Flying Classroom Teaches Navigators At Navy School
Nine student navigators use a TC47 classroom converted for navigation at Hensley Field. Capt Possett leads the lesson as Lt Benkendorf notes a sextant error near Miami. The unit trains by simulating each student as a separate aircraft in formation with shared desks and gear.
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Secre
Air Force
Capt. Posselt
Hensley Field
Miami
Fla
Kingston
Jamaica
Canal Zone
George Benkendorf
Grand Prairie
Tex
Capt
Possett
De Silva Moves From Screen Dreams to Union Leadership
Joe De Silva, once chasing a Hollywood career, rose to lead Southern California's supermarket and drugstore clerks union Local 770. He led wage gains, expanded benefits, and helped integrate hiring, arguing efficient stores survived higher pay while less efficient shops closed. His rise began after 1937 contract gains and relief-line hardship prior to union success.
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John Beckler
Hollywood
Joe de Silva
Retail Clerks Union
de Silva
New York
California
Beck
Dave Beck
America
State Supreme Court
Rudolph Valentino
Los Angeles
Peanut support price lowered for 1957 crop peanuts
The Agriculture Department sets a minimum national average support price of 221.40 dollars per ton for 1957 crop peanuts, down from 227.04 last year. The rate equals 82 percent of parity and may rise with the Aug. 1 marketing season start. available in Carolinas Georgia Virginia and 12 other states.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Carolinas
Georgia
Virginia
Wake Forest appoints two new department chairs
Wake Forest College announces the appointment of two new chairmen. Jasper L. Memory Jr. becomes Education chair, Henry L. Snuggs takes English. President Harold W. Tribble confirms moves as Dr. H. Broadus Jones retires and Dr. D. B. Bryan steps down in June. Snuggs has taught at Wake since 1945. Memory since 1929.
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D. B. Bryan
Wake Forest
Bryan
Jones
Tribble
Albemarle
Snuggs
Memory
Whiteville
Des Moines Clothier Sends Help After Demand Surges
Heck Ross of Des Moines visited a rival store to buy a suit but found one clerk serving three customers. He dispatched a clerk from his own shop to assist. The substitute sold a $40 suit to the waiting shopper.
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Des Moines
Heck Ross
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Office Equipment CO
S. Main ST
N. Main
Olds
Oldsmobile
Tou Joe DeSilva
Hollywood, Calif
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Vine
DeSilva
Iron Curtain
Crusade For Freedom
The
Advertising Council
Newspaper Advertising Executives Association
Wake Names Department
Temple-Hollingsworth Motors
South Main
Security National
Commerce Street
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Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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