Lack of coordination boosts cost in U S military procurement
In a Leslie Gould series piece, the article argues the three services fail to coordinate buying, inflating armament costs. It cites a contractor switching from Air Force to Army Ordnance over price, tool shortages, and misused reconditioned equipment, illustrating systemic waste and delayed jet program progress.
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Leslie Gould
U.S
New York
Army
Navy
Air Force
Secretary of Defense
Mid-West
Shaft
Army Ordnance
Perform
Korea
Erection of Huge Tree Opens Gotham Christmas
New York columnist HAL BOYLE reflects on the Manhattan Rockefeller Center Christmas tree tradition. He notes the annual lighting process by Radio City elves, the citywide cheer, and the economic and social ripple effects as crowds anticipate festive displays and the end of the year. He contrasts rising hopes with the stark reality of workers facing job changes and retirement, suggesting the tree marks both celebration and inevitable endings in the urban year.
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Hal Boyle
New York
America
Manhattan
Merry Little Elves
Radio City
Squire’ Rockefeller
Frammis McJammis
Jeb O'Steady
Rodeo City
Feds Aid Fisheries Expansion Under Dingell Johnson Act
Washington reports a federal program to boost fishing resources through Dingell Johnson funds from a sport fishing tackle tax. About 2.5 million dollars will be spent this year with roughly 70 percent for research projects and the rest for development like lakes and stream work. Maximum grants go to California Michigan and Minnesota while many states receive the minimum. Michigan Missouri and Pennsylvania have funded fisheries researchlongstanding and will shift to development spending. Pennsylvania has plans to build a new fishing lake near Pittsburgh.
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Washington
California
Michigan
Minnesota
Connecticut
Delaware
Louisiana
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Vermont
Dingell-Johnson
Pittman-Robertson
Missouri
Pennsylvania
National Wildlife Federation
Pittsburgh
Bus Firm Seeks Route Cuts Between Cities
Carolina Coach Co. asked the Utilities Commission for permission to drop service on the Oxford Roxboro Roxboro Burlington Sanford and Lillington routes citing insufficient passenger traffic. The report notes heat in a Bessemer furnace is produced by oxygen combined with manganese silicon and carbon.
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Raleigh
Carolina Coach Co
the Utilities Commission
Oxford
Roxboro
Burlington
Sanford
Lillington
Micmac Tribe Back at Peace With Paleface
Washington reports the Micmac Indians, once warlike toward Europeans, have returned to Nova Scotia woods to guide white visitors, harvest Maine potatoes, and lead sportsmen through lakes and forests. Many are skilled bricklayers or carpenters trained in government schools. Women sell baskets annually by rail, and the tribe’s early history links to Cabot and Champlain. Today about 3,400 Micmacs reside on 40 small reservations in winter.
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Aroostook
Maine
National Geographic Society
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Prince Edward Island
Whycocomagh
Shubenacadie
van Buren
Camphbelton
A Grade Prisoner Escapes In Onslow
Arvilla Martin a 22 year old Morganton Black escaped from Onslow County prison camp Wednesday the prisons department reported Martin was an A grade prisoner serving five years for breaking and entering.
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Raleigh
Arvilla Martin
Morganton
Onslow County
Prisons Department
Martin
Moslems Fleeing Reds Reported by Voice of America
The State Department's Voice of America says more than 3,000,000 Moslems fled Soviet Asiatic republics to escape Communist oppression. It notes asylum in India Kashmir Afghanistan and Middle East states, and cites propaganda aims by stressing religious persecution. Gerald Dooher directs Near Eastern broadcasts in Turkish Arabic Azeri Armenian Georgian Turkestani and related scripts.
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the Voice
Near East
Soviet Union
Russia
Turkestanis
Central Asia
Voice
Sinkiang
The
India
Kashmir
Afghan
Istan
Middle Eastern
New Delhi
U.S
United States
U. S
Voice Department
Gerald Dooher
Dooher
Woman Bitten On Ankle By Local Canine
A dog owned by W. K. Kennedy bit Maggie Penny on her ankle as she walked from his back porch. Poundmaster A. J. Hines placed the animal in the city pound for 21 days of observation to check for infection. A separate report seeks a black and white stray dog accused of killing eight chickens on Evans Street Sco.
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Maggie Penny
Kivett Drive
W. K. Kennedy
Kennedy House
Hines
City
Evans Street
Annie Bell Mackey
Rare Book Fragment Collector’s Modest Hoard Revealed
Otto F. Ege, dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art, built a vast collection of damaged books and manuscript fragments. After his death, his will disclosed about 45000 dollars in fragments, including over 1500 manuscript pages, illuminated items, a 2163 Persia Koran, a 15th century Book of Hours, and an 80-year-old Morroccan Psalter, with appraisals considered unrealistically low.
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Cleveland, C
Otto F. Ege
Cleveland Institute of Art
Ege
Morocco
Wyman acts a cook in The Blue Veil and more
Hollywood notes describe Jane Wyman performing a housework scene in The Blue Veil and recount her real skills, including knitting and sewing, plus a glimpse at her baby care role. The piece also covers tumbleweeds used for a Texas-set backdrop in Return of the Texan, Gilbert Roland’s My Six Convicts role, and studio stories about stagecraft and older career shifts.
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Harmon
David
Bathsheba
Dale
Walter
Palmdale
Gilbert Roland
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Punch Pinero
Kramer
Columbia
Rales
Norma Talmadge
Billie Dove
Mary Astor
Constance Bennett
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