Lewyt Plant Uses Vacations and Training to Boost War Output
Brooklyn firm Lewyt Corp built a 1,300 worker operation around training, vacation programs, and modern manufacturing to meet wartime demand. It used a vacation bureau, provides Y memberships and athletic teams, and empowered workers with a “girl Friday” role while upgrading processes for metal forming, sheet metal and radar related work. The postwar plan includes educational toys and precision standards to sustain growth.
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American Légion Post
Command Post
Plant Super
Tokyo
Department 2100
Alex Lewys
Lewyt
Indus
Gan Foreman
Alex
Lewyt Corporation
Susan Scully
Brooklyn
New Productions
America
Lewyt's
Hammer Killer Sought In Mississippi Hotel Slaying
Police hunted a hammer slayer after Mrs. Leona Pierce, 22, of Denver, was found murdered in a Ocean Springs hotel. Details show a man registered as Mr and Mrs Johnston with a hammer missing from the desk and a screwdriver placed beneath the victim. The fiancé Sgt Herman A Cole testified she planned marriage and telegrams about her arrival were late. Police described the suspect as about 30, five feet four, 140 pounds, wearing a brown suit.
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Ocean Springs
Wliss
Mar
Hammer
Leona Pierce
Denver
Colo
Herman A. Cole
D. O. Newman
George Hardy
New Orleans
Biloxi
Hardy
Sgt. Cole
Roane Mountain
Tenn
Mrs. Pierce
Coal Men Open Negotiations With Lewis
Washington March 1 coal miners and operators met under United Mine Workers leadership to negotiate a new contract as the current pact with Lewis's union nears expiration March 31. The dispute notice triggers a government review and possible strike vote within 30 days.Operators claim genuine talks and a goal of rapid production without disruption.
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Washington
von L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Ra Iing
UMWA
Brazil Tackles High Infant Mortality Rates
Brazilian medical leaders and press unite in a campaign to reduce infant deaths. Nationally 245 of every 1000 infants die before age one, with southern Curitiba at 114 per 1000 and northern Fortaleza at about one in three. The report also notes global irrigation estimates near 200 million acres.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Curitiba
Tropical Fortaleza
Brazil
Two Navy Submarines Feared Lost in Pacific
Two of the navy's newest submarines, the Escolar and the Shark, are overdue and presumed lost off the Pacific. Each submarine carries about 65 officers and men. The 1,525 ton submersibles, commissioned last year, were commanded by Comdr. Edward N. Blakely and Comdr. William J. Millican. The navy did not specify the search area. The losses bring total US submarines lost since the war to 39 and naval vessels lost to 267.
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Washington
Navy
Edward N. Blakely
Los Angeles
Shark
William J. Millican
Coronado
Calif
Pacific
United States
Electrical Wiring Kit For Multi Purpose Repair
An all purpose repair kit for solderless electrical wiring has been devised. It contains a precision tool that fulfills six purposes including cutting and stripping the wire indicating stud sizes and crimping the terminals.
Alphabet twins arrive at Norfolk General Hospital
Norfolk reporters note a rare birth of untriplets at General hospital. The mother Mrs. William W. Sawyer chose to name the three girls Anne Barbara and Christine after selecting the first three letters of the alphabet to tag their birth.
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Norfolk
General Hospital
William W. Sawyer
Anne
Barbara
Christine
Marines Cite Demolition Work in Pacific Cave Ops
Engineers of the Fourth Marine Division receive citations for placing charges to neutralize Japanese positions in caves pillboxes and dugouts. A veteran quips that neutralize means they blew the Japs to hell.
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Pacific
Fourth Marine Division
Bad Business Bars Prison Farm
Martinsville, Va. reports the prison farm suffers from overfunding and high costs as administration, led by Supt. J. S. Hackler, notes only three guests remain. The home economics program is kept despite scarce attendance, and a local father-figure urged city officials to close the facility.
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Martinsville
J. S. Hackler
Y Council
Electric generating test at Experimental Field Village
Report describes a reproduced generator setup at the Mich. Village experimental field with sponsor Henry A nylon rope and a half inch diameter line tested for load bearing.
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Mich
Henry
Red-Point Food Plan Tightens Rationing Worldwide
The OPA announces a Sunday start for a strict red-point plan raising values on cheaper beef and pork cuts. Hamburger and bacon rise from four to six points per pound, with several other cuts and many sausage items affected. some items expire from the ration free list. Officials warn civilian meat supplies may not improve until late summer or autumn.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Winnie’s Stogie on Boat London and Churchill Image
The tugboat Empire Winnie, which sailed to France on De-Day, bears Churchill smoking a cigar on each side of its funnel. The U S Army and Navy are now spending about 100,000,000 dollars monthly on rocket weapons.
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London
France
Churchill
U. S. Army
Marines convert downed plane into Palad telephone pole
Signalmen on Palad salvage a downed Japanese bomber and use it as a telephone pole after artillery felled the surrounding trees. The item hints at improvised communications amid Pacific warfare while noting odd biographical tidbits about Picasso and his signatures.
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Pacific
Palad
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John Reid
Park Street
Austria
Harlan Reid
Lifetime Pictures
High Point, N. C
ARISO
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Salcra
Morton
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James T. Warren
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England
M. L. Warren
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WTA
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