Postwar High Point growth plans cited in city outlook
The High Point postwar outlook highlights industry in hosiery and furniture, planned factory expansion, hotel and hospital projects, and a strong home-building trend. It warns against delay and defeatist thinking, urging blueprints for expansion and a resilient, businesslike approach to seize opportunity after the war.
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High Point
Atlanta
Committee On Economic Development
Chamber of Commerce
Quotes From High Point Residents Reflect Rationing and Local Concerns
A collection of city voices discusses rationing, gas taxes, and personal sacrifices amid wartime restrictions. Opinions touch on Governor Dewey's speech, postponement of Rainbow Girls events, and polio fears. Also noted are a prison escapee, bike registrations, library space, and July Fourth fatigue.
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Carolinas
Grand Assembly
Order of Rainbow Girls
W. W. Dickerson
Rainbowirts
High Point
Platform clash and war front notes in wartime column
The piece outlines Republican platform framing and partisan reaction with Dewey and Landon figures, plus a war briefing on Cherbourg, Normandy operations, and Tirpitz destruction, highlighting strategic debates and Allied advances in 1944.
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Ray Tucker
Chicago
United States
G.O.P/s
Winchell On Broadway A portrait of Woodrow Wilson in culture and lore
A prose portrait recalls Wilson’s life as governor and president with anecdotes on his humor, dress, tastes in golf and theater, public feuds, vocabulary, and personal alliances. It notes his reputation, aides, and the era’s political theater and street lore surrounding him.
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Jesus
God
Christ
Herbert Hoover
Thomas E. Dewey
Joe Grundy
Ennsylvania
Daniel A. Reed
New York
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Arthur H. Vanderberg
Michigan
Warren R. Austin
Vermont
John A
Lodge
Borah
Johnson
League of Nations
Wilson
Charles Evans Hughes
William Howard Taft
Reed
Missouri
White House
Woodrow Wilson
University of Virginia
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Thomas
Princeton
Sity
Colege
Senator Smith
Smith
New Jersey
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Athens
Associated Press
Post Ce
N. C
John
Lexington Ave
N. J. City
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Israel
W.A.B
Justice
Mary King
Dewey
Howard Wright
4. A. Sloop
William Pitts
Sandy Ridge
Caven
Main Street
Charles Cameron
Margaret Gue
Clyde Foushee
Squabbles
Atlantic Seaboard
Minnesota
Dakotas
Kentucky
Tennessee
G.O.P
Albert Leman
Cherbourg
Montgomery
Caen
Lombardy
Ike” Eisenhower
Monty
Marshal von Runstedt
Sewell
Wester France
Italy
Norway
Normandy
A.E.F
High Command
British
Fleet Air Arm
Alton Fjord
Anthony Kimmins
Hitler
Bay of
Kimmins
Tirpitz
Margaret
Eddie Leonard
Frank Sinatra
National Theatre
Washington
Palace Theatre
Clemenceau
Paris
Europe
Gestapo
President Wilton
Jan Smuts
Mrs. Galt
State Department
NEA Service
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