Wright’s doubts shadow Rise of the Air Force and Forrestal’s path
Orville Wright questioned the airplane’s civil benefit versus its war toll. The piece recalls James Forrestal’s pivotal role in unification debates, Navy setbacks, and the defense secretary’s struggle to shape a semi independent Air Force versus merged services.
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Washington
INS
Orville Wright
Wilbur
Orville
James Forrestal
Army Air Corps
Air Corps
Congress
Forrestal
Navy
Air Force
Naval
Marine Aviation
White House
Army
Symington
Defense
Capitol Hill
Louis Johnson
Marine
Jim Forrestal
President Truman
Rheumatism Treatment Book Offered Free by Ball Clinic
Excelsior Springs Missouri July 23. The Ball Clinic offers a free book titled Rheumatism that explains why medicines fail and how their specialized system using mineral waters and baths has helped patients for over thirty years. Send a letter to The Ball Clinic Dept. 4612 to receive the enlarged book with no obligation.
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Excelsio Springs
Ball Clinic
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Leonard Street Pet Show Winners Announced
Leonard Street Playground hosted a Friday pet show awarding ribbons to winners in several categories. Most Handsome Pet went to Good Poertty, Most Unusual to Betty Crawford, Smallest Pet to Rachel Caline, Largest to James Crawford, Blackest Cat to Rachael Celine, and Whitest Cat to Sarah Beatty.
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Leonard Street Playground
Good Poertty
Betty Crawford
Rachel Caline
James Crawford
Rachael Celine
Sarah Beatty
New Research Lab Tackles Ant Type Job
Baltimore July 23 AP report on General Refractories Co opening a new research lab to study fire bricks refractories from raw material to furnace use. Engineers cite the need for higher temp resistance and lower production costs as open hearth steel demand grows.
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Rene J. Cappon
Baltimore
General Refractories Co
Philadelphia
Grefco
Experimental pilot plant enables full scale manufacturing
A description of an experimental pilot plant notes it permits all manufacturing processes to be conducted on a full commercial scale under controlled conditions, signaling readiness for scale up and regulated production.
Archdale Residents Seek Stoplight at Busy Intersection
Archdale residents circulated petitions to install a stoplight at the 311 and 62 intersection after a two week earlier wreck that killed one and injured five. Funds were also planned for the Peele family hospitalized from the crash. The State Highway Commission may approve the stoplight soon.
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Archdale
Robert L. Peele
Peele
State Highway Commission
Dillare Shell
Richmond
Virginia
Shell
W. D. Shell
Prestover
Panama Canal Zone
R. L. Worley, Jr
Cathy Lorana
Worley
Catherine Shell
C ‘I
Catherine Hackney
Seaman Apprentice Charles T. Smith To Arrive Annapolis
Charles T. Smith USN seaman apprentice, son of Mr and Mrs Charles T Smith Sr of 500 Steele St, is due in Annapolis Md July 25. He returns from Portsmouth England after a 15 day stop at Guantanamo Bay aboard the battleship USS Missouri.
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Charles T. Smith
USN
Charles T. Smith Sr
Steele St
Annapolis
Portsmouth
England
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Missouri
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Leon Shloss
International News Service
Aviation
Edna
N. Main ST
Betty Jo Ring
High Point Community Chest
Red Feather
Miss Ring
High Point High School
Enterprise
Chest Office
Playground News
General Electric
Meg
U.S Pat
Bermuda
Estelle Doyle
G. E. Distributors
Leigh Point Hardware CO
South Main
Archdale News
Sedgefield Inn
Lovely Sedgefield Inn
Greensboro
New York
Winthrop
Smart East Side
Starlight Root
Reserva
Bedgefield Inn
High Point Greensboro
Jlaklee
Jarllee
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