ATSC Built U S Greatest Air Power in World
ATSC at Wright Field reveals the wartime rise of the U S air power. From 3,000 planes at Pearl Harbor to 9,117 in 1944, with 300 thousand aircraft produced since 1941. Maintenance, supply, and plant investments expanded the industry and aided the war effort and postwar reconversion.
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Edward Jason Wright
Dayton
Trarl Harbor
ATSC
Jon
Willow Run
Ford
Chicago
Chrysler
Japan
AAF
Vice President During Coolidge First Term
The vice president serving during Calvin Coolidge’s first term was Charles G. Dawes. The prompt also asks about U S senators’ salaries compared to representatives and the gait names for a fire gaited horse, plus etiquette hints about cheerful notes to the ill.
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Horoscope for October 5 Personal traits and marriage forecast
The column says you are progressive, talented and dependable with executive ability. It notes a harmonious married life, suggests using your energy to complete tasks, and clearing the week ahead for weekend enjoyment.
Horse Show Note on Officials and Prizes
A brief item notes there was no vice president and that recipients receive identical salaries of 10 000 dollars. It lists gait types including walk trot canter rack and slow gait associated with the event.
Ascension Is Lonely Island Outpost
In the South Atlantic British island Ascension is home to a key American airbase used for refueling repairs and rest for pilots en route to Africa Europe and Asia. Fliers view the tiny rock as a lonely but vital stop amid vast waters and distant home fronts.
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Ascension
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Ascension Island
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Miami
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Casablanca
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Cairo
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Gibraltar
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Atlantic
Eastern Hockey Loop Opens Play November 2
The Eastern Hockey League will start the 1945-46 season November 2 with the New York Rovers at Boston and the Philadelphia Falcons at Washington. Opening dates follow through November 6 with Baltimore at Philadelphia and Washington at Baltimore, plus Philadelphia at New York. Each team faces a 34 game league schedule plus matches against Canadian clubs including Montreal Royals and Valleyfield Braves.
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Eastern Hockey League
New York Rovers
Boston
Philadelphia Falcons
Washington
Thomas D. Lockhart
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Montreal Royals
Valleyfield
POW Pennington recalls 11 months in vicious circle
S Sgt. Charles O. Pennington of Nettleton Mississippi says his time as a prisoner of war amounted to wandering in a circular route around the compound. He explains the routine kept him active, gave fresh air, and exercise during captivity.
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N. J
Charles O. Pennington
Nettleton
AAF
Jack
Hellman
Daily Variety
Somaone
Winchell
Radio
Love Letters of a Newspapersman at George Washington Univ
A 1945 letter from Walter Winchell fans at George Washington University thanks him for denouncing attacks on FDR. The note praises his stand, mentions honorary membership ideas, and cites supportive clippings from Paris and New York media figures.
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George Washington ' University
Winchell
Franklin D Roosevelt
New York
James ‘ Fizsimmons
Mr. Fitzsimmons
Fdr
Carly
Mechanical Hands Show High Efficiency for Handless Vets
Camp Edwards Massachusetts demonstrates prosthetic hooks enabling tasks from lighting matches to writing with a pen. The lead demonstrator is Lieut. Edwin V. Rawley, a WWII B 24 crash survivor who lost both hands and now trains fellow veterans, stressing independence over sympathy.
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Camp Edwards
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Edwin V. Rawley
Camp Haan
Calif
Rawley
Bushnell General Hospital
Brigham City
Utah
Hawley
Sweet Potato Harvest Demos Run Across North Carolina
A series of sweet potato harvesting demonstrations using a middlebuster and vine cutter is underway in 10 North Carolina counties. The State College extension service conducts the events with J Y Lassiter Howard Ellis and Ralph Sechler leading. Costs of plowing the crop can be cut in half by the new method.
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State College Extension Service
Pitt
Perquimans
Martin
Tyrrell
Nash County
Lee
Cleveland
Rutherford
Catawba
Rowan
J. Y. Lassiter
Howard Ellis
State College
Ralph Sechler
State Department of Agriculture
Lassiter
Veteran lighthouse keeper honored for long service
Florence Oregon April River coast guard updates note Clifford B. Hermann a veteran lighthouse keeper received praise from Secretary of the Navy Forrestal for more than forty years of service. He has been keeper at Heceta Head lighthouse near Florence since 1925.
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Florence, Ore
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Washington Coast
Secretary of the Navy
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Heceta Head
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Walla Walla man seeks bees swarm in downtown raid
Walt Forshaw started to gather a swarm of bees in downtown Walla Walla but police intervened and used sulphur fuses to stop the yellow jackets.
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INS
Walt Forshaw
Walla Walla
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