New Nylon Hose Sparks Big City Sale Frenzy
Women greet postwar nylon hose as Richardson's department store opens after dawn. Five to six hundred crowd Main Street to buy limited supply, with orderly lines and swift service. First postwar nylon hose sale in the area draws notable shoppers and chatter about the end of the war.
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Richardson's Department Store
Main Street
Commerce
John Richardson
Charles F. Carroll
W. H. Hedgecock
Chestnut Street
C. E. Cox
Cassell Street
High Point
Religious period at Woman's College opens with sermon
In Greensboro on Sunday the first University sermon at The Woman's College features Dr. George D. Heaton of Myers Park Baptist Church Charlotte with the topic Our Future Is Now. Heaton will stay on campus Tuesday for discussions and meetings with groups and individuals. The program includes a vesper Sunday night at College Park Baptist Church and a YWCA meeting Monday night. Heaton delivers the convocation address The Sea Is No More. Special music by the college choir.
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Greensboro
George D. Heaton
Myers Park Baptist Church
Charlotte
Woman's College
Eat
Joe
College Park Baptist Church
Heaton
Christian Leadership
YWCA
Demobilized Personnel Records Branch Relocates to St Louis
Miss Juanita Love and Miss Doris Snyder left Sunday for St Louis Missouri to take duties with the Demobilized Personnel Records branch of the War Department recently moved to that city from High Point. NROTC student S F Fortner Jr of Penn State College arrived for a 14 day furlough with his parents at their home 243 Boulevard
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Juanita Love
Doris Snyder
St. Louis
War Department
High Point
Wen S. F. Fortner, Jr
NROTC
Penn State College and
State College
Mrs
S. F. Fortel
Boulevard
Postponed Blithe Spirit to Open Drama Season
The Woman's College play-likers in Greensboro will present Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit next Friday night at Aycock Auditorium, opening the season with an 8 o'clock performance. George Dickieson directs the 21 piece orchestra and W. R. Taylor leads the drama department in this three act comedy about a man haunted by his dead first wife.
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Greensboro
Noel Coward
Woman's College
Aycock Auditorium
George Dickieson
College Theatre
W. R. Taylor
College
Edward Woods Vows Postponed
The wedding of Miss Cora Ed wards of Sophia and George Woods of Winston Salem was postponed. Woods is ill with pneumonia and remains a patient at City Memorial hospital in Winston Salem.
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Cora Edwards
Sophia
George Woods
Winston-Salem
Gospel Tabernacle
Mr. Wood
City Memorial Hospital
Sharp inference on discards in a tense contract bridge play
South drew a sharp conclusion from opponents discard patterns after East backed into two diamonds. West cashed spade ace then led third round while East discarded two diamonds. Declarer played diamond ace and benefited from opponents misconceptions about the diamond king amid a spade and heart coordination uncertainty. The piece notes the peso as Argentina's monetary unit.
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South
North
East
West
Declarer
Custody Bid and Divorce Suit In Municipal Court
Mrs Eva Jones Coltrane seeks custody of five children and divorce from bed and board. She alleges forced separation deed, abuse, and a plan to sell joint personal property. Separate suits: David Padgett challenges High Point city foreclosure on his taxed property. Mollie Mae Sapp files two year separation divorce action. Doris Green Kennerly answers spouse’s divorce suit.
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Eva Jones Coltrane
Joe Lee Coltrane
Nancy Elizabeth Barker
Walter E. Crissman
Mollie Mae
Sapp
Leonard Rufus Sapp
Doris Green Kennerly
Rubber Boom In Brazil As U S Buys War Rubber
Brazil expanded natural rubber output from 16 178 tons in 1940 to 29 408 tons by 1945 with wartime demand. Tire exports rose from 3 600 to 171 990 and tube exports from 300 to 117 608 between 1940 and 1944. US agreements require purchase of Brazil's exportable rubber surplus through June 1947.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Paper Shortage Spurs U.S. Cigarette Paper Makeover
Before the war sharpened trade strains the United States relied on linen rag based cigarette paper. Domestic efforts pivoted to local production to secure supply and reduce dependence on imports.
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Europe
United States
Ameche Heads Los Angeles Pro Football Franchise
Seven notable sportsmen join actor Don Ameche to form ownership of the Los Angeles franchise of the all American professional football league. The group plans to field a team in the 1946 season and includes Louis B. Mayer Bing Crosby Pat O'Brien Benjamin F. Lindheimer Norman W. Church Leo Spitz and Daniel F. Rice among stockholders and officers.
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Los Angeles
Don Areche
Ameche
Louis, B. Mayer
Bing Crosby
Pat O’brien
Benjamin F. Lindheimer
Arlington Park-Washington Park
Norman W. Church
California
Leo Spitz
Daniel F. Rice
Oil Wells in US Surge by War End
At the end of 1944 the United States had about 411000 producing oil wells, roughly double the 1918 count. The wartime demand and oil industry expansion drove the increased well output as the war neared its conclusion.
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United States
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Pertussin
Enor
Carter
Guilford Finance CO
Security Bank Bldg
West Commerce Street
W. Kill
Edward Woods
West Dealer
North-South Vulnerable
Argentina
Mrs. Coltrane
U. S
AP News
Guilford Memorial Park
Joseph P. Smith
Zemo
FEMO
ICE Delivery Company
West Broad Street
Admiralty DS
Islani
Admiralty Isles
Admiraltys
P. X
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
Washington Street
Coke
Coca-Cola
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