National Archives Shows Cycles to the Future
Washington readers learn how the National Archives preserves United States records from 1774 onward. The historic building, Hoover laid corner stone, houses a vast vault with over a million photographs and eight million feet of film, guiding officials on what records to keep or discard.
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Bicycle Runaway in Kansas City
Kansas City police report 12 year old Susanna Brown ran away two months after starting piano lessons. She fled with two small suitcases on a bicycle and was found at a friend's home where she had sought refuge.
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Kansas City
Usanna Brown
Lamps Burn Bright in Long Running Test at Plant
An electrical manufacturing plant operates since 1944, producing and testing over 26 000 tiny lamps daily for telephone switchboards. Samples are placed on life test boards and many have burned continuously since January 1944.
Radio Schedule Revisions For Thursday July 25
Corrections by networks delay changes to Thursday’s radio lineup. Times listed are PM Eastern, with daylight saving notes and varying relay by local stations.
Longevity in Pittsburg: Frank Horner Keeps Coal Office Open
At 99 years old Frank Horner of Pittsburg remains active in business as he opens his coal office daily. He drinks neither alcohol nor tobacco and credits a stout heart for his longevity.
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Frank Horner
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Freight car shortage hampers U.S. productive effort
A severe shortage of freight cars threatens to cap industrial output as railroads race to speed deliveries. Railroads, steel makers, and coal mines face bottlenecks with car deliveries down from May to June and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. urged to finance 50 000 new cars for lease.
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Pittsburgh
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Air Lines
Series of Aerial Storm Tests Are Contemplated
Wright Field Ohio reports Trans World research pilot Robert Buck will fly a P 61 Black Widow on thunderstorm detection tests. The aim is to determine safe storm types and provide usable guidance to flying agencies. Buck, a former airline chief pilot and recent Air Medal recipient, leads a radar equipped test crew.
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Robert Buck
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Kansas City
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J. M. Gillespie
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Ira C. Baker
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TWA
Flying chefs to serve hot in-flight meals by Capital Airlines
Capital Airlines plans in flight cooking with a chef on four engine Douglas transports. An electrically operated oven and steam tables will cook pre cooked meals in 12 minutes. Menu options include roast beef turkey steak and chicken with fresh vegetables.
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Capital Airlines
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J. H. Carmichael
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Capitaliner
A Man's World on Oklahoma Campus This Summer
On the University of Oklahoma campus in Athens 1204 men have enrolled for an eight week session, with about 1100 veterans among them. It marks the first time in 142 years that women have been outnumbered on the campus.
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Athens
News criticizes gender role manners in bus seating
The New Castle News protests that women must be gentlemen by giving up seats. It notes male riders allow women to surrender seats to older passengers as a common courtesy.
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New Castle
INL
Ohio State veterans show strong academic progress
Veterans who attended Ohio State before the war are doing much better after returning from service say Junior Deans Leston L. Love and Chester A. Hutchison. A survey finds veterans make excellent academic risks. The piece notes historical facts about early Britons and Gauls using rings as currency.
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Leston L. Love
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Chester A. Hutchison
College of Agriculture
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