Iron Curtain Tightens Split Germany Across Border
Report from BOM Germany details the hardened border between East and West Germany. It describes patrols, barbed wire, watchtowers, and trip wires enacting a fragile barrier known as the Iron Curtain, with limited legal crossings and heavy restrictions for residents near the border.
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Berlin
Freedom Man
East Germany
Nists
German Democratic Republic
Pieck
GDR
Wilhelm Pieck
Tere
West Germany
East Zone
Frontier Police
Ene
West
Ger
Garland Welcomes Fleetline Shirt Factory in Peacetime Boost
Garland Sampson County opens its first major industry in Fleetline Industries Inc employing about 200 workers mainly women. The Berwick and Benton, Pa. plants are run by Levin and Hecht Co with the Garland plant showing strong productivity and low turnover. Local Industrial Development Association invested about 150000 in building four years ago and plans for more industry to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wade Lucas Garland
Sampson County
Garland
Fleetline Industries, Inc
Garland Industrial Development
Fleetline
Dustries
Warren
Garland Industrial Development Association
Ben Fratkin
Levin and Hecht Co
New York
Berwick
Beck Jr Plea for New Trial Is Denied in Grand Larceny
Seattle Superior Court Judge George H. Revelle rejects Dave Beck Jr. plea for a new trial after his conviction for misappropriating 6550 from the sale of three union cars. He faces up to 15 years in prison and could be sentenced next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
George H. Revelle
Dave Beck Jr
Teamsters Union
Touma
Feds
Young Beck
Revelle
Alexander Railroad thrives from Taylorsville to Statesville
Lawrence P. Zachary bought the 18.6 mile Alexander Railroad and built a viable line serving Taylorsville Hiddenite and Stony Point with a diesel engine bungalow depots and flexible schedule. His son Sam Zachary runs the operation and credits community support and tax relief for success.
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Taylorsville
N.C
Atlanta, Ga
American Short Line Railroad Assn
Lawrence P. Zachary
Alexander
Statesville
Zachary
Sam
Sam Zachary
Hiddenite
Stony Point
Oscar Kurkendall
Oscar
Southern
Rotary Club
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Alabama Polytechnic Institute
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Penn
be_yond Southern
Tom Tuas
Greensboro
Burlington
Hugh P. Beal
Orton A. Boren
Boren Clay Products Co
J. M. Bryan
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co
Wilbur L. Carter, JR
Southern Life Insurance Co
Greens
W. G. Clark, JR
Tarboro
N. L. Foy
Standard Paint & Hardware Co
Wilmington
N. P. Hayes
Carolina Steel & Iron Co
Salem Steel Co
L. W. Hill
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co
Mose Riser
Guilford Dairy Cooperative Assn
J. van Lindley
Lindley Nurseries, Inc
Reid A. Maynard
Tower Hosiery Mills, Inc
James M. Peden
Peden Steel Co
Raleigh
Earl N. Phillips
Phillips-Davis, Inc
High Point
James W. Poole
Taylor
Taylor Co
M. Vanstory
North Carolina
United States Government Securities
Federal Reserve Bank
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