Pittsburgh Power Strike Ripples Across the Nation
Pittsburgh’s 12 day stalemate shuts down 100000 workers locally and disrupts processors and fabricators across an 817 square mile area. Detroit’s Chrysler and Briggs workers face layoffs and Huntington sees 300 cutbacks as power shortages mount. Government mediators meet with Duquesne Light and union officials to push toward a settlement.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler and Briggs Manufacturing Company
Huntington
W. Va
American Car and Foundry Company
Duquesne Light Company
California Harvests Half A Billion Pounds Of Pacific Fish
California nets about 600 million pounds of Pacific fish each year. A Tibetan rule bans wearing white shoes as it is considered bad luck.
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California
Pacific
Tibet
Andrews Reports on National Insurance Meet
J Leslie Andrews spoke at a luncheon on a Cleveland convention where the national life association now has 45000 members. Gen O Bradley praised life insurers for aiding veterans insurance salvage. The local group now lists 51 paid members under J R Comer as membership chair, with W H Andrews visiting.
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J. Leslie Andrews
High Point Life Underwriters Association
National Association
Cleveland
Ohio
Princess Cafe
George Haralson
Andrews
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
United States
Gen. O Bradley
Veteransinistration
Life Insurance Men of America
J. R. Comer
The
Home Security
W. H. Andrews
Jefferson Standard
Greensboro
National Life Association
Why Portia Walpurgis Night and Poltroon Defined
Answers: a woman lawyer is called Portia from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Walpurgis Night is a witches festival with the devil in the Hartz mountains. poltroon means a coward. Also a note: John C. Breckenridge was the youngest U S vice president.
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Portia
Hartz Mountains
Germany
John C. Breckenridge
United States
London shrines largely restored after wartime damage
A British railways survey finds many of London’s famed literary shrines repaired after the war. Keats House in Hampstead reopened. Samuel Johnson’s house and Dickens’s home in London show minimal to no damage. Some sites like Oliver Goldsmith’s lodgings and Lamb’s birthplace were destroyed.
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Keats
Hampstead
Samuel Johnson
Gew Square
Thackeray
Young Street
Kensington
Oliver Goldsmith
Wine Office Court
Fleet Street
Charles Lamb
Temple
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Queen's House
Cheyne Walk
Rossetti
Whistler
White House
Lindsey House
Charles Dickens
Doughty Square
Carlyle
Chelsea
Hogarth
Chiswick Gardens
Great Britain
Hardest metal known produced as toothpaste paste
Detroit reportage states the hardest substance is formed by a secret blend turned into a toothpaste like paste and extruded through dies to create an almost diamond hard material. The article notes the mysterious ingredients and production method.
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Detroit
INS
Kindergarten at the First Presbyterian Church Sees Interest
Visitors praised the sunny room and equipment at the First Presbyterian kindergarten last week. Mrs. C. Cox, in charge, led an eager group of four year olds, with registrations open for children from four years to school age. church office offers information.
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First Presbyterian Church
Cox
Horse racing a major national betting business in 1945
The sport generated about 1.5 billion dollars annually and drew bets from more than 80 million U S citizens in 1945, reflecting its huge national reach and popularity.
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U. S
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