Recorders to measure naval blast effects at Bikini tests
Westinghouse researchers in Pittsburgh will equip two target ships with radio linked gauges to record air and water pressures from atomic blasts during Operation Crossroads. Instruments use strain gauges and quartz crystals to transmit data to mother ships, enabling rapid, precise readings of pressure changes in under a twentieth of a second.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Bikini Atoll
Westinghouse Research Laboratories
Nagasaki
L. W. Chubb
Chubb
Shoup
Shoupp
Sponsor Wanted For Baboon In Baltimore
Felix A. Leser, new director of the Druid Hill Park zoo, promotes advertising at the zoo with endowed cages. He says there is nothing like animal displays for sales promotion and aims for more variety due to lions being overstocked. A pair of kangaroos could earn a branded plaque, and a company has ordered a dozen swans.
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Baltimore
Animal Kingdom
Felix A. Leser
Druid Hill Park Zoo
Leser
Ship Of State Sails In Fog In Canberra Debates
The Australian house of representatives features heavy metaphorical talk as Housing Minister H P Lazzarini faces opposition about housing policy. Labor member H C Barnard of Tasmania critiques the financial impact on families while County Party Leader Arthur Fadden signals plans to table letters on the floor.
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Canberra
Australia
House of Representatives
H. P. Lazzarini
Arthur Fadden
Labor
H. C. Barnard
Tasmania
Silesia Seeks Aid for Relief in Lower Silesia
Wroclaw reports urgent aid from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is needed in lower Silesia. One cow per 600 acres and a severe shortage of horses and tractors are described, highlighting agricultural distress and wartime scarcity.
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Wroclaw
Breslau
Poland
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Lower Silesia
Village to house 350 orphans near Trogen in Switzerland
Foundations for an orphan village on an 11 acre tract near Trogen in eastern Switzerland were laid to shelter 350 children from devastated European countries. Fifteen first dwellings will be built in Swiss farm style, with orchards and pastures. Three to five houses will form a commune guided by Swiss and foreign teachers. The village is named Pestalozzi and deposits are guaranteed by the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trogen
Switzerland
Boston Stock Exchange Moves to Remodeled State Street Quarters
The 111 year old Boston stock exchange relocates within its State street site to remodeled quarters designed for greater efficiency and speed. The modernization preserves the financial center's historic location in New England.
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Boston
INS
Boston Stock Exchange
State Street
Financial Center of
New England
Soviet Saving Deposits Reach Record High in 1945
Moscow reports Soviet bank deposits climbed to eight and a half billion rubles by January, about $722.5 million, marking a record gain of 3.4 million rubles for 1945. Six month and longer deposits earn five percent interest, shorter terms three percent.
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Moscow
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