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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1945
Page
15
John Jacob Astor, one of America’s richest men, was born in Germany and arrived in New York with little money. He found work in a fur store earning two dollars a week, beginning a rise to vast wealth.
The quietest place in the world sits in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A room mounted on rubber columns and lined with insulating materials lets engineers test communications equipment in near total soundlessness. Separately, radio industry leaders forecast a surge in wartime to peacetime employment, with about 145,000 workers needed versus 86,000 in late 1940 as civilian production resumes.
Furloughs and awards across High Point highlight the wartime period. Pfc Wilbur Tuttle returns home from service with the Timberwolf division. S/Sgt William E. Grissom earns the Bronze Star for action in France Belgium Luxembourg and Germany. Cpl Harold B. Grimes comes home after eleven months with the 104th Timberwolf division.
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