company products.
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U. S
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
General Motors
General Electric
Dusty $25 Million Flying Boat Hangs Over Long Beach
Howard Hughes’s HK-1 Hercules flying boat, stored since 1947, remains in Long Beach in a 20 story hangar. It has drawn $36,000 yearly rent, with potential relocation after September 1972, as city officials weigh turning the site into a world trade center and airplane museum.
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Howard Hughes
Hughes
Long Beach
Calif
Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners
Mr. Hughes
Navy's 1961 procedures tagged obsolete in secret report
A classified Pentagon study on NAVSHIPS criticizes ten year old contingency plans, outdated emergency directives, and unreviewed action documents while citing sonar and mobilization gaps. Adm Zumwalt and Adm Sonenshein are noted in the probe amid calls for reform and budget cut effects.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Navy
Pentagon
Naval Ship Systems Command
Navships
Ships Command
Adm
J. D. Arnold
Ships System Command
Arnold
G. E. Moore II
Nathan Sonenshein
Sonehshein
Lonenshein
Viewpoint on Lockheed loan and economic recovery tensions
A commentary notes Congress approving a 250 million pledge to back Lockheed loans, reflecting relief after years of lending risk. It links this to past 1930s bank failures, rail strikes, and a push for job creation and tariff or quota measures to shield American industry. The piece warns that recovery depends on stronger public policy.
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Washington
Congress
Lockheed Aircraft
Nixon
America
United States
Vietnam
Ecote Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Trusting God Through Uncertainty and Hope
The speaker notes life’s questions remain unanswered by design. A future blueprint would steal zest and hope, so Christians live by hope and trust as children of God. Serenity comes from accepting limits, choosing courage, and letting God reveal only what can be believed. Habakkuk’s example shows God works beyond human belief.
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Habakkuk
God
Get Yourself That Grows Payroll Savings Plan Pitch
A promotional piece touts joining the Payroll Savings Plan to automatically save 4A from each paycheck to purchase U S Savings Bonds. It notes a 5 percent interest at maturity after five years ten months, with a 4 percent first year and a 2 percent bonus for bonds issued since June 1 1970, plus improvements for older bonds.
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U.S
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Spiro
Zumwalt
Chief of Naval Operations
Elmo Zumwalt
Louisiana
Chevron
Gulf of Mexico
Chevron Corporation
Joshua Tilton
Gulf
Viewpoint
David Lawrence
Lockheed Loan OK
THE
Decatur Daily
W. R. Shelton
Decatur
Alabama
Tennessee Valley Printing CO. Inc
P.O Box
Alsociated Press
Penn Central Railroad
Billy Graham
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