Kaiser Yard Sets New Building Record at Portland Shipyard
Oregon Shipbuilding Corp workers set a national record by launching 24 Liberty freighters in September, surpassing the previous 18 ships. Workers endured long hours and fatigue to achieve the pace, while yard officials note this pace won’t continue. The yard plans a Victory model freighter next month.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon Shipbuilding Corp
Columbia River
Les Voshell
Maritime Commission
Lumberman Vern Streeter Sets Pulpwood Record Challenge
Paul Bunyan lore aside, Vern Streeter of Race Michigan chops fifty trees daily and yields 309 sticks of pulpwood after a ten hour shift. Boss Ernie Priest claims the 309 stick tally as a potential lake states record and invites rival cutters from pulpwood camps veneer yards and lumber mills to compete. Also noted areyoung picker George Rupp a Frumly sixteen year old who averages one hundred sticks daily and a brief nod to early talkies in Hollywood.
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Paul
Streeter
Ernie Priest
Lake States
Annd
George Rupp
Frumly, Mich
Jack Benny Returns From Army Camp Tour
Comedian Jack Benny arrives in New York after a 10 week air tour of American army camps in Italy Africa and the Middle East. He jokes that newer motion pictures have not yet been sent to the fighting men noting Iran's films and Francis X Bushman’s popularity. Delaware is called the Diamond State.
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New York
Jack Benny
Italy
Africa
Middle East
Iran
Shirley Emple
Francis X. Bushman
Truth May Be Stranger Than Fiction
A World War One era Dehaviland biplane piloted by Forgan Smith dives low over trees at 5 000 feet as Lt Col Robert Craig anticipates a crash. The crew survives with minor scratches and continues reading a magazine story while a wartime war bond appeal and bird census figures close the item.
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New Guinea
Forgan Smith
Dehaviland
Robert Craig
Cranford
Smitty
Pde
Craig
Smith
Merchant Marine aid drives wartime relief in High Point
Horace Haworth reports that united Seamen's Service, funded by the national war fund, expands to aid merchant mariners with facilities in Tunis and Bizerte and plans to move into Hamburg Genoa Naples and other ports. The drive aims for 107200 and anticipates 200000 officers and men by year end to combat convoy fatigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunis
Bizerte
United Seamen’‘S Service
Sicily
Horace S$. Haworth
Local Chest
United Seamen's Service
National War Relief
High Point
United War Chest
Douglas Falconer
United Seamen’s Service
National War Fund
Hamburg
Bremen
Cherbourg
le Havre
Naples
Genoa
Taranto
Constanza
Athens
Java
Sumatra
Singapore
Saigon
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Bantam Hens Hatch Turkey Eggs in Upsetting Nest
A Seattle youth notes A J Browning's bantam hens hatched five turkey eggs last spring. The newborns crowd the bantams as they try to huddle under their wings, with the poults so large they topple the tiny mothers. The bantam rooster, in contrast, crowing with pride.
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Seattle
A. J. Browning
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Germany
Attu
Rendova
Kiska
Munda
U.S
Great Lakes
Ohio
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Paul Bunyan
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Northwoods
Vern Streeter
Race
Lumbermana
Hollywood
Delaware
Hardy Herrington
California
Times
Reeters
Chesterfields
Teddy
Boy
EFIRD
U.S. Merchant Marine
War Chest
Kid
Oxford
Rover
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