Foe Patents Go To U. S. Plants
The White House said patents seized from enemy nationals will not be sold but licensed to legitimate U S manufacturers. More than 50 000 patents will be vested in the alien property custodian by year end for war use and general national interest. Licenses are royalty free non exclusive for the life of the patent with modest fees after the war.
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Washington
White House
Leo T. Crowley
Roosevelt
United Nations
Crowley
World War Baby Born at New Hospital in Las Vegas
In Las Vegas the first baby born at the Basic Magnesium Inc. hospital is William Thomas War, a seven pound boy nicknamed World War by doctors and nurses. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. War.
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Las Vegas
New Basic Magnesium (Inc
T. L. War
William Thomas War
Nazis Ban Marriages Between Germans and Italians
Stockholm reports Professor Gross, head of the Nazi Institute of Racial Policy, asserts that Nazis will not allow marriages between Germans and non Aryan foreigners including Italians. He says foreigners and Scandinavians are unknown quantities and rejects any shift toward European unity affecting racial policy.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Europe
Jower
Gross
Nazi Institute of Racial Policy
Suspected Bomb Turns Out To Be Bag Of Apples
In Hempstead New York police responded to a report of a man placing a bag in a tree at dusk. The bag contained hard round objects and a note about sand and a distant intersection. The bomb squad opened it carefully and found apples, part of a treasure hunt.
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Hempstead
N. Y
Manos assigns full pay to war bonds in Whitefish
Pete Manos of Whitefish Montana directs the bond sales chairman to take his entire salary, $125 a month under a payroll allotment, until victory. He notes his Greek family is hungry and he can tighten his belt for the war effort.
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DeMilly
la Voix de France
France
Whitefish
Mont
Pete Manos
Greece
Plastics Age Dawns With Substitutes For War Needs
New York reports experts predicting 1943 marks the start of the plastics age as substitutes expand from bottle caps to tires and ship components. Modern Plastics publisher Breskin notes wartime demand shifted the industry, making plastics critical and rapidly expanding into civilian goods and military use.
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New York
Charles A. Breskin
Modern Plastics Magazine
Breskin
American Airman Hikes 200 Miles in Jungle
Capt Wynn D Miller of Columbia Missouri parachuted into Burma during a December 7 mission to attack Japanese held Mandalay. After a crash landing he trekked 200 miles through dense jungle for 18 days to reach the Indian frontier without injury.
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Calcutta
Wynn D. Miller
Columbia
Burma
Miller
Mandalay
Million-Volt X-Ray Machine At University Of Rochester
A giant million-volt industrial X-ray device will soon operate at the University of Rochester. It will reveal defects in thick metal castings in minutes and is described as one of the world’s most powerful. Eight local firms share access, with the apparatus housed in a reinforced concrete building and moved by a 10-ton overhead crane.
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Rochester
N. Y
University of Rochester
Robert E. Frederickson
Deported Alien Faces The Same Judge Twice
Francis Alexander a 23 year old Canadian appears in federal court in Coeur d Alene Idaho on a re entry charge after being deported. Judge Lewis B Schwellenbach ordered his transfer from Eastern Washington district court to Idaho district for trial. Temporary Idaho district judge is Schwellenbach.
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Spokane
Wash
Francis Alexander
Federal
Coeur D’alene
Idaho
United States
Alexander
Washington
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
U S Birth Rate Hits New High For The Year
The U S census bureau reports a birth rate of 20.5 per thousand for the first ten months, a record high and up from 18.9 in 1941. The rate has risen since 1934 after a drop to 16.6 during the worst year of the Depression.
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U. S
Washington
United States
U. S. Census Bureau
Bus Driver Marries Between His Runs in Pasadena
Robert Hulen Smith, 25, a Pasadena bus driver, wed Avis May Gray, 23, in a hurried ceremony performed by Superior Judge Frank C. Collier in his chambers. Smith explained he was “between runs” at the moment, adding a light note to the couple’s wedding.
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Pasadena
Calif
Robert Hulen Smith
Avis May Gray
Frank C. Collier
Smith
Teen Age Men Learn Leadership In Officers' Training School
Young men aged 17 to 19 train at the Officers' Candidate School in Fort Benning Georgia. The program provides leadership training, military experience and physical conditioning as part of their service to the U S army, with photographs illustrating daily routines.
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Officers’ Training School
America
Fort Benning
U. S. Army
Sergt
Marvin Carter
David P. Lehman
Elkhart
Ind
War era shifts in American League baseball outlook
The piece contrasts war era effects on the American League with the National League, noting the Yankees’ dominance in prior years and the potential tighter race in 1943 due to players serving in the armed forces. It discusses star losses like DiMaggio, Feller, and Ruffing, gate implications, and references other sports figures and 1942 racing totals.
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Armed Services
Yankees
Yankee
Tommy Henrich
Phil Rizzuto
Charley Ruffing
Buddy Hassett
Red Rolfe
Yale
Joe McCarthy
Joe DiMaggio
McCarthy
New York
Lincoln
General Knowledge Quick Quiz
Alluvial gold is a naturally occurring alloy of gold. The German secret police is the Gestapo. The colors of the rainbow are red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. The right bank of a river is the south bank when facing downstream. Vegetables ivory is plant material from the tagua palm. A fellah is an Egyptian farmer. If a man is sartorially correct he is well dressed. Tabasco is a state in Mexico. An accumulation of earth stones etc deposited by a glacier is a moraine. Rhinestones are imitation diamonds and originated in Germany.
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Secret Police
Gestapo
Tabasco
Geheime Staats Polizei
Egypt
Syria
Mexico
Rhine
Glossary style riddle list with diverse terms
A series of short clues describes gold presence in streams and soils a German police term a color spectrum riverbank direction ivory substitute a palm seed a well dressed peasant in Arabic regions Mexico moraine and colorless high luster paste stones from the Rhine, suggesting a vintage glossary entry.
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