North Carolina War Industry Boom Expands Across State
North Carolina sees a wartime industrial upswing with plans for a Canadian American Company plant in Carrboro to produce shell loading, a Piedmont city poised for an airplane motor plant, and Durham factory conversion to war work. The War Production Board names Irving Hall director of war contract distribution in NC, amid Washington-skeptical reports, while Wojb appointments also shift Wachovia bank directorships as local leaders move into govern
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Bob Thompson
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Waller
Raleigh
North Carolina
Governor Broughton
Carrboro
Piedmont
Durham
West
War Productions Board
Irving Hall
Robert M. Hanes
WPB
Broughton
Washington
Hanes
Hall
E. A. Terrell
Charlotte
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Terrell
Wachovia
Charles D. Owens
Beacon (Blanket) Manufacturing Company
Asheville
Thomas J. Hackney
Hack
Hall confirms wartime role and NC war plant push
Hall takes a federal post at 86 500 a year, leaving his job as president of the State Capitol Life Insurance Company. The appointment aims to spur war contracts in North Carolina, aid small industries in securing financing for war work and conversion, and help industries secure priorities as state headquarters organize efforts.
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Con
Radio Programs Schedule with Network Alterations
A dense OCR style list outlines hourly radio programming across networks with ajusted times for Eastern to Mountain and Central zones. It lists serials dramas songs news blocks and variety segments from 5:00 PM through 11:15 PM with entities such as CBS NBC ABC networks Douglas and personalities like Dorothy Kilgallen F. Waring Time and Henry Aldrich Family, plus orchestras and special features.
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Tom Mix
Johnnie Johnston
Scadergood Baines
Cairo
Asic
Denver
Dancing Music Orchestra
Dorothy Kilgallen
Cbs
Mbs
Bob Hannen
Nhc
Red
Mr. Keen
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Hera
That Morgan
al Pearce
Nbc
Four Eaton Boys
Orchestra
Maudie
Dinie Arthur Hale
H. V. Kaltenborn
Jack Stevens
Death Valley
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Henry Aldrich
Abe-Red Army Camps
Ed Gardner
Duffy's Tavern
Danea Orch
Elmer Davis
Abe-Red
Major Bowen
Dhs
Gabriel Heatter
News of
Mexico
E. G. Robinson
Veslee Barrymore
Abe
Pearce Gang
Abe-Red-West
Glenn Miller
Raymond Gram
U. S. Navy
Metropolitan Opera Guild
Frank Fay
Variety
Altered Wear
Fulton Lewis
World News Broadcasting
Mibs
Fred Waring
Nbc-Red
War production in North Carolina gains momentum
Tract distributions will be in Raleigh and a Charlotte branch office is opened with Gene Ochsenreitter of Asheville in charge. Additional branches may follow if needed. Hall will organize a field force as speed in war production becomes urgent after prior delays. Progress finally appears under way.
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Nature
Doan
Raleigh
Charlotte
Gene Ochsenreitter
Asheville
Hall
Annual Style Show Set For April 30 In Raleigh
Dr. Thomas Nelson announces North Carolina colleges for women will join 15th annual style show at Pullen Hall Raleigh on April 30. Ten colleges participate, about 160 students design and model garments from fabrics by the Textile School, with 1,400 students participating since the event began to promote cotton in women's wear.
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Raleigh
Thomas Nelson
State College Textile School
North Carolina Colleges For
Meredith College
Pullen Hall
Appalachian State
Elon
Flora MacDonald
Greensboro
High Point
Louisburg
Meredith
Peace
Queens
St. Mary's
Dean Nelson
Remarkable Corn Stalk and Backyard Bananas Noted
In Marshalltown Iowa a corn stalk grew to 23 feet 10 inches in 1940. In Miami Florida the mayor raised bananas in his own backyard reflecting curious home farming feats.
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Marshalltonn
Miami
Fla
A and T Choir To Appear In Concert Here Sunday Night
A race relations observance in High Point features the A and T College choir from Greensboro under Warner Lawson. The concert at Junior High School Sunday at 7 30 pm includes reserved balcony for Negro attendees and no admission fee, with offerings to support the choir. Several churches join in, inviting others to attend and promote interracial goodwill.
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High Point
Musical Arts Club
A. and T. College
Greensboro
Warner Lawson
Lawson
First Baptist
Westeey Memorial
South Main
Ward Street
First Methodist
First Presbyterian
Emmanuel Lutheran
St. Mary's Episcopal
First Evangelical and Reformed
Central Friends
Peak human form at twenty six, scientists say
Scientists peg peak human physical condition around age twenty six while noting Denmark’s royal standard flag is the oldest national flag still in existence.
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Royal Standard of
Denmark
Detective In Chocolates Brings Subtle Warning
Charles McCormick Wilson, director of the police laboratory, spent an evening boring holes in chocolates that hid medicine. His four year old son, Mike, refused the pills earlier and later declared, I don’t like chocolate. He then asked for the pills directly.
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Chicago
Charles McCormick Wilson
Police Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory
Mike
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