Boulder Businessmen Turn Gem Cutters For War Production
In Boulder Colorado a dozen local tradesmen swap daytime trades for night shift gem cutting to supply radio crystals for tanks planes and ships. Quartz from Brazil is cut tested and refined through a specialized three month course by Colorado University to meet urgent lend lease and military orders.
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Robert Geiger
Feaures
Boulder
Colo
Herb Hollister
Army
Navy
Kansas
Rockies
Libyan
Globe
United Nations
Seven Seas
Brazil
United States
Hollister
Moscow
Colorado University
Crystal
Honors and antics mark Capitol Square page honors and politics
Joe Blythe receives another honorary page certificate in the North Carolina senate while Old Taylor faces unfavored bills and Grand Dad is named an honorary pagette. The 1943 legislature approves arts funding and a Belmont textile school grant as club women push a horn tootin bill amid jokes and politics. Marvin Ritch, long a stormy political figure, is noted in the recap.
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Joe Blythe
North Carolina State Senate
Mecklenburg County
House of Representatives
Lew Wallace
Lenoir
Old Taylor
Guide to Good Nutrition from Wilson’s Weekly
Wilson's Weekly Food and Nutrition Consultant explains rationing in a land of plenty and urges careful meal planning. The column reproduces a basic foods guide for a correct energy-building diet to aid shopping and meal planning over several days.
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Land of Plenty
Menu in the Making Wartime Wilson sausage biscuits
A wartime recipe shows biscuit dough with enriched flour baking powder salt and shortening then wrapped around Wilson's Certified Pure Pork Sausage with mustard. The bake at 426 F for about 20 minutes and a closing slogan urges looking for Wilson products when shortages occur.
Glider Girl Opening Sparks Bold Job Plot
Miss Patricia Friday defies her boss and pursues a high risk secretarial job ad promising travel and $50 a week. She outsmarts rivals at a Columbia Building interview, persuades a wary Carr, and steps into a tense test of nerve and wit.
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Pat
James Carr
Columbia Building
103Rd Street
Pat Friday
Patricia Friday
Mecklenburger Holds Floor Over Textile School Bill
In a dramatic display the Mecklenburger argued for textile center support and hog cholera measures, saying eastern and mountain counties had secured funding while a small vital need for the state’s textile industry faced defeat. The Senate already passed the bill by a single vote.
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Ritch
Senate
Automatic propeller speed synchronizer for multi engine planes
Oklahoma City report describes a fully automatic propeller speed synchronizer in one of America's aviation industries. The device keeps all propellers on a multi engine aircraft at identical operating speeds, improving performance and coordination.
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America
Avation Industries
Recapping Requirement Applies to All Card Tire Holders
All tires not in proper condition must be recapped regardless of ownership by A B or C card holders. This rule applies to any tire under the program and mandates corrective action to ensure safety and compliance.
Fliers Fight To Battle The Japanese At A U S Heavy Bomber Base
At an American heavy bomber base in India morale soars as airmen vie for combat missions. Captain Hood notes pilots would rather miss meals than miss a mission and chaplains enforce strict orders for crew assignment.
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United States
India
William B. Hood
Charlotte
Hood
Key Found Lock Gone at Bates House Inception Tale
Absent minded tourist who forgot to turn in a Bates House room key between 1852 and 1901 finally receives the key for room 269. The Bates House was torn down in 1901, and the key arrives decades later, delivered to the site’s successor hotel.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Bates House
Rationing FAQ Answers For NC Households
Raleigh March 11 officials from the Office of War Information release new questions and answers on processed food rationing. The guidance covers extra baby food allowances, long distance shopping, garden seed care, aids for the blind, canned foods for service members, church and boarding house provisions, stamp adjustments, and point values for dry beans and soups.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Office of War Information
Theodore S. Johnson
OPA
Flight recorder aids testing of new aircraft designs
Aeronautical engineers have developed a flight recorder that electrically computes and records data on new aircraft to speed testing and reduce pilot workload. The device collects flight parameters, aiding evaluation and safety during test flights.
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Lynn Nisbet
Gaserpree Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Frank Taylor
Wayne
General Assembly
North Carolina Symphony Orchestra
North Carolina Art Society
Belmont
Horn Tootin
J. M. Broughton
Ritch - Marvin Ritch
Mecklenburg
Wilson’s Weekly
Wilson & Co
Wilson’s
Rman
Oren Arnold
NEA Service, Inc
Suite 20
Washington
Miss Stuart
Friday
Jack Waszak
Cupid
Jimmy Carr
Loraine Stuart
Oklahoma City
Hubby
H. C. Jones
gavAt Cro
ROYAL
Lux
Swan Soap
Avis Vorn
Krellogg
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