Possible To Go To Sea And Not Even See The Sea
A Jeep carrier crew in the Third Fleet moves vast supplies toward Japan while most engine room workers stay below waterline tending turbines. Notables in Lt Rupert P Johnsons crew include James Diamantidis, Bob Marsden, Elvin Clausen, and Fred Mitchko, former pro football quarterback.
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Rupert P. Johnson
van Buren
Ark
Japan
William F. (Bull) Halsey
Third Fleet
Astoria
Ore
le Sam
James T. Diamantidis
New York City
Bob Marsden
Detroit
Mich
Automobile Manufacturing Corporation
Elvin M. Clausen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fred Frank Mitchko
Boonton
New York Giants
Shipboard Water Use Per Man Stated at Just Over Thirty Gallons
A report notes that each sailor aboard consumes a little more than 30 gallons of water daily for drinking bathing cooking dish washing and laundry. The figure covers all aboard and highlights extensive water needs on long voyages.
Textile workers vote in South Carolina mill election
Southeastern regional director Roy R. Lawrence of Charlotte said the Textile Workers Union of America won a majority in the Inman mills employee election in Inman South Carolina. Unofficial totals: TWUA 340, United Textile Workers 13, neither union 167.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartanburg
S. C
Textile Workers Union of America, Cio
Roy R. Lawrence
Charlotte
Inman Mills
Inman
Lawrence
TWUA
United Textile Workers, Afl
DDT Won't Faze Em In Portland Checker Summer
Portland parks face heavy checker bug presence during summer despots crowds out regulars and disrupts focus on the upcoming annual tournament. Afterward the Portland American Checker Association plans to resume winter quarters downtown with new members joining. Australia harbors about 28 000 miles of railways.
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Portland
Ore
American Checker Association
Winter Quarters
Park Carpenters
Australia
Full Fashioned Hosiery Makers Propose Raise and Benefits
Lang announces a 55 cents per hour minimum and a tiered raise plan for nylon and silk rate adjustments. The deal includes a second shift premium, extra vacation, wartime service credit, and wage surveys, with the current contract expiring August 31 and Philadelphia branch voting against ratification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lang
Philadelphia
Sealch No. 1
AFHW
CIO
Branch No. 1
William Leader
Branch
Leader
Hosiery Workers
GI Soldier's Razor Blade Bet Earns Big in Europe
Pfc. Raymond A. Beall of Frederick Maryland, with the 26th Infantry Division in Czechoslovakia, claims he supplements his GI diet by swallowing razor blades to win bets. He says he earned $860 in Europe and once ate 78 blades in one day. Beall describes the blades as tasteless and dissolving in the stomach, noting he previously ate light bulbs but stopped.
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Czechoslovakia
Raymond A. Beall
Frederick, Md
Beall
Europe
Food Ration Details And Timber Debarker Upgrade
The notice outlines ration stamp validity for fats meats sugar shoes and gasoline fuel items with specific dates. It notes an OPA plan to continue, and mentions pulp mills adopting a water debarking method yielding about 20 percent wood savings, bark removed by high pressure water jet. Australia is stated as a commonwealth since 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA Sys
Georgia Navy Cancels Plans For Football
Georgia navy pre flight cancels a football schedule due to expected trainee reductions making it impossible to field a team. The squad would have been student based with some candidates demobilizing or transferring. no backlog of officers or enlisted men remains to fill vacancies. Coach Lt. R S fightwomen led the planned schedule including Jacksonville navy air station Maxwell field and the University of Tennessee.
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Athens
Georgia Navy
W. M
Matty) Bell
USNR
Jacksonville Navy Air Station
Maxwell Field
University of Tennessee
Georgia Tech
Presbyterian College
Tomato history as the wolf peach nickname origin
Centuries ago the tomato was known as the wolf peach because of fear it was poisonous. The name arose from warnings that the fruit could harm animals, so wolf peaches were used as bait in attempts to drive wolves away.
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AL Dopking
Tokyo
Pacific
Johnson
Ladies Apparel Shoppe
United States
Toddington
England
Betty Lou Tobias
Allen Sign Company
Betty LouiSobias
Debby Lon Sportswear, Inc
Makers OF
N. Main
Bridge
Pierces
Georgia
Navy
Betty Lou
Tobias
High Point
Wreghty
N. Main St
Monroe
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